[twinbee]

I have a been a long time user of classic art programs such as Deluxe Paint on the Amiga, or Artgem on the PC and have only recently accustomed myself to Photoshop.

Although much weaker in power than Photoshop in general, the aforementioned art programs are still flexible and also faster than Photoshop for day to day operations such as drawing circles or applying effects

And unless I'm sorely mistaken, I find that there's an essential feature they have that Photoshop lacks.

A CUSTOM BRUSH FUNCTION

It's so obvious, but I can't pick up a colour brush easily and start painting with it. It's very handy for jut quickly moving one object to another section, or for simply painting with it smoothly at intervals, to get a 'chain' or snaking effect.

Obviously, it gets much better - you can flip the brush, rotate it, and generally manipulate it, the same as you would with an image, except that you can paste immediately at wherever the cursor is positioned, so that it's MUCH easier to get results quickly and efficiently.

So what am I missing? Has the whole world gone mad, or have I missed this feature in Photoshop (despite spending a couple of hours searching on the net). With all those programmers, I can't believe ONE didn't think of adding this brush feature.

I'll stop now, before I begin a rant.

[Raven12388]

you can edit the brushes that are there and make custome ones your self you can also download many custom brushes for free on the interweb you can allso buy brush liberies.

i believe if you use photoshop enough and do alot of tutorials you will relise for a genral paint program and much more

[Etheryte]

Photshop has dozens of functions dedicated barely to brushes. Don't cry for missing out on something you barely didn't notice.

[twinbee]

I'd love to be proven wrong on this. Because despite PS's speed, I could really get to love it.

Okay, so just to show we're talking along the same lines, can you pick up a brush in full colour (not mono), with full alpha component (translucency), and immediately start to freehand draw with it using the brush tool?

If so, I'm dying to know how (and I'm hoping it's simple).

[Raven12388]

well just add a layer over the image and set the opacity to the requiard level and color away thats the way i would do it

[rachjm]

I think this might be what you're looking for?

http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/tutorials/creating/

[Etheryte]

[twinbee]

Well, I'm sad not to have been proven wrong so far. PS may really be as frustrating as I feared...

[Raven12388]

well say you have a image that you want to say snake, is not right clicking the layer duplicating it and moving the new layer to where you want it just as easy as right clicking the image and pressing paste over and over again ?? and not much harder than just clicking your mouse button to use a brush ??

im not sure but i think your right you cant make full color brushes but there are ways to get the effects you want with out them using clone stamp marquee tool and copy and paste wich will create the layers for you.

mabey adobe just thinks this feature is not needed when the effects can be created with other tools.

regarding fliping and resizing multimpls of the same image well edit/transform should help with that

[Etheryte]

Seriously, Twinbee. What do you expect us to do? Lay down what takes years to learn and master in a single post?
I am too lazyass and my time is limited here, so I won't bother starting.
About monotone:

This is a single pull with brush tool, no effects or such applied. The features are all there, just search them up.

[twinbee]

[Etheryte]

If you had eyes, you would see it's not monotone. I don't have time to explain this all for you.
Sidenote: You can rotate your brush.
I won't bother explaining anything, because I already see you're minded against Photoshop and there's hardly anything I can do about that.
Point: If You can't bare learning to know the program for an hour (which is what it generally takes me to learn the basics of a new art program) before going complaining on the forums, don't go into digital art.

[Isick]

Guys stop. Twinbee the reason no REAL photoshop user cares about not having multi chromatic brushes is because every expert in the field doesn't NEED a mult chromatic brush. The reason Photoshop is so much more popular than every other program out there is because it has ONLY those effects, filters, tools, and abilities that are NEEDED, nothing more and NOTHING less.

I used to use Paint Shop Pro and when I first made the switch to Photoshop, I admit, I hated some things about Photoshop. They were missing some things Paint Shop Pro had and I was reluctant to swtich. But after about a month it became painfully clear to me that Photoshop really didn't lack anything useful, it was only missing a couple shortcuts here and there, but the overall power of Photoshop was far greater.

If I may make a simple analogy to explain what I mean. Imagain Paint Shop Pro (PSP) has 20 tools each bound to a different key. Now Photoshop (PS) has 80 tools. Obviously it cannot bind every tool to a key so it choses only the most frequently used ones and binds those. Now when I start using it I noticed that my brush key is not bound so I say "Gosh Photoshop was foolish to not incoporate this as a bound function" when I completely ignore the fact that it has 60 more tools to chose from AND that all it takes for me to use this brush tool is one extra step.

If you don't like photoshop then don't use it, but realise that by not being familiar with it you will be excluding yourself as a potential employee from virtually every design related job out there.

[twinbee]

[Isick]

Yes I am sure. I have used almost every free and shareware program out there from Gimp to MS Paint, to imageforge, flash, to explogen, to neopaint, to zbrush, to PSP and PS. You name it I probably used it at one point in my life and I can honestly say that Photoshop is the most comprehensive and powerful tool out there.

How do I know that I don't need it? How about because I don't use it, I have never said Gosh I wish I could paint more than one color with a brush, you know why? because there is no need to do that. If I want a specific brush I will make it, draw with it, and color it later. All you save from panting with more than one color is about the 5 minutes it would take to color change it later.

And I am sorry, but thinking that by adding a multi chromatic brush option that Photoshop would then be able to remove other tools is completely foolish. My whole point is that Photoshop allows for everything to be done by using a combination of tools and does not waste time making tools task specific which sounds exactly the sole purpose of a multi chromatic brush option.

If you can make any brush in any color (which photoshop can) then, if you know what you're doing, you will be able to make any brush in EVERY color (which photoshop can). If you would like me to explain how I could, but you should not knock Photoshop for not having a checkable box. Having the power to do it is good enough for me.