intensity brushes with different greyscales

[Frances Proctor]

Hi all maybe this has been asked before but I couldn't find it But I would like to create an intesity brush using different greyscales so that when painting with the brush you would get different shades or saturations of the colour so say a brush made from 3 dots one black one a dark to mid grey tone and one with a lighter grey would yeild a brush that when you painted with it  in your chosen colours say a brown tone you would get a brush that painted in three shades of brown based on the greytones in the brush texture.  Is this currently possible?

[Alfred]

When you create an Intensity Brush the different grey tones determine the opacity (black = fully opaque, white = fully transparent) which would give the effect of different shades when painting on a neutral background, but it sounds as though you want different shades at full opacity. I’m afraid I don’t know of a way to achieve the latter.

[Frances Proctor]

When I create an intensity brush using the "create brush from selection" method all shades of grey create the same opacity level when I use the export png create new intensity brush method then it works as you describe.  hmmm......  I'm using the latest release version, perhaps I've found a bug?  I think I will test this out further in the current beta and see what I find.  if it still happens in the beta I'll post full steps and screenshots in that forum

In the meantime,  yes I was hoping that there was a way to create the brush so grey scales could be set to saturation values instead  for example black would be fully saturated and white would  be fully desaturated.   but I suppose could get the results I'm after by creating full colour image brushes