makeshift Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) Hello! When I'm working with an image brush I don't have an easy way of transferring a selection on the canvas to the image of the brush I'm using. I must create a new image brush from selection, change the spacing and other brush settings to the config I had before, and then use it. Or I must load a brush nozzle from file rather than from a selection on the fly. The Photoshop functionality I'm hoping to recapture is a specific function of PS's mixer brush, which could sample not just a tone but also a rasterized chunk on the canvas, which I could instantly use as my brush without losing transfer/size/shape settings. I think such a tool will help users quickly propagate patterns and textures based on the pre-existing imagery of a photo. Edited August 9, 2021 by makeshift Quote
Sapiento Posted August 10, 2021 Posted August 10, 2021 Good idea. Quote www.fantasy-map.net - Where visions become fantasy maps!
iconoclast Posted August 10, 2021 Posted August 10, 2021 Do you mean something like "New Brush from Selection" (in the Burger menu of the Brushes panel)? Quote
makeshift Posted August 10, 2021 Author Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, iconoclast said: Do you mean something like "New Brush from Selection" (in the Burger menu of the Brushes panel)? Yes, but more like "replace image brush with selection" so that I don't have to reconfigure all the brush settings, and so I don't leave behind hundreds of image brushes that I only used once. Edited August 10, 2021 by makeshift Quote
iconoclast Posted August 10, 2021 Posted August 10, 2021 16 minutes ago, makeshift said: Yes, but more like "replace image brush with selection" so that I don't have to reconfigure all the brush settings, and so I don't leave behind hundreds of image brushes that I only used once. I know what you mean. Also GIMP has such a feature: select something on an image, copy it to clipboard, select the certain brush, and you can paint with the data that is on the clipboard. That is a cool feature. The only disadvantage is that, if you copy some other things while you still would need your brush (even if it's no pixel data), the brush will be lost. But I like that feature anyway. Edit: By the way, doesn't the Clone brush even do what you want? Edit again: OK, you can't resize the brush. That's bad. Last Edit: Even that is possible as I found out: "Scale" in the context bar of the Clone Brush. But it's not verry conveniant. makeshift 1 Quote
makeshift Posted August 10, 2021 Author Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, iconoclast said: I know what you mean. Also GIMP has such a feature: select something on an image, copy it to clipboard, select the certain brush, and you can paint with the data that is on the clipboard. That is a cool feature. The only disadvantage is that, if you copy some other things while you still would need your brush (even if it's no pixel data), the brush will be lost. But I like that feature anyway. Edit: By the way, doesn't the Clone brush even do what you want? Edit again: OK, you can't resize the brush. That's bad. Last Edit: Even that is possible as I found out: "Scale" in the context bar of the Clone Brush. But it's not verry conveniant. If I disable "aligned" in Affinity's Clone Tool, I can kind of treat the source as a brush if I click-click-click-click etc. However, I downloaded GIMP and the clipboard brush you describe is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you for suggesting it. Quote
iconoclast Posted August 10, 2021 Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, makeshift said: If I disable "aligned" in Affinity's Clone Tool, I can kind of treat the source as a brush if I click-click-click-click etc. However, I downloaded GIMP and the clipboard brush you describe is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you for suggesting it. Yes, you can only do it by clicking in AfPhoto. Didn't think about it. That's different in GIMP. You can also do it in a painting way there. I really like GIMP. Work with it since years. But it has some limitations. F.e. no CMYK, no adjustment layers, noo selection brush... A really cool additional program for graphic and photo works. But not a full substitute for programs like AfPhoto, I think. Quote
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