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I've just created a few "brush from a selection" but whatever I create will only draw in the color of whatever I selected to make the brush. What am I doing wrong?  

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Hi @PafCaf,

You created an Image Brush. Image brushes use the colors and basically the entire image or what you have selected. I think you need to select New Round Brush from the Brushes Panel menu.

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Try making a New Intensity Brush. You will first need to export the "selection" (as a .png) and use that file for the new intensity brush.

17 hours ago, PafCaf said:

I've just created a few "brush from a selection" but whatever I create will only draw in the color of whatever I selected to make the brush. What am I doing wrong?  

 

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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19 hours ago, PafCaf said:

I've just created a few "brush from a selection" but whatever I create will only draw in the color of whatever I selected to make the brush. What am I doing wrong?  

You created an Image Brush when you really wanted an Intensity Brush. An Intensity Brush can be created in the very same way, except a Mask instead of a Pixel must be the source object. (The created brush will be misleadingly named as an Image Brush, though, until you rename it.)

An object can be converted to a Mask by the Rasterise To Mask command. A Mask can be viewed as a greyscale image by alt/opt-clicking it in the Layers panel.

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Thanks Old Bruce, and everyone else who responded. I was able to create a new brush from a PNG that painted in any color I chose. I appreciate the help!

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