How to make brush tool alternate between the foreground and background color?

Question

I'm trying to make a tree graphic with two different color leaves, red and yellow. I downloaded a free brush set from Adobe with a leaf brush.

I've tried using the Brush Settings Color Dynamics settings but it's not working. It either seems to be mixing the two colors or giving me a whole range of colors I don't want. This is something I was able to do easily in previous versions of PS (using the 22.5.1 release version now) but can't seem to do in my current version.

Help!

Trevor.Dennis · Answer

Note: brush spacing is set to 50% in this example, meaning each application overlaps the last by exactly half the brush size.

Note also: Apply per tip, causes the jitter to work as the brush is moved. Without that it would swap colours every time you start a new stroke.

Same thing with jitter set to Penpressure. I should have reduced brush spacing for this!

And lastly to Fade. I have reduced spacing to 5%

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