(Help) Trying to create pixel perfect hard-edged brushes

Report · Mar 10, 2023

Hi there! I'm new to Adobe Capture. I downloaded the software on my iPad after hearing about its function of using images to create brushes for Photoshop and Fresco. I was planning to use that feature to create a specific type of halftone brush(es). The first brush I made was super easy and worked fine, it was only one pixel wide and black in color. I made the image on a different app with a pixel art feature, then imported it into Capture. When I tried to make my next brush, something odd happened. I made a brush that was 2 by 2 pixels, with only 2 of those 4 pixels being colored in with black. The image automatically blurs when I try to make it into a brush. I tried upscaling it, same problem. I would like this brush to only show up in color in the black spots. Does anyone know how I could go about doing that? Do I need to make the transparent spots of the aforementioned brush white instead of alpha?

Report · Mar 20, 2023

I haven't tested it (I'll try a bit later) but know that brushes can only be black and white if you intend to use them with either Fresco or Photoshop. (the colour is added in the stroke options of your chosen app).
see this article about creating brushes for Photoshop (same constrains apply to create brushes for Fresco, they are basically the same, Fresco don't support ALL the features of Photoshop brushes)

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-brushes/make-brushes/

(created with photoshop or Capture, the constrains are the same)

See that previous answer and see if that helps 🙂
https://community.adobe.com/t5/fresco-discussions/how-to-download-pixel-brushes-from-capture-to-fres...

PS: Did you know you have a capture module in Photoshop?

Check your libraries panel:

and choose "extract from image"