Can't Use Custom Brush with Pencil Tool

[NoshiC]

Hi all. First time here, and I'm not particularly a Photoshop expert...

I've created a brush from a three pixel pattern that I can use either with the Brush tool or the Pencil too. That's great. But when I went to define a second brush preset (albeit days later in a new file), my new preset only works with the Brush Tool and not the Pencil tool. ...which is bizarre because I believe I did the same thing? Anti-aliasing is turned off, I made the defined preset using the pencil tool...

What's more is that when I tried to recreate my first brush, the same thing happened. So, it seems I can no longer make presets that work for both the Brush tool and the Pencil tool.

If you can see it, there is a tiny little dot in the darker drawing. That's what my second preset turns to when I use the pencil tool.

The reason why I want to do this is because I'm working on pixel art, and I want to use it as a stamp that modifies each time I click (you know...jittered angles and such), but I can't use the Brush Tool because it shouldn't have anti-aliasing.

Aplogies if I place this in the wrong topic or something~

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post a meaningful screenshot that includes both the Brushes Panel and the Brush Settings Panel. (edited)

[davescm · Accepted solution]

When you created your brush did you check "Include tool settings" which would default the brush to whichever tool you were using at the time?

If you did, you can create a new brush preset without that checked or you can Ctrl+Alt+Click on any brush to load it without switching tools

Dave

[NoshiC]

Thank you.

[davescm]

You're welcome 🙂

Dave

[Luke24870688zjtq]

where are those in 23.4 they don't show up for me when I create a brush

[c.pfaffenbichler]

You seem to be using Edit > Define Brush Preset, not creating a Brush via the Brushes Panel. 

[Trevor.Dennis]

Myy prefered method is to right click inside the document window with the brush/pencil tool selected, and click on the little cog icon in the top right corner.  That opens a menu that has New Brush Preset at the top.

That opens the required dialog box. 

Note: you can do this with any of the tools that use these presets: Brush, Pencil, Eraser, Clone, Blur, Smudge, Dodge, Burn etc.  I often find a square eraser preset is good for getting into corners for instance.

You can select a preset and keep the selected tool, by holding down Ctrl/Cmd key

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Edit > Define Brush Preset 

New Brush Preset from the Brushes Panel’s flyout menu (edit: or the »Create new brush«-button)