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How do I maintain one grain coarseness regardless of brush size in Photoshop.

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September 3, 2023
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How do I maintain one grain coarseness regardless of brush size in Photoshop. The effect should be like drawing with crayons or pastels on grainy paper, a consistent texture created throughout the piece.

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Correct answer forebrain

Maybe these screenshots can help illustrate.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the SO contains a Pattern based on 50% gray and the Filter Add Noise; so scaling the Pattern in the SO and saving will affect all its instances.

@c.pfaffenbichler This is very helpful. I shall follow your steps when I return to this work in the future. Cheers.

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Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, Brush Settings, …) visible?

Depending on the kind of Brush you are using Texture might help.

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Thank you for replying.

I was using self created brush (Coarse Grain 01) to shade.

The effect I need is the look seen in using Kyle's Screentones 38.

Please view attachments.

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You seem to be using a sampled Brush in which the dots are »hard-coded« – that seems not to be what you wish.

Please read up on Texture.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-textured-brushes.html

Edit: One option: