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JeffreyW
JeffreyW
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December 3, 2016
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How to create a clone brush

  • December 3, 2016
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I've watched the wonderful classes John Derry instructed for Lynda.com and I had a question concerning clone brushes. I'd like to use other brushes when digital painting with the Mixer Brush cloning action (for example Kyle Webster's great brushes) and was wondering if there was a way to either copy these brushes and convert or create clone brushes from these.

Thx,

Jeff

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    Correct answer davescm

    Trevor,

    After digging into PS a lot more I realized I didn't ask the correct question. The correct question would be, is there a way to convert a regular brush into a mixer brush? If possible, I'd like to take a regular brush, copy it, and then convert it to a mixer brush. Would this be possible?

    Thx


    Hi Jeffrey

    Any of the brushes - including those you make yourself can be used as a mixer brush.

    Select the mixer brush tool :

    Go to the brush panel and select a brush preset

    Select a colour (or Alt click to pick up a colour) and brush away

    Dave

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    davescm
    davescm
    Community Expert
    December 3, 2016

    Jeff
    Sorry if I have misunderstood your question.

    When using the clone stamp tool, or the mixer brush, you can use any of the brush presets including any you have defined or added yourself.

    Dave

      JeffreyW
      JeffreyWAuthor
      Known Participant
      December 4, 2016

      Dave,

      Thx for the reply and my question was as clear as it could've been. In one of the videos, John says that some of his brushes from the tool preset he provides has the crucial Cloner category of brush in it that needs to be used in concert with the Cloning Layer action, which allows one to paint over a photograph and pick up the color from it.

      I've tried using brushes from other tool presets or general brushes and it doesn't pick up the color from the photograph like John's "cloner" brushes do. Hope that clears my question up somewhat.

      Thx

      Trevor.Dennis
      Trevor.Dennis
      Community Expert
      December 4, 2016

      John Derry is known for using tool presets to create his Impasto brushes.  The have .tpl and not .abr extensions.  As you say in your first post, this was using the Mixer brush.  I can't envision how this might apply to the Clone tool though.  Did you have something in mind?  Can you expand on what you'd like to achieve?

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