How to make a seemless pattern brush?

[nahkeri]

Hello, I started working on a brush to make an endless braid. I made the outline match up at both ends, defined a brush and tweaked settings to make it the right spacing and angle. it works well when i make a straight braid, but when i make a line that is not straight, the brush is not seemless anymore. I wonder if there are any settings that can fix this? I know it's possible in other programs, wondering if photoshop has an option like this too. I want to use this for drawing in photoshop so unless there is some way to transfer Illustrator brushes into photoshop, I'm not interested in making an Illustrator pattern brush.

[Guest]

Could try this out. It sort of worked for me but it may or may not depending on what the pattern is and how the "edges" line up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0IG2x2wPc

[@mj]

Hi nahkeri,

1. Based on the capture you share, create just one pair of 'leaves' and define that as your brush.
2. Then go to brush settings and adjust the spacing control till you get the offest that you need.
3. For straight strokes, click once at the start position, release you mouse, then holding Shift click again. Ps will draw a straight line between the two clicks.

hth

.mj

[nahkeri]

Tried this but it's still not perfect for not straight lines.
https://i.imgur.com/L3af0US.png

[@mj]

This resource may help https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-brushes/make-brushes/

[c.pfaffenbichler]

»I want to use this for drawing in photoshop so unless there is some way to transfer Illustrator brushes into photoshop, I'm not interested in making an Illustrator pattern brush.«

But I am afraid that would be the currently most prudent approach within Adobe’s suite of software. 

Photoshop cannot bend a Brush-tip itself along a brushstroke so far, Illustrator can. 

[nahkeri]

Perhaps it would, but I don't really use Illustrator, just wanted to make my drawing in photoshop a bit easier with this brush.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Then you may want to at least use the shortest possible component as a Brush tip instead of a long aggregation of more or less identical elements. 

[nahkeri]

Did that and it's better but still doesn't really work unfortunately for curves. I guess I'll just have to do it by hand or use it and them fix all the mistakes.
Looks like this now: https://i.imgur.com/L3af0US.png