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July 17, 2025
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Unwanted lines appearing in brush textures

  • July 17, 2025
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When using certain brushes in Photoshop (generally seems to be more pencil/pastel brushes), these lines appear when I go over certain areas of the canvas. It's almost like the brush is tiling itself or that it's highlighting something underneath (when there is nothing underneath).  I've tried every suggestion I can find online and from the Adobe chat robot, including changing spacing/scattering, having dual brush turned off, etc. I've attached an image that shows what happens; this is literally just from me drawing a patch of texture with a downloaded pencil brush and the lines just appear as if I'm doing a brass rubbing or something.

 

This has been an ongoing issue for YEARS (and always has been for these particular brushes). Has anyone had a similar issue or can anyone suggest any fixes?

Correct answer davescm

A good question.
What you would need to do is make a pattern that tiles, based on the existing pattern in the brush then save a new brush with the existing pattern replaced.

To do that try this :

In brush settings turn off all controls (untick all the boxes) except texture.
Make the brush 50% grey
In Texture set scale to 100%, Brightness 0 contrast 0 , Texture each tip of Blend mode multiply (you may need to experiment with brightness and contrast
On a white canvas paint with the edited brush ( brush mode normal, Flow 100%, opacity 100%)
You should see the pattern repeated across the canvas


Now crop the image to the one pattern (deleting cropped pixels)
Use filter 'Offset' and move the image to the right and down so that one of the corners is now in the centre.
Use the clone brush or spot healing brush to heal the nasty transition
When done, use filter offset again to move the pattern back to its original position
you can check the tiling using view pattern preview.

 

Once you are happy save the pattern using edit Define pattern.

Now go back to your original brush (the unedited version) and under textures select your new pattern. Save the brush as a new brush 

 

Dave

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Glenn 8675309
Glenn 8675309
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July 17, 2025

What exact bruhses does this occure with?

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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July 17, 2025

Does the brush have a built in texture? You can check in brush settings - if texture is ticked it does.

If so, it looks like whoever has made the brush has made it with a non-tiling texture pattern i.e. a pattern that is not seamless when tiled across an area.

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    J C26757553mqc9Author
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    July 17, 2025

    Hi Dave, thanks for your quick response! Yes, it does have a built in texture, so that must be the issue. Do you know of any way to resolve this/edit the brush myself to make it more seamless?

    davescm
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    davescmCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    July 17, 2025

    A good question.
    What you would need to do is make a pattern that tiles, based on the existing pattern in the brush then save a new brush with the existing pattern replaced.

    To do that try this :

    In brush settings turn off all controls (untick all the boxes) except texture.
    Make the brush 50% grey
    In Texture set scale to 100%, Brightness 0 contrast 0 , Texture each tip of Blend mode multiply (you may need to experiment with brightness and contrast
    On a white canvas paint with the edited brush ( brush mode normal, Flow 100%, opacity 100%)
    You should see the pattern repeated across the canvas


    Now crop the image to the one pattern (deleting cropped pixels)
    Use filter 'Offset' and move the image to the right and down so that one of the corners is now in the centre.
    Use the clone brush or spot healing brush to heal the nasty transition
    When done, use filter offset again to move the pattern back to its original position
    you can check the tiling using view pattern preview.

     

    Once you are happy save the pattern using edit Define pattern.

    Now go back to your original brush (the unedited version) and under textures select your new pattern. Save the brush as a new brush 

     

    Dave

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