Hello and welcome to this video tutorial today we're looking at creating a sort of scatter brush
effect with a multi-colored brush in Adobe Photoshop what I want to be able to do is to paint
this flower into a document now there are some limits to this we cannot rotate the flower but
apart from that it works reasonably well so I have this flower isolated so it's got a transparent
background I'm going to create a document in which I'm going to be working 1920 by 1080 I am
using RGB color mode it is also a transparent background image that's pretty important for the
way we're working I'm going to take this flower layer and just drop it into my working image
and scale it down because it's way too big for me I'll just place it out of the way over here
I'll add a new layer because I want to paint onto a new layer I'm going to select the mixer brush so
underneath the brush tool is the mixer brush tool now I'm going to select a brush to use it with
now if you don't have access to a brush to use you can always go and get the old legacy brushes
click the fly out menu here and go down to legacy brushes and you can restore the legacy brush set
to the list of brushes I seem to have a brush that I can use here so I'm going to choose this soft
round brush to use as my mixer brush it's pretty big it is too big I'm just going to scale it down
so it fits around the edge of my flower comfortably you can do this using the open
and close square bracket keys or you can come in here and just adjust it this way
You will want to set this brush to 100 hardness so if it was soft before
just make it hard that's really important we're going to sample this flower here but because it's
on a layer underneath we need to make sure that sample all layers is selected here we also need
to make sure that in this custom area custom is probably set by default for you - select
dry heavy load we need to get a full load of paint - this flower as our paint onto the brush
I'm going to hold down the ALT key (Option on a Mac) and click on the flower to select it - you
should see it appearing up here in this dialog and now I can just paint it into my document
so just click to paint you can paint it a little bit more scientifically if you go to the brushes
option here so you can spread it out so we can spread it out we could also use some shape
dynamics the size jitter is actually not going to work here it just comes in at the same size
but you can change the scattering so you could have it scatter a bit more let me just show you
what that's going to look like let's add another blank layer on top of the document and let's just
scatter this through so I'm just painting and the flowers are just going in in any old location
as I mentioned this brush won't rotate so you can't rotate the flowers around I'm just going
to take another sampling of this brush see if I could do a slightly better job
making sure that the edges of the flowers are all there if I want smaller flowers
at this point I can reduce the size of the brush and I will get smaller flowers so I
could paint different size flowers here by just varying the size of the brush
Now there is one more option that you may want to consider in terms of filling a document with these
flowers and that is to set this up as a pattern so I'm going back to my original flower document
I'm going to make this into a pattern with edit define pattern just going to call this blue flower
and click ok I'm going back to my document I'm going to turn off all these layers I'm
going to add a new empty layer in which I can work I'll choose edit and then fill I've got
pattern selected here I'm going to click here on script and I'm going to choose random fill
and then I'm going to choose my pattern which is going to be the last in my patterns dialog
and click ok. Now I get my random fill dialog here and you can determine the settings that you want
here so you may want no color randomness so I'm going to dial that back down so the flowers are
going to be applied to this document with the exact color that they originally had I'm also
going to remove any randomness of brightness but I can adjust the scale so I can make them
bigger or smaller I can also adjust the minimum scale so they're going to have some variety some
larger flowers some smaller flowers and then the density I'll just click ok and the document is
filled with these flowers not very satisfactorily so what we would do is just undo that and go and
repeat it and repeat it until we get a result that we like so here I'm going to increase
the density quite a bit because I didn't get a very dense effect last time let's just click ok
it's getting better it's still not there you could also put a second layer on top
of this so you could just go and repeat the approach that you took
to add another layer on top and maybe after two or three layers you'll have
the look that you want in terms of a pattern fill of these flowers
in this case you will notice that the flowers are rotating so you can see here that this flower is
this direction but it's over in this direction here so that pattern fill does rotate the flowers
but you have limited control in terms of where the flowers are actually appearing in the document
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