Gradient-like brush?

Not sure how to do this: I would like to set up a brush which would produce strokes close to white in the center, grading to color of choice (say, cyan) and then fading to background color (say, black) toward the edges. A halo-like effect. I can do it in several steps but I wonder if it could be done all at once. Not that familiar with the more arcane mysteries of Photoshop, and would appreciate any advice.

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Not sure how to do this: I would like to set up a brush which would produce strokes close to white in the center, grading to color of choice (say, cyan) and then fading to background color (say, black) toward the edges. A halo-like effect. I can do it in several steps but I wonder if it could be done all at once. Not that familiar with the more arcane mysteries of Photoshop, and would appreciate any advice.

Hi,

Here is one possibility:

Create new empty layer.
Select the ellipse tool and set the options to circle - or not if you want them in perspective.
Place circles or ellipses everywhere you want there to be halos. Stroke the paths with a brush shape you want the halos to look like - it doesn't matter what color you choose.
Select the styles for that layer.
Set the fill opacity to zero.
Set the color overlay to the middle halo color.
Set the outer and inner glow blend modes to normal.
Use the color, spread and size settings of outer and inner glow to control halo distribution and color.
Use the quality settings and choke, spread, size to define a falloff profile.

This method give you a middle color (color overlay) and two outer colors (inner and outer glow).
I'm not happy with the method but someone else will probably have a better way. If I had more time to play around with it I think I could come up with something better.

Good luck with your project,
Ron

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Not sure how to do this: I would like to set up a brush which would produce strokes close to white in the center, grading to color of choice (say, cyan) and then fading to background color (say, black) toward the edges. A halo-like effect. I can do it in several steps but I wonder if it could be done all at once. Not that familiar with the more arcane mysteries of Photoshop, and would appreciate any advice.

You just need to create anything you want on screen, then convert (assign) to brush then you have it.

The color will be a single_color's with darker/lighter tone. IOW, if you set the color to

RED - then you will have WHITE in middle then RED at the edge BLUE - WHITE in middle and BLUE at the edge
BLACK - WHITE in middle and BLACK at the edge

So here is a basic steps

1. Create/draw whatever you want to brush to be on screen.

2. Tell Photoshop to assign as BRUSH then you have it.

I don't have Photoshop running at the moment to know exactly where the command is, but it's possible.

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Not sure how to do this: I would like to set up a brush which would produce strokes close to white in the center, grading to color of choice (say, cyan) and then fading to background color (say, black) toward the edges.

It is something photoshop was designed to do.

Let's first create a custom brush do you don't modify an existing one. Create a shape for the brush - for example, use the marquee to make a long, narrow rectangle.
Fill it with any color.
Press Control-C (to copy the image shape)
Then select Brushes from the tool palette.
Under menu Edit, take Define Brush Preset. Give it any name you like.

Okay, you now have a custom shape to work with.

Open the Brushes Window. (Window - Brushes)
Select your custom brush.
Look to the left. All those options!
Try this: Click on the Color Dynamics box, then click on Color Dynamics an play with the sliders.
Do the same with Other Dynamics.

Now paint using that brush.
Cool, eh? Play with the color palette and other brush dynamics.

I hope you find that an attractive enough approach to pursue it further using Help Brushes.

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Not sure how to do this: I would like to set up a brush which would produce strokes close to white in the center, grading to color of choice (say, cyan) and then fading to background color (say, black) toward the edges.

It is something photoshop was designed to do.

Let's first create a custom brush do you don't modify an existing one. Create a shape for the brush - for example, use the marquee to make a long, narrow rectangle.
Fill it with any color.
Press Control-C (to copy the image shape)
Then select Brushes from the tool palette.
Under menu Edit, take Define Brush Preset. Give it any name you like.
Okay, you now have a custom shape to work with.

Open the Brushes Window. (Window - Brushes)
Select your custom brush.
Look to the left. All those options!
Try this: Click on the Color Dynamics box, then click on Color Dynamics an play with the sliders.
Do the same with Other Dynamics.

Now paint using that brush.
Cool, eh? Play with the color palette and other brush dynamics.
I hope you find that an attractive enough approach to pursue it further using Help Brushes.

screenshot examples of brush customizing
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1555427759&size= o and
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1554073856&size= o

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:44:41 -0500, "KatWoman" wrote:

"pico" <pico.pico.pico> wrote in message

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Not sure how to do this: I would like to set up a brush which would produce strokes close to white in the center, grading to color of choice (say, cyan) and then fading to background color (say, black) toward the edges.

It is something photoshop was designed to do.

Let's first create a custom brush do you don't modify an existing one. Create a shape for the brush - for example, use the marquee to make a long, narrow rectangle.
Fill it with any color.
Press Control-C (to copy the image shape)
Then select Brushes from the tool palette.
Under menu Edit, take Define Brush Preset. Give it any name you like.
Okay, you now have a custom shape to work with.

Open the Brushes Window. (Window - Brushes)
Select your custom brush.
Look to the left. All those options!
Try this: Click on the Color Dynamics box, then click on Color Dynamics an play with the sliders.
Do the same with Other Dynamics.

Now paint using that brush.
Cool, eh? Play with the color palette and other brush dynamics.
I hope you find that an attractive enough approach to pursue it further using Help Brushes.

screenshot examples of brush customizing
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1555427759&size= o and
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1554073856&size= o

This is not the first time you've done this, Kat. You post links to a page that doesn't allow viewers to see the content. Permission is required to view the page.

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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL