[Koops12]

This tutorial will show you an easy way to fill up a layer with the sparks brush. This tutorial, although shown as a sig, is mainly to save time on larger pieces. You can use this tutorial for any brush really, I chose to examplify the sparks brush because of its versitility and popularity.


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First off, make sure Sparks is your selected brush.


Start with your image or layer that you wish to fill.


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Zoom all the way out.


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Go over the image using the free select tool.


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If you go over it enough, it will look something like this.


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Edit -> Stroke Selection
Make sure to click "Stroke with a paint tool."


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It should now look somewthing like this.


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Go over the emptier spots with the paintbrush and you're done.

[XyllyX]

That's a very interesting thing to know. Not sure what I'd use it for, but I shall file it away in my mental "toolbox of techniques". I can see how it would be especially useful with pipe brushes like the sparks brush. It essentially turns them into a random pattern.

I am moving this to official.

[Koops12]

Thanks for making this official. :w:

[^Eragon^]

A very interesting technique... but on slower machines, it takes just as long to do this as it does to just brush around manually...

[Darkburger]

Hmm, good idea, with other brush pipes, your right, it would save time on larger images.

Stashed away in my mental bank :w: