That did the trick. I created several patterns for various types of rocks, gravel, flowers, grass, etc. I opened a new PSD with a transparent background, changed the brush tip to something larger and selected a pattern from the pulldown box along the top edge. Eeverything else went as planned, painting the area in question, selecting the layer and flattening, it all worked great. The only item that I wonder about now is the organization of the brushes, and patterns, is there a proper way to create folder of brushes and patterns so I can track them by customer or project? Thanks to all for the help.

Vince