I'm relatively new to Photoshop and I need some assistance with brushes please!!

I got these free stitches brushes which are great, but when I use them they're all one colour, right!! [black].
Now how do I colour the brush differently, for example my stitches part of the brush black, but the wound part of the brush a yukky blood or goo colour?
I'm thinking it's prolly something to do with layers and masks but please bear in mind I'm a novice so an "idiot" guide would be appreciated. Oh! CS2 if it matters!
I know about layers but masks are still alien to me!!! [LOL]
TIA!

Unfortunately I don't think you can do this. If you look at a brush, you can see it's just a grayscale image. Where it is black, the brush will lay down the current foreground colour; where white, it is transparent. Shades of grey give the foreground colour at less than 100% opacity.

So AFAIK there is no way to have the brush lay down one colour in some areas and another in different areas (I'd love to be proved wrong though!) What you can do is to paint your stiches on a new layer using the colour you want for the stitch itself. Then you could lock transparency on that layer and with a small round brush paint over the parts you wanted to be another colour (e.g. red). You can do this as much as you like with different colours- locking the transparency will ensure you never paint outside the pixels laid down by the original brush. It's very easy with a tablet.

Well thanx for the reply anyway, I thought it would be easy in CS2!!  Ah well!!
Guess I'll have to do it the hard way then, I will certainly give your method a go though!
Many thanx for that!!!

On my old [and long gone] Amiga with 'Deluxe Paint 5' I could have done that in a snap...we seem to be going backwards...LOL...sounds like that's the technique you'll have to use Gwyn...sigh, I as well was hoping for multi colour brushes....Maybe Corel Painter can do that...have you looked into that app?

Hi Bobby, I just invested haevily on CS2 because it wasn't an upgrade so I'm stuck with it now!
That's not a sleight on it either, I like it loads and because I was a late buyer I get CS3 free too!!!
So it's not all bad news [LOL].

Post one of the images, and give me a quickie guidline of what you wanna achieve. I think I know a good way to do it, and be able to edit later, but I'm not exactly sure it's what you're going for...

Just rough brush strokes would be fine to illustrate your goal - like I said, I think I know how to do it/how you can do it.

Talk to ya soon-
-Lew ;-)

TY!

  Don't ask me how, since I've not gotten into making brushes yet, but I have seen them like that, but I think they're created in some mystical fashion using "styles' techniques. I had and Ivy brush that gave me the "veining" in dark [whatever coulour you picked] while the main part was lighter. Before anyone asks, no, I don't have it any more, but I do remember getting it at Adobe's Share location. Lou.

I'll be interested to see how this develops, too.

I'm slammed all day today, going into 1am, and most of tomorrow - I swear I'll have the technique for you on Monday!
Talk to ya soon-
-Lew ;-)

Hey, no rush, I'm just happy that you're willing to help!  Thanx!!

I often think about using brushes in my work (there are some beautiful ones out there), but I don't because of the color issue.  There are some tuts on colorizing flower brushes, etc., but I'll be interested to hear your techniques.  -Drew

Yeah, me, too.... I've been putting off learning to make brushes for MUCH too long. Lou.

i'd do the brushs on multiple layers (each being the colour i wanted... red orange black...) and mask out the portions i want to hid to allow the underlying parts (colour) to show.

i know, i know, it's easier to see what i mean then to decipher my text!!

like Lew, i'll try to toss up what i mean later this afternoon during lunch or something...

:)
retrocity

retrocity: Hmm, masking is something I'm having trouble figuring out, Yea I know, how dumb can I be right!!  [LOL].
I consider myself to be a relative noob to PS even though I had a copy of 7 for a while. I've purchased CS2 now and am awaiting my free upgrade to CS3 so I figured I need to get to know more about what I'm doing!! [LOL].
Thanx!!

Hey Fixer..... I did the 3 Beta, and I'm not too sure about it, still... if there's a way to "get" it, but hold off installing it, I'd recommend that. One of MY issues with 3, was that it wants even more mem than 2, as well as getting rid of the pallette dock... at first I wasn't too sure about it, in CS2, but I've found it to be very useful, and missed it. the thing I like most about CS2 over earlier versions, is that you can manipulate, and save HUGE images. Lou.

Thanx Archdruid, I'll bear that in mind!!
I've come up against a problem with the upgrade anyway which I won't get into here!

First, I made a brush from your image - Edit>Define Brush Preset> - name it and save.

Then I chose a light pink color - click on the upper color - if you hit "D" then it will go to the default Black and White - click on the Black and choose a color - I chose a light peach - then did all the next Layer Styles, yep - someone above guessed it right.

You can edit ALL of these - note how I chose the specific COLORS for the glows/shadows/contours/etc. Just click on the color box and up will come the color picker.

Now here's the kicker - create a new layer above your "stitches" layer. Hold Alt/Option and click on the line between the stitches and new layer to LINK them. I used a fat green brush, but you should get the idea - anything you paint on the layer will only appear directly atop the filled pixels - NOT the Latyer Styles you see, but the actual filled pixels. This means you can go in and paint the stiches themselves, blood and meat within the open wound - you get the idea - and it won't spill out onto the rest of the canvas.

This means you can use the style to create all the outer effects, and even the bevel and emboss, and hand-paint the inside details.

Lemme know if you were looking for something else and I'll give you another tut.
Hope this helps-
-Lew ;-)

Hmm! So the actual stitches I just paint black at this point is that right??
I'll give it a go later, many thanx!!

Nope - you can pick them to be whatever you want. I picked a light flesh color - you could pick a medium brown for "rope or twine" and adjust the colors of the Layer Styles accordingly/to taste.