Two Tonal Brushes In Photoshop

Hey guys. I'm trying to make a brush in Photoshop, that consists of both black and white. I have this image I drew of a diamond.



As you can see, it's black lines with white fill, transparent background. By default Photoshop will define the brush with the black as the brush, and the white as transparent. What I desperately want is to be able to set it so it will make a brush so when I click the brush tool, it'll brush the image itself, and not just the black lines with transparent fill, so if I were to brush one over another, the one underneath would not have the black lines showing through the one on top.

I hope I've explained this properly. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Try, instead of white, making the white a very faint grey.

 

Yeah, tried that. All it does is make what should be white a very faint, transparent grey... Thanks though. I wasn't sure how much of a response I'd get here. Not really a lot of people here experiment in depth enough to figure this stuff out.

I really don't want to be trecking into Illy right now to figure this sh*t out.

 

I get what you mean, but if Grey's making it transparent still not quite sure what to do.
I'll have a mess about in PS and see if there's anything doable.

Ah no idea.
You can define it as a pattern then fill-pattern. But, it's not going to do it based on colour etc. so preety useless.

Can't think of anything else.

 

Ok, kewl. Basically, I just really wanna set it so I can use the brush tool to set a big scatter and size jitter. I could manually place, rotate and resize each one, but I plan on using about 100+ diamonds

I wouldn't be finished in time for the VonZipper contest.

 

Okay, I've posted this question elsewhere, but any help is still appreciated.

 

try other colour?

 

Nah, it's not the colour that determines the brushes transparency, it's the hue. Light hue = Transparent, Dark hue = Opaque.

 

Invert the image colors(so white is the outline instead), save it as a brush, now brush in what ever you want(probably white) and just add a stroke to the layer(in black) so the black outline appears.

 

Except I want to scatter it, meaning they will overlap, and areas which would otherwise be transparent, will be filled with the original white, meaning they would not be stroked.

 

Yeah your right, I dunno if you wanna do this but you can up the spacing to 50% or more and then add your scatter setting. Just make multiple layers of that with the stroke setting on. If you add jitter it might be a different story but I can imagine you can just up the spacing even more.

Here's and example:
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3091/18198637ct2.gif

 

Yeah, I might have to do that. I'm starting work on it this weekend, so if I haven't found a more simple solution by then, it'll probably what I'll do. Thanks for the input.