Adding some colour to brush images:

Sometimes you'd really like your brushes to actually be colourful images, right? Sometimes you'd like them not to all be one single colour... So here's my suggestions for adding some life to those single coloured brush images. Hope you like this.

First we start with printing a brush image like this one:

Now create a new layer and then choose some feathured brush. We will be doing some "in between line" colouring so you might want to pick a brush that isn't too large... These are the feathered brushes I meant:

Ok, now in the new layer you added start adding various colours according to the brush shape or just as you see fit. In this case this is what I did:

Now the easiest way to get the colour looking nice is to change the coloured layer's blending mode into "colour". This is the result:

Another option is to run gausian blur on the coloured layer:

And then play with blend modes:

Overlay:

Colour Burn:

And that's about it - simple, yet pretty, no?