Make Any Image a Brush Alpha | Blender 2.8

I've always wondered. Is there a way to downscale the brush texture itself. Say I want a pore texture, but when I'm pulling the brush out, it appears super big when I want the pores to be small. Is there anyway to make that happen?

Super helpful man. Love your channel!

Incredibly helpful content on the blender alpha brush settings and use. There's not enough content or instruction tutorials on this tool that's easy to find. A couple, but not as much as low poly modeling. Thank you so much for this!

i have a question about materialize, how do i install properly, it seems like just extracting activates it, is it ok too extract it then drag it too my desktop and open it from there fine? its a weird install I'm confused. also I'm kind of worried about the 8bit photo's thing, i only have affinity photo do you think i can use affinity too upscale 8bit too 32 bit like you said? other than that really helpful video thank you.

amazing, thank you so much!

Thanks for the video, it has helped me quickly surface texture I had started in Blender, as my first full project in Blender. I was wondering, what could be done (or should be done) if a texture added starts showing "borders" as well as the texture on the surface of the sculpt? Is this a size, quality of image or other issue I don't know about? Thanks.

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Could I do this with scales on a dinosaur?

I see you didn't retopologize. If I wanted to apply some sort of texture say, to a face I sculpted, could I just go ahead and use this technique or would I have to still retopologize.

Anyway to define an alpha mid grey that darker parts push into and light parts pop out the surface?

Why do mine sometimes repeat as textured circles?

I come to learn stuff I leave as if I was in a spa. Calm, straight to the point, amazing teacher. As always great tut! 5 stars

i did not know materialize was a thing until today

Can I do this with hard surfaces?

Since I'm a newbi, I don't think I am ready for that one yet, but it is nice to know something like that is available

Hello Grant, first of all thank you for the good tutorial. I have a little problem, maybe you can help me. As soon as I go to "Multires" and then Subdivde, then square edges become round. Can I somehow prevent that they become round? I have built a column, and would like to decorate it this way, but now it is no longer a column, but an egg-like object. :D

Well, this is what I call a game changer :O

You can certainly learn things from Mr. Abbitt, but he's so mellow that I often put him on when I'm going to sleep. XD

Hmmm, Materialize doesn`t let me save any map. Any ideas? Ok got in the moment I wrote this. You have to type in the ending by your own (jpg, png etc)

I know its pretty old, but this seems to be the video that helped me the most. Is this similar to making a texture paint brush ?

I don't get it, it seems that you just blur the hell out of a greyscale image to get it to work. But what if I want very hard/sharp edges as well from the brush?

great tutorial but when I try this it acts like a normal brush so it shows as I move the brush across the mesh, not like a stamp that stays in place and gets more refined as you drag out like yours is doing. what am I missing? I'm using 2.90 if that makes a difference.

are you ever meant to apply the multires mod? or is it best just to never apply it - my mac runs very slow when i use it, so scared to crash and lose it all if i apply it, great content brother! thank you

Excellent, thanks. I've been looking for this.

Thanks man i was needed that tutorial

Tip: Also you can adjust Auto smooth under Stroke to refine the look

Great tutorial, thanks!

I think that's the best, fastest thing I've ever learned on Blender that has an insanely huge impact. Thank you so much

Thanks, such an important video this. Something I always wanted to know.

Wow! You know everything, thank you for this great tutorial, xxx jess

Hello Grant, is it possible to make a normal map image as a brush alpha in Blender? thanks :)

Import export import export import export ok lets start sculpting. I got older watching this, (I am gonna do it tho!)

Why u resulution is soooo good? :(

why are my textures in circles when i use my own textures?

thank you...

multiresing/subdividing my bust mesh 5 times destroys my pc tho :(

one question; can I rotate the alpha in blender sculpt mode?

thank you so much for this tutorial and the Materialize app, so much fun!

If im making a game asset or character ,is it better to us it while sculpting or after retopo ?

This is amazing! Great tutorial

Before I could do this but now even if I put the texture nothing happens can you help me?

Thank you for sharing your GREAT explaining.

Never use your tools like that's shown in this video! Don't create problems for yourself.

Thanks Grant! I'd been painstakingly hand drawing cracks and bumps into rocky surfaces for hours and wondered if this was possible. Time saver! Very well explained. Thanks mate.

Very helpful thanks!

nice. thanks for this

I am struggling to find a nice alternative for Materialize. I cannot use this unfortunately as I work on an iMac. Can't really find an alternative after hours of searching. :( Any ideas? (Crazy Bump does not work on MacOS 10.15)