Can Photoshop paint with a repeating image or pattern instead of a normal brush?

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I want to add repeated flower imagery onto a grassy field in Photoshop. Instead of painting with a standard brush color, can I paint using an image so the image repeats as I brush over a larger area? If so, which tool or workflow should I use?

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Photoshop's clone tool essentially paints with an image. It will do exactly what you want. This even works if the source image is not part of the final image.

In your example, take your grassy field image and increase the canvas size, say to put several hundred more pixels along the right hand side. Now paste your pictures of flowers into that section.

Now, just clone from flowers onto the grass.

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Yes. In Photoshop, the most direct tool for this is the Pattern Stamp Tool. Open the flower image, prepare it as needed, then choose Edit > Define Pattern. After that, select the Pattern Stamp Tool, pick your saved pattern, and paint onto the grass; Photoshop will repeat the image/pattern as your stroke covers a larger area.

Another option is the Clone Stamp Tool, which also "paints with an image" by sampling pixels from a source area and copying them where you brush. You can even place the flower source artwork off to the side on an expanded canvas and clone from it into the field.

So if you want a repeating tiled image, use Pattern Stamp. If you want to manually copy sampled flower details from a source image, use Clone Stamp.

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