In Photoshop you can create heavily customized brushes, but there's one limit to them—they must be saved in grayscale. It's because the program converts various shades of gray to various shades of transparency. But what if you didn't care about transparency? What if you wanted to paint with fully colored... strawberries? It is actually possible!
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