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. To your question. I know it can be a pain to draw zillions of trees
so it's a good idea to make a tree brush. I only work with gimp, but there it should be no problem to create a brush ("stamp") from your scan. Just cut out the tree (maybe "clean" it a bit with a smooth eraser) and paste it into a new image, that you save as a brush file afterwards (.gbr). Make sure to search the net for some video tutorials on brush creation in gimp (or for photoshop, it should be roughly the same process), since ther may be some settings to be aware of, that i don't have in mind atm. For more variety it might be good to create different tree brushes (4 or 5) so the forests do not look too uniform later.
). Looking forward to see how it works. Keep up the good work!
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