Let's share our hate of forests

[ThomasR]

When the client says that he'd want another style for the forest, you can start to fear for your sanity (especially if you had just finished all the forests of the map). I've come to hate another type of forest : the one where you could make a brush for the individual tree, change the pace of the brush and start drawing your forest border but you cannot because of overlapping lines. So you draw your individual tree, add a white background on the layer just below, blend the layers, select your tree, copy it and paste it to move it at the right place about 10 000 times. No wrist pain in this, just long soul crushing days.

PS : if someone has another way, share it, it'll help everybody

[Josiah VE]

When the client says that he'd want another style for the forest, you can start to fear for your sanity (especially if you had just finished all the forests of the map). I've come to hate another type of forest : the one where you could make a brush for the individual tree, change the pace of the brush and start drawing your forest border but you cannot because of overlapping lines. So you draw your individual tree, add a white background on the layer just below, blend the layers, select your tree, copy it and paste it to move it at the right place about 10 000 times. No wrist pain in this, just long soul crushing days.

PS : if someone has another way, share it, it'll help everybody

Why don't you make a brush with the center of the tree being white? Then once you're done that turn it to a multiply layer or something for the shading and colour. Wouldn't that work?
Why don't you post a picture so we can give better feedback?