Using a pattern,  apply it with brushes?

What Adobe product are you using?  Photoshop? Illustrator?

You posted in the ColdFusion forum.  You should repost your question in the Photoshop forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop

Maybe one of the moderators will even move the thread over there for you.

-Carl V.

Moving the discussion to Photoshop forum.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

You can use the pattern stamp tool, which works like the clone stamp, but it samples your pattern.  This isn't like using a brush to apply one pattern, but more like the clone stamp that brushes on a pattern in increments - depending upon the size of the brush.

There is also a host of Deco scripts that you can use to fill an area.  You can select a variety of styles from brick, crossweave, spiral, etc.  You can access these by going to Edit>Fill then selecting pattern for the fill type, then select "Scripted Patterns."  There is a drop down list of scripts to use.  Since they're written in javascript, you can create your own patterns.  With the CS6, you need to edit the script if you want to change the way the patterns are placed.  I wrote a script that does this for you, and you can download it and the instructions at:

http://uebelephoto.com/CS6_Fill.html

Hi and welcome to the Photoshop forum.

There are several ways to use Patterns, but as far as I know, the paint brush is not one of them.

1. The paint bucket (hides behind the gradient tool sometimes)
2. Layer styles when uusing Bevel & Emboss with  a Texture
3. Edit > Fill (from the menus) which has the additional feature of using the 'Scriped fill' to apply the pattern in various ways like the 'Cross Weave below'.