So I guess this is just used for when you have a colorful pattern, lets say a pattern of leaves or flowers for example, and even though you mostly use them inside color illustrations, maybe some other time you will need a single color variant or a black and white version, just to tone the backgorund of a comic or something (but you don’t want to switch your color swatch). I made an example with a bigger colorful image so you can see the differences clearly: I am guessing this is for brushes which have more color variety in them originally, to make the brush act more like a black and white pattern rather than just any image with various color data.
So far it seems that the only thing “Tone” does is make the brush black-and-white, over-riding even the “use foreground color” option when in both are checked in the brush options. I tried looking up if anyone has posted or talked about this online, but seems that people don’t use the Pattern type brushes as much. Unfortunately, I do not know exactly, but since the the word “tone” is usually related to how shading is done. Hi, i hope this isn't a dumb question but whenever you make a brush say like, a pattern type, what does the "tone" option mean, or what type of effect does it create on the brush compared to a pattern brush without the tone? thanks much!