Creating a Photoshop Brush - Problem

I'm trying to create a brush from a simple rectangular shape.  The steps I do are simple, create a solid rectangular vector shape, then rasterize the layer.  This is where it goes sour, after creating the shape and rasterizing it I select the maraquee tool and I create a perfect selection around the shape.  In which the brush which is white gets inverted and the brush shape is not to the exact size that I selected it.  That brings me to my three questions, how can I create a brush that is exact size to the rectangular shape  ? How can I prevent the brush from being inverted ? And finally is there a way when stroking a path with a brush to have the brush strokes if it's a shape for example bend to the shape of the path ?

You must be creating the brush wrongly.
The steps are: create the rectangle using Fill Pixels option
Select the fill area with the Magic Wand.
Go to Edit > Define Brush Preset – give it a name.
It will appear in your current brush drop-down.
I don't know a way to make the axis of the brush follow parallel to the path.
Are you trying to make a curved dashed line?

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