I was lamenting the fact that the spacing of brushes couldn't be changed. I was wrong. It is possible to change the spacing. I don't usually have the brushes dialog up so I missed the spacing slider on it.

To open the dialog, in the GIMP palette File/Dialogs/Brushes or you can do Ctrl + Shift + B to open it. Choose a brush and move the Spacing slider to change the spacing.


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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

I designed the patterns in these shamrocks and rotated and flipped each one so that each has four different positions in a brush for a total of 32 layers in the animated brush.



Here are two examples of the rotated and flipped brushes. Each of the eight brushes was done at a different angle.


I used the ellipse tool to make an oval of St. Patrick by positioning it around him, and clicking selection to path in the Paths, then inverted the selection and cleared the rest of the picture. Inverted the selection again, "grew" it by 10 pixels, clicked selection to path again, then unselected.

I used the the 32 Shams brush, resized it, re-spaced it, added a bit of jitter to it, then in the paths selected the larger path, then, Paint along the path which made the oval frame of shamrocks. I also added a few random shamrocks with the brush.

Easter is coming. Have fun with the Easter egg brush and the Easter egg template.

Easter egg brush


Download eastereggs.gih.zip and unzip into your gimp2.4/brushes folder.
eastereggs.gih.zip

This is a gimp Easter egg template. In the file are three layers.
An egg outline, an egg fill, and a whole egg. All the layers are "locked" so that only the colored area will recolor.

Open the template and duplicate it. Then close the original template. You can fill the eggs with a color, pattern or gradient. Color a whole egg, color the egg fill and put the outline over it so you have an outlined egg. Use dingbats for decoration.

Here is a demo of two eggs made with the template.


Download the xcf file here.
eastereggtemplate.xcf
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

These are the sparkle eggs I made "O". All I did was use the Bling Script,with that font,and used the sparkle effect,with this pattern.You can do any color on the stroke and shadow.




Back ground color=forum color,which I delete.Sometimes works,sometimes dont,but either way here it looks transparent.

Here is what I came up with. I suppose you could make brushes from them. I hadnt gotten that far yet. I'm trying to catch up tho.

This is a-g in the egg font


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Egg brush a

Original



Different Hue


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Those are beautiful, Sirwen. Thank you for posting them.

Get the African eggs and Easter Time eggs dingbats here.

link
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

Download Sirwen's pretty African egg brush. Paint an egg and in the image window, select Color/Hue & Saturation to change the colors. Add a drop shadow if desired to give it depth.



Unzip into your gimp2.4/brushes folder.
africanegga.gbr.zip
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

you don't need to restart GIMP to add a new brush just hit the refress button in the brushes dialog. (thats the one with 2 arrows at thew bottom of the dialog)

heres a link to a plugin you can install to manage your brush collection.
brush manager

That brush manager looks cool! Need to read it over and digest what it's saying.

It will be nice to have the different directories to keep them available but separated.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

ggdancer wrote:

you don't need to restart GIMP to add a new brush just hit the refress button in the brushes dialog. (thats the one with 2 arrows at thew bottom of the dialog)

Point well taken, ggdancer! To get to the brushes dialog - in the GIMP palette, click File/Dialogs/Brushes. Click the refresh button (button on the bottom right) See image below.


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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

snowflakes.gih.zip


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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

Snagged 'em. Thanks "O"!
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I've had those stored for quite awhile and decided to go ahead and post them before I forgot about them. Was going to wait until the "snow" season.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert Heinlein

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