If you find yourself using the same picture often, making it into a brush keeps it at your fingertips and it is easily resized. Brushes work best with a transparent background. A brush can be layered on top or under another image or used alone.

This heart is large and to use full sized, start with a new blank image that is at least 500 x 500 pixels.

To make a brush, in the image window choose Edit/Copy. That copies your image to the clipboard.
Then, choose Edit/Paste As/New Brush...

The brush dialog comes up. The top box is the name you see in the brushes, the next box is the filename of the brush. See the image below. The brush is automatically saved to your brushes folder in GIMP. Click the brush or pencil and find the heart in the brushes to use it.


To make the picture smaller, change the scale to whatever size you want. The small heart below was made 0.25 or one-fourth the size of the actual brush. See the image of the dialog below.


1/4th size


To save the heart brush, right click the link to the zipped file, save it and extract heart.gbr to your gimp2.4/brushes folder.

heartbrush.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



Last edited by Oregonian on Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:09 am; edited 1 time in total

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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

This is neat "O".

This shamrock brush was created using a dingbat and the Shrek script.



You may draw with the brush using the mouse. When I saved the shamrock as a brush, I changed the spacing to 50 which makes the brush space 50 pixels apart when you draw with it. The sizing was 0.25.



Download the brush here.
shamrock.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

I made a brush of this,and I scaled it down too.

Whoa, ET! That's one awesome dragon. Good job!!!

If you'll send me your brush, I'll zip it and put it in here.
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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

Aight,I sent it to you.Check your e-mail,and thank you "O"!!

Thank you!! Got it!

One more added note here. You can change the color of the dragon very easily by selecting Colors/Hue-Saturation...

Since the main color in the dragon is green, I selected the green rectangle in the Hue & Saturation dialog by clicking in the circle. That limits the color changes to only the green.

I changed the green dragon to a gold one using these settings.
Hue = -102 (minus 102)
Lightness = 46
Saturation = 71



Experiment with color changes in there. It's fun!

Here is the link to Sirwen's green dragon brush.

dragon.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

How do ya like this color??

That's gorgeous. We can have a herd of multicolored dragons!
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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

Don't ya just love it when something works like it should?


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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

Great nfo O!!
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I learned something when I spaced that shamrock. I remade the heart brush to Heart2 and spaced it 100. When you draw with it, the hearts aren't so close together. That's something to keep in mind when you make brushes.

The hearts on the left are done with the brush using 100 spacing, the ones on the right were the original brush and had 25 spacing.




Zipped heart2 brush. Filename: heart2.gbr
heart2brush100spc.ZIP

Although I shouldn't assume, I'm assuming that the spacing is percent rather than pixels.

It would be really nice if they made the spacing option available in the brush and pencil dialogs.
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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

This is done using the gradient option. The black outline was eliminated by the gradient.


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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