| 9.2. Two methods to create a new brush easily: | ||
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9. Brochas |  |
| 9.2. Two methods to create a new brush easily: | ||
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9. Brochas | |
First, the “superfast” method. You have an image area you want make a brush from it, to be used with a tool like pencil, airbrush... Select it with the rectangular (or elliptical) select tool, then do a of this selection and immediately you can see this copy in the first position of the Brush Dialog, and its name is “Clipboard”. It is immediately usable.
Selection becomes a brush after copying
Do → with, for example, a width and a length of 35 pixels and in the advanced options a Color Space in Gray Level and Fill with: white.
Zoom on this new image to enlarge it and draw on it with a black pencil.
Save it with a .gbr extension in the directory /home/name_of_user/.gimp-2.4/brushes/.
Save it with a .gbr extension in the directory /home/name_of_user/.gimp-2.6/brushes/.
In the Brushes dialog window, click on the button
Refresh brushes
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Steps to create a brush
