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104 lines
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>The Brush Selection Dialog</TITLE>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">The Brush Selection
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Dialog</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<P>
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It's in this dialog you choose what brush you want to use, and the settings
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you want to apply to the brush. The dialog displays all the available brushes.
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You may also notice some unusual brushes, like colored brushes (pixmap brushes),
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brushes with a red triangle in the right corner a so called "Image House"
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brush , brushes with artistic text, little flourishes or doodles, etc.
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<P>
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All of those brushes are relatively easy to create in Gimp and save them
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in the appropriate format. Gimp also provides you with a <A
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href="brush_editor.html">brush editor</A>
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where you can create and edit brushes (you can only edit brushes that are
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created in the brush editor).
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<H4>
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Preview and Brush Information
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</H4>
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<P>
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You will see that some of the brushes in the dialog has a little + sign.
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The + sign is indicating that the brush preview is scaled to fit, i.e. the
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brush is larger in reality. To view the real size of the brush, click and
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hold on the brush square and the real size brush will appear (and disappear
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when you release the mouse).
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<P>
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When you choose a brush the name and the size of the brush will appear in
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the brush dialog. The brush size is measured in pixels.
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<H4>
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Settings
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</H4>
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<P>
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Spacing is the distance between your brush marks. If you set the spacing
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to 100 the brushmarks will be like a bead of pearls. If you set the spacing
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to zero, the brushmarks will create a solid, brush-shaped line. If the spacing
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is higher than 100 the brushmarks will form a dotted line. Note: It is mostly
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not useful to set the spacing to zero since the brush (most notably fuzzy
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ones) will look unnatural.
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<H4>
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Pixmap Brushes
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</H4>
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<P>
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Pixmap brushes are small images (with or without color) that can be used
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as a brush. Since the brush is a image you can't alter it's color, i.e the
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color setting in the toolbox will not apply to this image. Note: That if
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you use color as a pressure sensitivity when you paint you will be able to
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change the color of the pixmap brush. For information how to create and save
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a Pixmap Brush please see the <A HREF="../save/filters/gpb.html">Gimp Pixmap
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Brush</A> page.
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<H4>
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Image Hose Brushes
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</H4>
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<P>
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The Image Hose brush is a specialized pixmap brush, you will notice that
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the brush is a Image Hose by the little red triangle in the bottom right
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corner. The difference between a Pixmap brush and a Image Hose is that the
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Image Hose contains one or several Pixmap brushes.
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<P>
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The preview of an Image Hose is also a bit special, since an Image hose is
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built up of several Pixmap brushes you will see all brushes displayed as
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a small animation when you invoke the preview function (press and hold on
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the brush preview).
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<P>
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Since the Image Hose is built up of several Pixmap brushes there are functions
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to control which of the brushes you will paint with. The functions are
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incremental, angular, random, velocity, pressure, xtilt and ytilt. To give
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you an idea say that the Image Hose is built up of several arrows and has
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angular as control function. Then you will be able to paint arrows that follows
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your movements when you draw. Note: That you can't edit those function they
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are built into the Image Hose brush file when it was created. For further
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explanation of how to create Image Hoses please see the
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<A HREF="../save/filters/gpb.html">Gimp Pixmap Brush</A> page.
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<H4>
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New, Edit and Delete Brushes
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</H4>
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<P>
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You can create new brushes by clicking on the new button. This will bring
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up the <A HREF="../dialogs/brush_editor.html">Brush Editor</A> dialog where
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you can create your brush. You can edit brushes created in the brush dialog,
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invoking edit on brush of that type will once again bring up the Brush Editor
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dialog where you can alter your brush. Naturally you can also delete brushes
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created in the Brush Editor, just click on Delete and they will vanish.
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<H3>
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Additional Information
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</H3>
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<P>
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Default Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+B
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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