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change to way brushes work, new features

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change to way brushes work, new features Jim Michaels 25 Aug 08:38
  change to way brushes work, new features Alexia Death 25 Aug 08:56
Jim Michaels
2010-08-25 08:38:41 UTC (over 14 years ago)

change to way brushes work, new features

- programmable brushes without having to create a new brush for every instance of work task I want to do (I don't want a gazillion circle brushes in my palette!).

same way the brushes already are, except that for things like circles, softened circles, squares, lines, etc. the shapes basically are not multiplied in quantity, but you are allowed to simply tweak the parameters as you wish and as often as you like.
However, the ability to save/clone a brush as a new brush would be very handy. I jut want the multiplication to stop.

- make vector shapes possible with SVG brushes? they have all sorts of features. like gradients, shapes, etc.

- make it possible to open SVG graphics as a bitmap image and scale the image to the size you want (smart image sizing)?

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Alexia Death
2010-08-25 08:56:37 UTC (over 14 years ago)

change to way brushes work, new features

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jim Michaels wrote:

- programmable brushes without having to create a new brush for every instance of work task I want to do (I don't want a gazillion circle brushes in my palette!).
same way the brushes already are, except that for things like circles, softened circles, squares, lines, etc.  the shapes basically are not multiplied in quantity, but you are allowed to simply tweak the parameters as you wish and as often as you like. However, the ability to save/clone a brush as a new brush would be very handy.  I jut want the multiplication to stop.

Why the heck do they multiply? You are allowed to tweak any brushes you have created as many times as you desire, just open the brush editor and tweak away. My personal setu kontains an open brush editor in the docks at all times. The only ones you cant tweak are the ones in system folder. If they bother you, you can just remove them. There's only one cotcha. The moment you close gimp the tweaked version replaces your original. This is part of a bigger issue with resource handling and I seriously hope we develop a plan for dealing with this soon.

- make vector shapes possible with SVG brushes?  they have all sorts of features. like gradients, shapes, etc.

I think this is stuck behind a good compatibly licenced SVG rendering library. rsvg doesnt support most of the fancy things afaik. On the other hand, when I was starting with GIMP somebody said that for a skilled person it would be 20 minutes of work so it might just be that its not done because nobody is working on it...

- make it possible to open SVG graphics as a bitmap image and scale the image to the size you want (smart image sizing)?

This a matter of vector layers I suspect. Another work in progress due to lack of people working on it.