On 05/30/2015 08:56 PM, mgroothuis wrote:

Having gone nuts with my brush collection I not wish to cull it but have no easy way of viewing the brushes. Is there a piece of software like the abr viewer for GIMP brushes?

*not=now

This is a long standing annoyance. In the past I have done this:

1) Copy all the brushes from the GIMP's system wide 'brushes' directory into the user account 'brushes' directory.

2) Move or rename the system wide 'brushes' directory to make it invisible to the GIMP without risk of losing it.

3) In the GIMP's dockable dialog for brushes, with a blank white image canvas open and the brush tool active, work through the brush collection checking for and deleting unwanted ones.

An easy way would be to convert all those .gbr files to jpg or png with the same names and review those in any image viewer. But alas...

I was very surprised to find that Imagemagick does not have a decoder to read .gbr files, which makes the e-z way to convert all those brushes to PNG or other files for more convenient review a non-starter. The GIMP can do this, but I have never waded through the details and actually done it because Imagemagick is usually the right tool for the job of batch image conversion.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5794640/how-to-convert-xcf-to-png-using-gimp-from-the-command-line

:o/

1 июня 2015 г. 3:54 пользователь "Steve Kinney" написал:

On 05/30/2015 08:56 PM, mgroothuis wrote:

Having gone nuts with my brush collection I not wish to cull it but have no easy way of viewing the brushes. Is there a piece of software like the abr viewer for GIMP brushes?

*not=now

This is a long standing annoyance. In the past I have done this:

1) Copy all the brushes from the GIMP's system wide 'brushes' directory into the user account 'brushes' directory.

Instead of merely adding a new location for brushes in the Preferences dialog? Why?

Alex

On 06/01/2015 05:55 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

1) Copy all the brushes from the GIMP's system wide 'brushes' directory into the user account 'brushes' directory.

Instead of merely adding a new location for brushes in the Preferences dialog? Why?

It was just the first thing that occurred to me. Also, I have set keyboard + mouse wheel commands to change brush size and hardness on the fly. I find that the size of any brush changes as expected, but only brushes "owned" by the user will change hardness. Between that and wanting to be able to delete brushes that start out as read-only in /usr/share I just find it more convenient to keep them all (except a backup set, because I'm paranoid) in my user account's .gimp tree.

I do a lot of photo rework and I find being able to change brush size and hardness without changing brushes is hugely convenient. I have set things up so that Alt + mouse wheel up/down changes the current brush radius, Ctrl+Alt + mouse wheel up/down changes the brush hardness.

Of the seven brushes I use most frequently for "precision" work, six are not included in the factory stock set:

http://pilobilus.net/xfer/brushes.png

And here's how I control their size and hardness:

http://pilobilus.net/xfer/settings.png

One of these days I will pack these brushes up with brief setup instructions and put them on the Plugin Registry or somewhere like that. Humm... Now it occurs to me that I haven't even looked for a setting that will change the brush angle on the fly, which would be even more convenient. Considering what some of the brush dynamics settings do, I would not be surprised if this exists.

:o)

Steve