GIMP: Brush Help

[LadyFrost]

Hi all, I just wanted to post up a help message because I've just transfered from using Photoshop CS2 to using GIMP and some of the actions I'm still a little hazzey on.

I'll probably have to post up more help messages in the future but for now the one thing that is truely bugging me is in Photoshop CS2 I was able to change the size of the brush I wanted to use, but in GIMP I don't know how to do this . Can some help me in explaining how to do this?

I would be much appriciative. There might even be a graphic gift for the person/s who help me.

Thanks.

xxFrostyxx

[Quakindude]

Welcome to HardwareLogic! Glad to see you've made it to our little niche on the Net.

I like to link folks to things that will allow them to save the links as bookmarks. If these links fail to provide you with what you need, just let me know. But I think this will have you covered.

Link #1 - Brushes.

Link #2 - Adding new Brushes.

Link #3 - Creating your own.

[LadyFrost]

Thank you for the links. They helped a little, but not in the way I was hoping they would. It seems as though the only time I can resize a brush is if I've made it. I'm actually wanting to resize a brush or brushes that I've downloaded.

Some brushes I use for Wallpapers and Banners, which I need them to be pretty big, but some of them I want to use for icons and I need to size them down, and that is what I don't know how to do.

Am I confusing people here because I'm confusing myself lol

xxFrostyxx

[One4yu2c]

Have you tried this plug-in? ---> Resize Brush

[LadyFrost]

Thank you for the link...I clicked download and it gave me a long code...what do I have to do with it? I'm sorry if I sound stupid I'm just not sure what to do.

xxFrostyxx

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by LadyFrost

Thank you for the link...I clicked download and it gave me a long code...what do I have to do with it? I'm sorry if I sound stupid I'm just not sure what to do.

xxFrostyxx

Try it again. It gave me a file.

Thanks Paul!

[LadyFrost]

Is this what I'm supposed to be getting? Everytime I click download it goes to this:

;; resizebrush.scm -*-scheme-;; resizes a (gbr)-brush;; version 1.0 2005-11-13;; ;; Copyright (C) 2005 by Michael Hoelzen <MichaelHoelzen@aol.com>;; http://www.remoserv.de;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or; (at your option) any later version. ; ; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the; GNU General Public License for more details.;; version 1.1; the #resiZed.gbr will now be saved in the gimp-directory instead of; the gimp-data-directory which is write-protected in unix; ; version 1.2; changed \\brushes\\ to /brushes/ for unix-confirmity(define (script-fu-resize-brush image drawable resFactor) (define brushnameResi "#resiZed") (define filesave (string-append "" gimp-directory "/brushes/" brushnameResi ".gbr")) (define brushnameIn (car (gimp-context-get-brush))) (define (testIfresiZed a) (if (not (null? (string-search brushnameResi a))) (substring a 0 (string-search brushnameResi a)) a ) ) (set! actualbrush (testIfresiZed brushnameIn)) (gimp-context-set-brush actualbrush) (let* ( (brushnameOut (string-append actualbrush brushnameResi)) (spacing (car (gimp-brush-get-spacing actualbrush))) (brushDimens (gimp-brush-get-info actualbrush)) (brushWidth (car brushDimens)) (brushHeight (cadr brushDimens)) (resiZedWidth (* brushWidth resFactor)) (resiZedHeight(* brushHeight resFactor)) (centerX (/ brushWidth 2)) (centerY (/ brushHeight 2)) (centerXpluseins(+ centerX 1)) (centerYpluseins(+ centerY 1)) ) (and (> resiZedWidth 1)(> resiZedHeight 1) (begin (set! arrayToPaint (cons-array 4 'double)) (aset arrayToPaint 0 centerX) (aset arrayToPaint 1 centerY) (aset arrayToPaint 2 centerXpluseins) (aset arrayToPaint 3 centerYpluseins) (set! image (car (gimp-image-new brushWidth brushHeight RGB))) (set! layer (car (gimp-layer-new image brushWidth brushHeight 1 "layer 1" 100 0))) (gimp-image-undo-disable image) (gimp-image-add-layer image layer 0) (gimp-drawable-fill layer 3) (gimp-paintbrush-default layer 4 arrayToPaint) (gimp-image-scale image resiZedWidth resiZedHeight) (file-gbr-save 1 image layer filesave filesave spacing brushnameOut) (gimp-image-undo-enable image) (gimp-image-delete image) (gimp-brushes-refresh) (gimp-context-set-brush brushnameOut))) ));(script-fu-register "script-fu-resize-brush" _"_ResiZebrush" "ResiZe a brush" "Michael Hoelzen>" "Michael Hoelzen" "2005" "" SF-IMAGE "Image" 0 SF-DRAWABLE "Drawable" 0 SF-ADJUSTMENT _"resFactor" '(1.3 0.1 3.0 0.1 1 1 0))(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-resize-brush" _"<Image>/Script-Fu/BrushUtil")

I'm getting so frustrated over this lol.

xxFrostyxx

[One4yu2c]

If you click here (CLICK ME), it should download the file. If not, right-click that link and choose 'Save Link As' and then save it to your desktop. The file is called resizebrush-1-2.scm.

Once downloaded, you need to put the file in C:\Program Files\Gimp-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts. If you have Gimp installed somewhere else, then navigate accordingly and find the scripts folder.

Load up Gimp, select your brush of choice, then navigate to:

>Script-Fu
>BrushUtil
>ResiZebrush

[LadyFrost]

IT WORKS!

Thanks sooooooo much for your help, its much appriciated. I got so excited when I turned this wallpaper brush I had into a tiny Icon brush that the person on the other end of my phone laughed so hard, I guess I was squeeling lol.

Anyway thanks again it was a HUGE help even though I think I've done pretty well without this for the time being.

A created the Icon and Signature I'm using the other the day.


xxFrostyxx

[SHOSHO]

Originally Posted by One4yu2c

If you click here (CLICK ME), it should download the file. If not, right-click that link and choose 'Save Link As' and then save it to your desktop. The file is called resizebrush-1-2.scm.

Once downloaded, you need to put the file in C:Program FilesGimp-2.0sharegimp2.0scripts. If you have Gimp installed somewhere else, then navigate accordingly and find the scripts folder.

Load up Gimp, select your brush of choice, then navigate to:

>Script-Fu
>BrushUtil
>ResiZebrush

ok i did every thing you said but i still dont understand how to resize the brush i have the script installed and everthing