Lines and Arrows

[anon_private]

Can I draw lines and arrows with Gimp?

[Blighty]

Yes, you can.

Lines are easy to draw. For arrows, it would probably be best to get a script that draws arrows. There are several of them.

But you haven't said what you are trying to do. Maybe vector graphics would be better. Provide some more info and you will get better advice.

[Espermaschine]

I use an arrow brush for pointers in tutorials.

[rich2005]

For drawing straight lines see: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/

That can be extended to hand drawn arrows as the green ones shown in the screen shot.

   

There are plenty of arrow brushes. Use them as a 'stamp'. Size the brush, set the angle if required, then a single click to 'paint' an arrow. Some of them will take the fore-ground colour as well.

FWIW attached my colllection: These are all .gbr Un-zip put the ones you want in your Gimp profile brushes folder.

The snag with the brush format is larger brush sizes where they can appear fuzzy.

The solution is use a vector (path) format to create a path. Then stroke the path with a colour and a size.
See https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-path-stroke.html 

Ofnuts has a script for arrow heads, there are others. some simple some complicated.

[Espermaschine]

It would be really nice to have vector brushes for some special cases.
When you really need a nice crisp geometric shape, the gimp brushes tend to get a bit blurry when resized, imo.

[anon_private]

(02-26-2017, 02:47 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: I use an arrow brush for pointers in tutorials.

Did you make your own arrows. If so, how did yo create the brush/brushes?

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(02-26-2017, 04:06 PM)rich2005 Wrote: For drawing straight lines see: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/

That can be extended to hand drawn arrows as the green ones shown in the screen shot.



There are plenty of arrow brushes. Use them as a 'stamp'. Size the brush, set the angle if required, then a single click to 'paint' an arrow. Some of them will take the fore-ground colour as well.

FWIW attached my colllection: These are all .gbr Un-zip put the ones you want in your Gimp profile brushes folder.

The snag with the brush format is larger brush sizes where they can appear fuzzy.

The solution is use a vector (path) format to create a path. Then stroke the path with a colour and a size.
See https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-path-stroke.html 

Ofnuts has a script for arrow heads, there are others. some simple some complicated.

Can I view the brushes before deciding to install?

For installing brushes in kubuntu. Is the right folder: /home/gimp-2.8/brushes

[rich2005]

(02-28-2017, 06:05 PM)anon_private Wrote: There are plenty of arrow brushes. Use them as a 'stamp'. Size the brush, set the angle if required, then a single click to 'paint' an arrow. Some of them will take the fore-ground colour as well.

FWIW attached my colllection: These are all .gbr Un-zip put the ones you want in your Gimp profile brushes folder.

Quote:Can I view the brushes before deciding to install?

You can open a gimp .gbr brush file the same as any other graphics file File -> Open. It will of course usually be on the small side. If you get a PhotoShop .abr brush then that is a different matter although I can fix you up with a plug-in for opening if required.

Quote:For installing brushes in kubuntu. Is the right folder: /home/gimp-2.8/brushes

Certainly is. Remember it is the 'hidden' folder /home/.gimp-2.8/brushes

[Ofnuts]

(02-28-2017, 06:33 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

Quote:For installing brushes in kubuntu. Is the right folder: /home/gimp-2.8/brushes

Certainly is. Remember it is the 'hidden' folder /home/.gimp-2.8/brushes

More like /home/{your_id}/.gimp-2.8/brushes (a.k.a. ~/.gimp-2.8/brushes)

[rich2005]

You got me there

[Espermaschine]

(02-28-2017, 06:05 PM)anon_private Wrote: Did you make your own arrows. If so, how did yo create the brush/brushes?

Im using one i found on the internet, but making a brush is easy.
Lots of tutorials around too.

Here is a quick one:
https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-vari...ating.html

For more elaborate tutorials try youtube.

Would probably use Inkscape for making the arrow shape heading in different directions, though.
Then import into Gimp and make brushes out if it.
But thats just me and not necessary.