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Handling brushes - rkimber - 09-12-2021
The more I use Gimp, the more brushes I acquire. This brings the problem of selecting brushes from the very small brushes window, which I am finding increasingly awkward.
How do other people handle large numbers of brushes?
Is there a way of increasing the size of the brush selection window? Is there a way of grouping the brushes into categories so that they are not all displayed at the same time? Often an abr file contains many individual brushes some of which one might never use - is there a way of deleting the unwanted brushes?
I would appreciate any hints on brush management that people might have.
RE: Handling brushes - PixLab - 09-13-2021
(09-12-2021, 08:48 PM)rkimber Wrote: The more I use Gimp, the more brushes I acquire. This brings the problem of selecting brushes from the very small brushes window, which I am finding increasingly awkward.
How do other people handle large numbers of brushes?
I don't import anymore brushes, if I need one I made it on the fly then copy/Ctrl+C for that brush to be in the image clipboard
I would suggest that you put brushes in GIMP when you use it = Keep your brushes in a separate directory, when you need one put it in the brushes folder of GIMP, click on the green arrow (in the image) to re-load/refresh the brushes (so no need to close GIMP)
(09-12-2021, 08:48 PM)rkimber Wrote: Is there a way of increasing the size of the brush selection window? Is there a way of grouping the brushes into categories so that they are not all displayed at the same time? Often an abr file contains many individual brushes some of which one might never use - is there a way of deleting the unwanted brushes?
I would appreciate any hints on brush management that people might have.
Shift+Ctrl+B (or in the menu > Windows / Dockable dialogs / Brushes), drag out the brushes tab to make it its own window-> resize as you wish (you can right click on the Title bar and select "Always on top" if you wish to have it always in your sight, just double click on the title bar to roll up the window, double click again to roll it down)
and you can even increase the brushes preview size
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RE: Handling brushes - rich2005 - 09-13-2021
Quote:..How do other people handle large numbers of brushes?..
One way is use a resources manager, Ofnuts has one here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts
addonCollectionManager-3.0.py dated 2013-05-26 and some (old) information on setup here http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/managementtools.shtml
It is not that difficult: Groups of brushes are stored in zipped folders and activated/disabled as required. Looks like this on my installation: https://i.imgur.com/ceFRZIH.jpg
Quote:...Is there a way of grouping the brushes into categories so that they are not all displayed at the same time?
The way is have all the brushes installed and use tags to 'thin' down the number displayed: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tagging.html useful but easy to get in a real mess. If you install sets of brushes in their own folders, then Gimp will use the folder name as the tag.
Added this screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/EZpyfee.jpg Left is an added folder (sponge) of brushes in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\brushes and right cleared the filter to get all brushes back in view.
Quote:Often an abr file contains many individual brushes some of which one might never use - is there a way of deleting the unwanted brushes?
Not as an abr brush set, You need to extract each brush and make that into a Gimp brush. I have linux utilities but for Windows ? I think AbrMate https://abrmate.software.informer.com/1.1/ and then there are plugins to batch export images to Gimp individual .gbr files
RE: Handling brushes - rkimber - 09-13-2021
Thanks for the advice.