09-13-2021, 09:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-13-2021, 10:19 AM by rich2005.
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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-to...es/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