07-24-2023, 06:37 AM
(07-24-2023, 01:35 AM)Zio Wrote:(07-24-2023, 12:11 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Your problem is that you have a very "anisotropic" brush. Dynamics are off so it won't rotate to follow your stroke(*). At the size you specify, when you stroke vertically the line is 20px wide but if you stroke horizontally, the line is as thick as the brush is thick: one pixel. And since you are zoomed out 4x, this is scaled to 1/4th of a pixel, so that 's a gray which is only 1/4th of the darkness of black.
Unless you know better, us the round brushes (2. hardness 100 in particular.)
(*) and given that particular brush, when it does (with Track direction for instance) you get the thin edge...
I obviously don't know better. I just picked the first brush that came up, and changed the thickness a bit. I wasn't aware that the brush would act as a "real" brush. Not exactly what I am looking for.
I was intending to use GIMP in creating another children's book(I used the Firealpaca program for the first one). I think I might be better off using the pencil tool for my lines here, though. I started with the brush because I read that the pencil in GIMP was not as smooth looking like the brush.
Thanks for your help!
Update: Well, I tried with the pencil but that does the same thing. Isn't there just a tool here that will let you draw lines, without having to configure the tool whenever you make a new line in a different direction?
As stated in my answer, use the round brush. The default brush (2. Hardness 050) is round. If it is too soft for you, you can either increase the hardness (one of the sliders in the Tool option) or replace it by its 2. Hardness 100 sibling.
Yo can make that your default brush when you start Gimp, if necessary.