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Rotate (and resize) Brush

Leo_in_NJ — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:05:38 +0200

Updated for version 2.6. Resizing brushes is pretty much obsolete, but rotating, mirroring and inverting brushes is still useful.

GIMP Unified Resource Manager (GURM)

RobA — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:30:38 +0100

This plugin was created at my suggestion by Sagenlicht at the cartographers' guild website

It is a python plugin (so you need to have python installed) that can dynamically manage all the resources that gimp can use. (It is basically an extension of the brush manager plugin). He has given me permission to post it here :)

GURM stands for GIMP Unified Resource Manager and is based on the idea of the Brush Manager by Sean Bogie. Contrary to Sean's Brush Manager GURM can handle brushes, gradients, palettes, patterns and scripts (Script-Fu). It uses parts of his code.

**** Update 08.01.2009 ****
New version of GURM is out.

Change log for GURM V0.7:

* Added some basic error windows
- GURM now tells you, if the paths set in the gurm.ini are wrong
- GURM now tells you, if it cant find the gurm.ini
Earlier versions simply closed without any feedback
* Started to clean up the code
* Fixed progress bar count
* Added support for .jpg, .png, .tiff, .bmp and .gif files for the Pattern Manager
* Added support for .svg files for the Gradient Manager
* Fixed sorting for GUI

Please consider to upgrade to this version, even if you do not need its changes, as I plan to write an upgrade script beginning with the next update for GURM, which will make updating easier. This script will require V0.7 or later as I made a minor code change how the script searches for the gurm.ini.

How to upgrade

* Unzip the attached gurm.zip to a temporary folder
* Copy the new gurm.py to the plug-ins folder. Please be sure to either remove the old version or overwrite it.
* Set the path to the gurm.ini in the new gurm.py. Please be aware that it has changed in this version. Be sure to read the readme.
* Version 0.7 has a change to the gurm.ini file which means:
* You either have to overwrite your existing gurm.ini with the new one and set the paths again (recommended for less computer experienced peps as you can follow the readme)
* Or add the changes manually:
- change the pattern manager extensions line to (be careful to end the line with a "," and dont use any spaces between the ",":
extensions = .pat,.jpg,.png,.tiff,.bmp,.gif,
- change the gradient manager extensions line to (be careful to end the line with a "," and dont use any spaces between the ",":
extensions = .ggr,.svg,

Quick upgrade for those who allready manually fixed the gurm.ini
If you allready did those gurm.ini changes you do not have to do anything with the gurm.ini - just replace the existing gurm.py in your plug-ins folder with the new version and reset the path to the gurm.ini in it.

First time installation
If you dont update and downloading GURM for the first time, please be sure to read the readme. It tells you how to setup GURM properly. It is easier than it actually reads

draw-offset-point.scm

Giuseppe — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:14:37 +0200

This script allow to offset n x m times the active paint-brush.

Tutorial: http://xoomer.alice.it/lwcon/gimp/script-fu/draw-offset-point.htm

Abr Brush Loader Binaries for Microsoft Windows

schumaml — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:55:45 +0200

Windows binaries for the Abr brush loader plug-in by
Eric Lamarque.

resizeBrush.scm

kriidler — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:52:30 +0200

This script resizes the brush that is currently selected.

I DID NOT write this script, I only adapted it so that it works on both windows and linux.

Rotating Brush Assistant

RobA — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:31:35 +0100

This script help to set up a rotating (animated) brush. Starting with one (or more) brush images, it will create rotated copies of that image in a way to allow saving the file as a gih.

Just start with an image oriented in the "drawing upwards" direction:

and run the script. With the defaults it will create a new image having all the rotated copies:

Now save it as a .gih in your brush folder, and refresh the brush list.

Here is a sample drawing with this brush. The right squiggle uses tablet pressure sensitivity to change the size.

It will work with any shape image, but it only rotates a circle, so try to keep the image inside To make a Colour brush, start with a RGB image with transparency, and check the option in the make brush dialog. For a normal brush, make it a greyscale image with no alpha. White will end up transparent, and greys will end up partially transparent.

It will also rotate multiple images if you start with them stacked vertically, and tell the script how many images you have:

Source Image:

Created by script:

How to save this to follow the angle and alternate between the rows:

and a sample. (I toggled on "Use Color from Gradient" in the paint tool dialog in the lower half):

The script registers itself as Script-Fu->Utils->Setup Rotating Brush

Abr brush loader

eric.lamarque — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:42:34 +0100

Plugin to load Photoshop ABR brushes as image in GIMP. Multiple brushes included in a file are loaded as layers. Should handle v1, v2, v6.1 and v6.2 sample brushes (though I don't known which PS release create each). Requires Gimp 2.4.

Bugzilla #377016 for v6 brush support