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Configure brush keyboard shortcuts - GIMP Tutorial
From the course: GIMP Essential Training
Configure brush keyboard shortcuts
- [Narrator] As we've seen in other movies, brushes are used for a lot of things in GIMP, so it's important that you can get your brushes to behave exactly the way that you want, with the least amount of effort. One way to do that is by setting up a few keyboards shortcuts to work with brushes. By using keyboard shortcuts instead of dialogs, you don't have to move your cursor away from your artwork, and you can make adjustments on the fly and just keep working. And you can create keyboard shortcuts for just about every aspect of a brush, including aspect ratio, angle, size, hardness, spacing, and more. For example, one thing that I almost always want to do when I'm using a brush, is to adjust the hardness. While you can adjust the hardness of a default brush in the tool options, you can't control its hardness with a keyboard shortcut. But you can use a keyboard shortcut to adjust the hardness of a custom brush. So if I take the hardness 50 brush and click the button in the brushes…
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Sampling colors3m 33s
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Define colors3m 19s
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Understanding the Brush tool options4m 18s
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Understanding brush types5m 34s
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Brush dynamics3m 27s
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The Brushes dialog4m 58s
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Create a parametric brush3m 44s
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Create a color brush4m 38s
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Create a clipboard brush3m 35s
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Bucket Fill tool1m 36s
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Gradient tool4m 6s
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Airbrush tool2m 13s
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Ink tool1m 56s
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MyPaint Brush tool4m 16s
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Configure brush keyboard shortcuts3m 43s
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