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Create a color brush

Create a color brush - GIMP Tutorial

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Create a color brush

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- [Instructor] We'll continue our look at making custom at making custom brushes in GIMP brushes in GIMP by seeing how to make a custom color brush by seeing how to make a custom color brush that retains the colors from a source image, and an ordinary brush that you can use to apply to apply the current foreground color. the current foreground color. Now to make these kinds of brushes, we need to start with an image, like the one here like the one here in our exercise file, in our exercise file, which is a small image of some sand which is a small image of some sand with transparency, saved as an xcf file. Now to make this into a brush, I'll export it, I'll export it bychoosing File, Export As, by choosing file, export as, and in the dialogue box I'll open the select file type by extension, and choose GIMP brush. In order for GIMP to see my new brush, I have to put it in the correct folder, and I can see that folder by opening GIMP preferences, and choosing folders, brushes. And…

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