Re: [Gimp-developer] [Demo] Porting MyPaint brush engines to the GIMP.

[gfxuser <gfx user online de>]

Hi,
> In Gimp on the other hand you don't have such presets and you start 
> every time from scratch to design the brush again and again that you 
> used previously. An excellent way to kill time without progress and 
> desired result. :-(
>
> It's not about the settings of the brush itself, it's about reusing 
> brushes and their corresponding settings. For example: I use a knife 
> to add color to a painting, then i use a knife without color to refine 
> details and then i use the knife with color again. Switching between 
> the two brushes can be done in MyPaint with one click or hotkey. But 
> what will you do in Gimp?
have you heard of GIMPs already existing abilities to save and load 
presets? They are in version 2.6.12, but they have already been for 
longer time in GIMP.
You find them at the bottom of each tools' window, like the brush 
dialog. There are disc icons to save, load, delete and reset tool 
presets. The stored settings contain the particular tool settings as 
well as the color. I just tried it out. Also the small triangle icon in 
the upper right corner of the tools dialogs offers these abilities.
There are also many ready-to-use tool presets and brushes for instance 
at 
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/gimpbrushes/?order=9, which 
can be very useful.
What I was missing in the past were predefined presets out of the box, 
shipping with GIMP, but this will change in 2.8. Version 2.8RC1 has a 
reworked preset system: GIMP will ship with some presets, some reworked 
painting brushes and a preset window like Photoshop's 'Tool presets' 
window. I still haven't found a way to activate a particular preset by 
using a hotkey, but you can bind the new Preset window to a keyboard 
shortcut.

> That the brush circle is so sloppy really irritates from drawing, not 
> seeing where you really are. 
Version 2.6.11 on my Windows system works fine in this point. For 2.8RC1 
on Windows and 2.6.12 on OS X I have to agree with you.

Best regards,

grafxuser