Re: [Gimp-user] Brush size speed

[Brendan Scott <disposableemail apps opensourcelaw biz>]

On 08/30/2013 11:03 PM, legna80 wrote:
> Hi there everybody :)
>
> Well i've, been a gimp user since quite a time now, and always loved it over
> photostop for doing all my work except for the one i love most, and thats
> digital painting. My problem is the scaling of the brushes, ive tried everthing
> but at the end i don't feel satisfied with the behavior of how gimp scales the
> brushes pixel per pixel at time, its very slow working on large canvas, i know
> there's the scale more shortcut but its not quite precise and swapping between
> the normal scale shortcut with the scale more is a pain in the ass, at least for
> me  because i barely use the keyboard so i rely heavily on my intuos 4 medium
> tablet using the touch ring for scaling, so my questions are:
>
> theres no way to have a similar  brush scale behavior similar to the one in
> photoshop ? like it doesnt matter if im very zoomed in or very zoomed out, the
> brush scales fast and precise
>
> I dont remember where i read about this other shortcut called  increase brush
> size relative, that is like a more precise way to scale the brush size but my
> problem is why it does nothing after assigning a key to it ? well it does, on
> the bottom where zoom percentage is located,to the right ive seen that it shows
> the selected tool, and when i click the assigned key to the command i said
> before it shows Brush Angel 0.00. why? im not trying to rotate the brush im
> trying to scale it, maybe is a bug i dont know.
>
> Anyways thats my issue guys, hope somebody can give me any advice for this.

I usually only want one of 3 or 4 sizes.  I've written a plug-in which (among other things) allows you to 
cycle through specific brush size presets (eg 10, 20, 40, 80) (and define your own).  I have it bound to one 
of my side buttons.

See if it helps:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/28413