Re: [Gimp-user] changing the brush sizes

["Rick Strong" <rnstrong magma ca>]

Dave:

This works like a charm. Very clear instructions. Great post!

Rick

-----Original Message----- 
From: David
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 4:01 AM
To: Jim Horrocks ; gimp-user-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] changing the brush sizes

Hi Jim,

from he textual description of a youtube video I found out while having your 
same problem:

"GIMP has a very good at working with realistic paint brushes, but the 
default installation lacks a very useful shortcut. If you have worked with 
the Paint Brush or Pencil tool, you may have noticed that changing the size 
of the brush isn't easy. You have to fiddle around with the Size/Scale 
slider in the tool options on the left. This is a lot of guess work, because 
it doesn't show a preview size when you are dragging the slider. Have no 
fear, there is an easier way. Configure the mouse wheel to increase and 
decrease the brush size when you scroll up or down.

-Click "Edit"?"Preferences"
-Under the "Input Devices" section, click "Input Controllers"
-In the "Active Controllers" column, double-click "Main Mouse Wheel"
-A new window to configure the controller will pop up. Make sure the second 
check box, "Enable this Controller" is checked, or else this won't work
-Find the "Scroll Up" event, (it should be at the top). Double-click it or 
click "Edit" at the bottom.
-Click on the "Tools" section and type "increase" in the search field
-Scroll down and click on the action "Increase Brush Size". The name is 
"tools-paint-brush-size-increase&qu­ot;. (In some versions of GIMP it was 
"Increase Brush Scale")
-Close the window, then edit the "Scroll Down" event
-This time type "Decrease" in the search bar and locate the "Decrease Brush 
Size" action. (Name is "tools-paint-brush-size-decrease&qu­ot;)
-Close the action window, input controller window and click OK in the 
"Preferences" window

Now you can simply scroll the mouse wheel to vary the brush size."

Hope it helps,
To me, it works perfectly! ;)

Cheers,

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