Thank you Saul for an excellent step-by-step response. I learned a lot from your explanations. Helen
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:40 PM, <saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com>wrote: > Quoting Helen <etter...@gmail.com>: > > > In order to create a gimp brush, I created a file, drew the design, did > > select all > copy > paste as > new brush. > At this point, there are two possibilities for how the created brush > will behave: 1) it will either be a "fixed-color" brush which can > consist of millions of different colors, but the colors can not be > changed; or 2) it will be a single-color brush which uses the active > FG color. > > The second type of brush will only be created if your source image is > in GRAYSCALE mode and has no alpha channel. If these two conditions > are true then any black pixels in the brush will paint in the active > FG color, while white pixels will be "painted transparently" (i.e., > not painted). More precisely, darker shades of gray are painted using > the FG color with increasing opacity level. > > The first type of brush will use exactly the color and opacity of the > original image while painting. > > > The brush only paints white (my fg color when I created the file). > > I've tried creating the file in RGB and have tried Grayscale. > > Can you advise me how to edit this brush to make it take on > > the foreground colour? > > Your statement suggests that you created your brush by putting white > pixels on a transparent layer (ie., one with an alpha channel). The > existence of the alpha channel causes your brush to be of the "fixed > color" type. What you want to do: > > . "Colors->Invert" -- change the white pixels to black > . Set BG color to white > . "Layer->Transparency->Remove Alpha Channel" -- change the > transparent pixels to white > . "Image->Mode->Grayscale" > > Of course, none of this is necessary if you start out editing your > brush with a black FG and white BG on a flattened image. > > After you have created your design in this manner, your process of > "select all > copy > paste as > new brush" should produce the result > you desire. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > -- Helen Etters using Linux, using openSUSE11.0
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