Help, how to resize brushes?

[StylinLP38]

   
Every time I stamp down a brush and then select the resize tool it wants me to resize the entire layer. I know I must be doing something wrong but can't figure it out.

These are Photoshop .ABR  brushes. I just simply dragged and dropped them into the GIMP2.0/Brush folder.

[Ofnuts]

There is a brush size slider in the Tool options of tools that use brushes (Brush, Pencil, Eraser...)

[StylinLP38]

(02-13-2019, 10:46 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: There is a brush size slider in the Tool options of tools that use brushes (Brush, Pencil, Eraser...)

oh, I the "Brush Editor" buried in the menu's. If I double click the BRUSH icon it will launch it. Thanks!

   

[Ofnuts]

That brush editor is only for "parametric brushes" (circles, squares...). The brush size slider is on your screeshot, half hidden by the popup menu...

[programmer_ceds]

(02-13-2019, 10:44 PM)StylinLP38 Wrote: Every time I stamp down a brush and then select the resize tool it wants me to resize the entire layer. I know I must be doing something wrong but can't figure it out.

These are Photoshop .ABR  brushes. I just simply dragged and dropped them into the GIMP2.0/Brush folder.

As an alternative to the slider in the toolbox the [ and ] keys decrease and increase the tool (brush) size by 1.

Using the Shift key in combination with the above keys is supposed to change the size by 10 - unfortunately this doesn't work (at least for a UK keyboard) since Shift + [ isn't recognised (I believe that this was reported as a bug some time ago). The answer is to use "Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts" and type "size" (all without quotes) in the search box. Then assign the { key to the "Tool's Size: Decrease by 10" action and the } key to the "Tool's Size: Increase by 10" action. Then, in effect, the shift key magnifies the changes.

Sometimes using the keyboard short-cuts can be easier than going to the toolbox and adjusting the slider.

[StylinLP38]

Awesome, thank you! Stuff is hard to find.

Now that I figured out how to resize a brush how do you rotate and move it once the object is stamped down? When I try to use the resize or move tool it wants to resize or move the entire layer. I just want to effect the object. I can use the Fuzzy Select tool to select it but why do I have to perform such an extras step? It take more time and it makes the brush "fuzzier".

[Blighty]

(02-17-2019, 06:35 AM)StylinLP38 Wrote: Now that I figured out how to resize a brush how do you rotate and move it once the object is stamped down?

Before you us the brush create a new transparent layer. Use the brush on this layer.
If necessary, after using the brush on this layer you can do Layer > Crop to Content
Now you can rotate, move, resize etc.

[Ofnuts]

You can also rotate the brush (Angle slider below the Size one in the Tool options).

[StylinLP38]

Im so confused, everything I try doesn't work at all. I cant resize. I cant select, I can paint. I cant do anything. All I want to do is paint in my farm fields with that farmfield pattern. I gave up trying to make a brush to paint that texture with so then I tried creating a separate layer, stamp down 4 of those patterns next to each other. Select all 4 patterns to make 1 pattern. Then I tried clicking the Resize tool but it doesn't effect those patterns at all. All it does is resize the select tool. I even tried pressing 
"Make select from Alpha" command, that does nothing. Im at a loss. I have farm field Brushes and farm field Patterns. Why does this have to be so difficult? Been working on this map for a week now.

EDIT UPDATE: I reduced the size of my brush and stamped down over a dozen farmfield plots then added transparency to that layer then used black color to erase over the plot lines.