Can't edit brush size, etc

[rich2005]

(06-05-2017, 09:24 PM)harryllama Wrote: ...I count 56 pre-made brushes, visible with the Brushes window (Ctrl-Shft-B), including a green pepper brush... So none of these is editable, it looks like, except that through tool options I can change the size and a few other things (but not hardness). I can also make a new brush, which appears in the same brush window, and this brush can be adjusted as I like, including hardness -- and I can still change the size with tool options. Is that correct?
I don't see a menu choice for saving this brush.
Also, are there other brushes besides parametric brushes?

It is all in the Gimp documentation (somewhere) starting point https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-brushes.html and some old-ish but useful info http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.p...icle_id=30

As I see it:

Look in Edit -> Preferences Folders -> Brushes and by default there are two locations for brushes, your Gimp profile folder and the Gimp installation folder. These have a 'writeable' tick box. Do not try and make the Program Files writeable, this only affects the Gimp profile and any extra folder(s) you might create.



If you look in the Gimp Installation files there is a folder full of the old Gimp 2.6 brush files. Lots of similar brushes of different sizes needed. Gimp 2.6 did not have the same tools as Gimp 2.8  Nothing to stop you copying these to your Gimp profile for use and/or editing.



In Gimp 2.8 and the brush editor. This only edits parametric (.vbr) brushes. How to differentiate brushes in the brush dialogue. Bottom right corner in each icon is a symbol. Nothing for .gbr, A little + for .vbr and a triangle for animated (.gih) brushes.

For a .vbr brush in an editable folder, The circular arrow right size of the size slider in the tool options resets to the specified size.



Change the size in the brush editor, click the arrow and the brush takes the new size.
Saving brushes, Bottom of the Brushes dialogue, the usual, edit, create, duplicate, delete, refresh options.



Easy way to make a new .vbr brush.
Use one of the existing .vbr brushes
Duplicate it



Give it a new name, change the properties as required, refresh the brushes.
Brush is saved in your Gimp profile