Thread: Custom brush

Have you ever wondered how those beautiful brushes are made? You probably think that one must be adept with vector graphics to create these brushes. Well, you are wrong! Although most of the scalable brushes are created using vector graphics, creating brushes in GIMP is child's play. Yes, simply open an image, select it and copy it, and bingo! You have just created a new brush. This new brush will appear in the brush window and you can save it by clicking on the Save button.

The GIMP is certainly one of the best image editors available out there, and version 2.6 is no exception. Though a majority of the changes lie in the core, some of the user-level features make it a pretty nifty update. The inclusion of GEGL and CMYK support has certainly opened new doors for this venerable FOSS image editing application. Version 2.6 tries to leverage the gap between paid alternatives and freely available tools. But with incomplete integration and ill improvements' it still has a long way to go.



Looking forward, it seems that version 2.8 will be a killer release. Developers have revealed some plans for the next stable version: on-canvas text editing, merger of finished projects from the Google Summer of Code, a revamped user interface and better GEGL integration.

Till then, let's wait But, just in case you haven't tried GIMP out, then 2.6 is the release for you. As for the missing features ... well, as they say, "Rome was not built in a day!" The GIMP has already gained some much-needed momentum, and with GEGL and CMYK on board, it seems it's destined to gain a lot of respect among the pros.