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The Brushes dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section on <a href="ch02s03s04.html" title="3.4. Dialogs and Docking">Dialogs and Docking</a> for help on

manipulating it. It can be activated in several ways:

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From the Toolbox menu:

<span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Brus<span class="accel">h</span>es</span>.

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From the Toolbox menu:

<span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Create New Dock</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Brushes, Patterns, and Gradients</span>.

This gives you a dock containing three dialogs, with the

Brushes dialog one of them.

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From the Toolbox, by clicking on the brush symbol in the

Brush/Pattern/Gradient area.

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From an image menu:

<span class="guimenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Brus<span class="accel">h</span>es</span>.

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From the Tab menu in any dockable dialog:

<span class="guimenu">Add Tab</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Brus<span class="accel">h</span>es</span>.

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From the Tool Options dialog for any of the paint tools, by

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clicking on the Brush icon button. Note that, depending on your

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Preferences, a brush selected in this way may only apply

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to the currently active tool, not to other paint tools. See

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the <a href="ch04s18s07.html" title="18.7. Tool Options">Tool Option

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Preferences</a> section for more information.

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<h3 class="title"><a id="id3339174"></a>Grid/List modes</h3>

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In the Tab menu, you can choose between <span class="guimenuitem">View as

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Grid</span> and <span class="guimenuitem">View as List</span>.

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In Grid mode, the brush shapes are laid out in a rectangular

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array, making it easy to see many at once and find the one you

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are looking for. In List mode, the shapes are lined up in a

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list, with the names beside them.

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<h3 class="title"><a id="id3339053"></a>Using the Brushes dialog (Grid mode)</h3>

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At the top of the dialog appears the name of the currently

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selected brush, and its size in pixels.

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In the center appears a grid view of all available brushes, with

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the currently selected one outlined. If you see a little "+" to

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the right of a brush, it means the brush is actually larger than

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it appears. If you see a little red triangle, it means the

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brush is an animated brush, also known as an "image hose".

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Clicking on a brush causes it to be selected as GIMP's current

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brush. Double-clicking activates the Brush Editor.

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Below the grid appears a scale entry for "Spacing", which is the

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distance between consecutive brush marks when you trace out a

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brushstroke with the pointer.

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The buttons at the bottom of the dialog allow you to operate on

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brushes in several ways:

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<span class="term">Edit Brush</span>

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This activates the <a href="ch04s10.html#gimp-brush-editor-dialog" title="Brush Editor">Brush

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Editor</a>. Pressing the button will open the Editor

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for any brush. It only works, however, for parametric

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brushes: for any other type, the Editor will show you the

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brush but not allow you to do anything with it.

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<span class="term">New Brush</span>

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This creates a new parametric brush, initializes it with a

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small fuzzy round shape, and opens the Brush Editor so

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that you can modify it. The new brush is automatically

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saved in your personal <tt class="filename">brushes</tt> folder.

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<span class="term">Duplicate Brush</span>

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This button is only enabled if the currently selected

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brush is a parametric brush. If so, the brush is

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duplicated, and the Brush Editor is opened so that you can

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modify the copy. The result is automatically

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saved in your personal <tt class="filename">brushes</tt> folder.

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<span class="term">Delete Brush</span>

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This removes all traces of the brush, both from the dialog

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and the folder where its file is stored, if you have

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permission to do so. It asks for confirmation before

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doing anything.

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<span class="term">Refresh Brushes</span>

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If you add brushes to your personal

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<tt class="filename">brushes</tt> folder or any other folder in

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your brush search path, by some means

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other than the Brush Editor, this button

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causes the list to be reloaded, so that the new entries

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will be available in the dialog.

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The functions performed by these buttons can also be accessed

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from the dialog pop-up menu, activated by right-clicking

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anywhere in the brush grid/list, or by choosing the top item,

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<span class="guisubmenu">Brushes menu</span>, from the dialog Tab menu..

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The Brushes dialog (List view)

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For the most part, the dialog works the same way in List mode as

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in Grid mode, with one exception:

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If you <span class="emphasis"><em>double-click</em></span> on the name of a brush,

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you will be able to edit it. Note, however, that you are only

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allowed to change the names of brushes that you have created

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or installed yourself, not the ones that come pre-installed with

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GIMP. If you try to rename a pre-installed brush, you will be

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able to edit the name, but as soon as you hit return or click

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somewhere else, the name will revert to its original value. It

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is a general rule that you cannot alter the resources that GIMP

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pre-installs for you: brushes, patterns, gradients, etc; only

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ones that you create yourself.

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<h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-brush-editor-dialog"></a>Brush Editor</h3>

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FIXME: Writing of this section is deferred until the user

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interface for this dialog stabilizes.

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<td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">9. Colors dialog </td>

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<td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 11. Patterns dialog</td>

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