150 Extra GIMP Brushes for Ubuntu
I love playing around with GIMP, it's a fantastic piece of software. I use it to design websites and web graphics. I have to admit that it took me a while to really get used to using it. I was used to using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks. GIMP in comparison to these seemed archaic and not too user friendly. I can see now that this is not the case and I'm glad that I persevered and continued to use GIMP. GIMP is now my friend.
Anyhow, by default GIMP comes with a rather limited set of brushes. There's a package available from the Ubuntu repositories to install some extra brushes, however this is also a little limited. To this end, I've created a new package containing over 150 additional brushes for GIMP.
Example GIMP brushes included in the package
Solid square brushes, ideal for leaders, dotted leaders and headers [best used with Pen tool]:
Various pixel shape brushes, again ideal for decorative leaders etc [best used with Pen tool]:
Miscellaneous shaped brushes for decorative use [best used with Brush tool]:
Barcode brushes, not overly useful but a personal favourite :)
Star and snowflake brushes, ideal for creating those Christmas greeting cards [best used with Brush tool]:
Get the Brushes
I've made the brushes available through a number of sources. Firstly you can get the .deb package directly from my PPA on Launchpad: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10450525/gimp-brushes_0.0.1~ppa1_all.deb
The .tar.gz archive file is also available here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10450317/gimp-brushes_0.0.1~ppa1.tar.gz
Or to install via apt simply follow the instructions below [only tested with Gutsy]:
1. Open your apt sources.list file for editing with the following terminal command:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Add the following two lines to the bottom of the file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/corenominal/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/corenominal/ubuntu gutsy main
3. Close gedit and issue the following terminal command to update apt:
sudo apt-get update
4. Still in the terminal, enter the following command to install the package:
sudo apt-get install gimp-brushes
5. Enjoy your new GIMP brushes!
License
The brushes are licensed under GPL. Please feel free to modify, repackage and redistribute — it would be good if people created packages native to their Linux distros.
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