The brush takes the color of the foreground color which can be set up via the swatches
The opacity for the brush is in the Brush Tool Options Owen > I use Gimp in my photography. Until now, that's all I have used it > for. > Today, I came across a text document in pdf format, and it is probably > protected > in some way such that my pdf reader cannot highlight anything. > > Since it is important that I highlight this document in order to make > use of it, > I figured I would open it in Gimp, export as tiff, at which point, I > should be > able to open the tiff file and paint with a semi-transparent brush to > highlight > sections of text as necessary. > > Unfortunately, search though I may, I cannot find in Gimp where one > selects or > changes the brush color. > > I've searched online, and most subjects that come up have to do with > how to make > brushes. I don't need to design a brush. I just want to bring up a > palette > that will allow me to paint over the drawing with a red brush, or > yellow, etc. > > I even opened one of my color photos thinking that there might be a > problem with > the tiff that I had created, but I cannot find any dialog box that > deals with > the brush color attribute. > > I'm certain the answer is before my eyes, but they are not finding it > for me. > Advice would be most welcome. > > Caruso > -- Owen _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
