Hi Sveinn, On 12/24/07, "Sveinn ? Felli (IMAP)" <sveinki at nett.is> wrote: > Asif Lodhi wrote: ............. > > Another way is to create a filter yourself and save it as a brush then use > that. > This is the long way of trial and error many do wander. > I saw a phrase in the Krita handbook: "But you could ? with > a lot of work ? create a paintop that reads Corel Painter > XML brush definitions and uses those to determine how > painting is done." Don't know if anyone has done that but > since the brush definitions are in XML and CorelPaint has > zqrillions of brush effects it might be worth it.
You can save ANY drawing in Gimp as a brush which then gets loaded in the brushes palette the next time you start Gimp - you can then click it and start painting with it. So, if you can somehow get a charcoal effect, save it as a brush using File/Save As option. Then it will appear in your brushes palette the next time you start Gimp. You can then start using it immediately. I don't know whether Gimp uses XML or not but it doesn't matter because you don't have to know the underlying format in order to use it - you just have to use the "File/Save As" option, select the Gimp Brush as the file type and save the brush (probably with .gbr extension) in your ".brushes" folder. -- Asif
