Posts Tagged gimp
Installing New Brushes in to GIMP
I’ve had a couple of people ask me how to install brushes to GIMP, it’s quite easy really:
First, download a set of brushes. Try deviantArt.com, they have an excellent selection of free brushes for GIMP, that’s where I got the brushes I use for the digital paintings I’ve been doing.
The brushes will probably come in a ZIP, or RAR, archive. Open the file using winZIP/winRAR (Windows) or arK (KDE), or FileRoller (GNOME). Select all the brushes in the archive and unarchive them to:
Windows:
C:/Program Files/GIMP2.0/share/gimp/2.0/brushes
Linux:
/home/username/.gimp-2.0/brushes
NOTE: in Linux, you may have to ’show hidden files’ to see the .gimp directory.
Your directory structure might be slightly different if you’re using a newer version of GIMP, but dig around a bit and you’ll find the brushes directory.
Now load up GIMP and you should see your new brushes! If not: click the ‘refresh’ button (bottom right) in the brushes tab.
Good luck!
Highland Cottage – a Bob Ross (Joy of Painting) style digital painting
I’ve had a few requests from YouTube viewers, asking if I could do a ‘How-To’ video, on how I do the Bob Ross style in GIMP.
Highland Cottage - Digital Painting. See how it's done, close up, on YouTube and Google Video.
What I did this time was to focus on where the pointer is, and what I’m doing. I had to speed up the video (again) due to the 10 minute limit on YouTube, but I’m also uploading the full 40min video to Google Video.
Here’s the 9min YouTube version:
And here’s the full 40min, Google Video, version…
Pathway – created using GIMP 2.6
Pathway - Digital Painting
As ever (lately) it’s creation can be seen on YouTube:
Yosemite – more Bob Ross (Joy of Painting) in GIMP
Yosemite - digital painting
The video of it’s creation can be seen on YouTube:
Painting Ed Gein in GIMP
Rather than doing a video of this painting (since I wasn’t sure if it’d be a keeper in the first place) I thought I’d do a step-by-step of what I did to achieve this final result:
Ed Gein - The Finished Painting
Info on how it’s done by clicking below…
Isle of Skye – GIMP painting and time lapse video
Another GIMP painting:
Isle of Skye - digital painting
… and another YouTube time-lapse video:
Valley Stream – another digital GIMP painting
The original image:
Valley Stream - click for a larger image
Again, the video of it being created is on YouTube:
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And a third GIMP painting on YouTube
My third GIMP painting:
The Valley
Video of it being created is up on YouTube:
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Another GIMP painting
I installed the snazzy new 2.6 version of GIMP on my TabletPC and gave it a spin by doing another painting. I’m getting to actually prefer GIMP over PainterX. PainterX is incredibly powerful but it has too many options, mediums, brushes etc. GIMP is just nice and simple. Hopefully the KDE4 Krita will bring a middle ground between GIMP and PainterX.
Anyway… here’s the finished ‘painting’:
The video of it being done is, as ever, on YouTube:
Bob Ross (Joy of Painting) technique in GIMP
I thought, for a change, I’d play around on the tablet PC and try and do some Bob Ross (aka: Joy of Painting) style art in GIMP, rather than the more complex Painter X. And, since I was in (yuck!) Windows, I used Camtasia to record the video, and have put it up on YouTube for the (somewhat deviant) world to see.
The finished image
To see it being painted, watch my Bob Ross Technique In GIMP video:
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