[Forkjulle]

After upgrading to Gimp 2.8, I am loving the single window mode. But the brushes are working a bit differently to 2.6.

I work, mostly, on A4 pages at 300DPI. So when I want to enlarge a brush, I like to use a custom shortcut to quickly upscale the brush so that I can to a large size quickly.

This happened nicely in 2.6. However, in 2.8, I can't find a way to quickly upscale the brush in the same way. I've created the same custom shortcut, but the upscaling takes a lot longer to reach the desired scale. It's a case of holding down the keyboard shortcut and then waiting while the brush gets bigger.

Is there a way to speed up that upscale motion?

EDIT: In other words, is there a way to make the "increase brush size more" function increase its increments?

This post has been edited by Forkjulle: 14 May 2012 - 05:57 PM

[Solartide]

Easiest way to increase brush size a lot is click and drag on the Size bar, A quick flick to the right makes the brush huge.

Are you working on 300 dpi or ppi?

This post has been edited by Solartide: 14 May 2012 - 06:27 PM

[billps]

Just click and drag on the size slider in the tool options under the tool box - you can keep dragging it way beyond the apparent end of the slider to make huge brushes.

[Forkjulle]

No, that's not good enough or nearly intuitive enough. Dragging the slider beyond the limit - and guessing where I should stop, is nonsense.

I've reverted to Gimp 2.6 because it increases brush sizes more intuitively.

This post has been edited by Forkjulle: 15 May 2012 - 01:55 PM

[billps]

It may be unintuitive, but it works.

By the way you don't have to guess at all, the size is still indicated in pixels.