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Irbeus In reply to Saraeustace91 [2018-05-31 13:44:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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Saraeustace91 In reply to Irbeus [2018-05-31 22:42:39 +0000 UTC]

You’re welcome 😀😉

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Irbeus In reply to Tinselfire [2018-05-31 13:42:59 +0000 UTC]

Hey! For almost all my stuff now I use a custom brush, but I use it for everything 'cause I'm a bit lazy hahaha. Maybe I should experiment a bit more with brushes, yeah

Thank you so much for your feedback!!  

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Tinselfire In reply to Irbeus [2018-05-31 17:04:15 +0000 UTC]

Know that feeling well. I pretty much only use three brushes in GIMP - the soft round, the blade and the no.1 oil - and out of those the no.1 oil brush far most frequently. Those three are close to being atomic. But also found that when it comes to leaves and flowers, they are basically large textured volumes with small, outstanding areas of interest.
Think you may be able to get very impressive results that do not clash with your style if you make some semi-random foilage brushes of your own, then detail the leaves by hand. Sort of like the universal remedy for the Photoshop grass brush.

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Irbeus In reply to Tinselfire [2018-06-02 13:28:06 +0000 UTC]

Whoa, that's a great idea, I've never thought of making custom foliage brushes, or any object-shaped brushes of my own xD I'm always focused on making brushes with just a nice texture. By the way, does GIMP have good traditional style brushes? I'm curious now, and I have no idea how that program works.

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Tinselfire In reply to Irbeus [2018-06-02 16:50:28 +0000 UTC]

For the most part, if you are financially able to use Photoshop and have a workstation that allows it to run smoothly, there is no reason to switch to GIMP. But for what it is, GIMP 2 is just shamelessly good.

Still, I am yet very much learning GIMP, but as far as I know GIMP has no user-friendly way of adjusting the origin points of size or hardness within a brush, so only been able to make believable traditional brushes in a roundabout way. GIMP 2.92 has some new functions that may solve that, but have not tried it myself. Also the clipping mask and blend layer systems in GIMP are about as powerful as those in Photoshop, but have a very different structure that sometimes hinders them: For example, blend layers in a group are always bound to that group. GIMP also lacks automatic layer effects - but then again, those are often more trouble than they were worth.

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Irbeus In reply to Tinselfire [2018-06-05 18:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Interesting, maybe I'll give it a try despite those issues. Maybe version 2.92 works fine. For now I've been trying Krita, which also works different than Photoshop, but as for what i've seen it's just a matter of getting used to it.

Thanks for the info

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Tinselfire In reply to Irbeus [2018-06-06 16:19:09 +0000 UTC]

You are most welcome. I have been recommended Krita as well, but have not touched upon it yet. The reason is simple, if not really defensible: I am very prone to analysis paralysis and can barely structure my studies as it is, so not certain it would be in my interest to split my focus between a lot of programs.
But then again...

Recently tried DPIV after not using it for twenty-five years, and the results turned out okay. Of course, it helps a lot that I know English these days, but still.
Maybe learning a third program would not be a bad idea after all.

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Irbeus In reply to Tinselfire [2018-06-13 22:58:17 +0000 UTC]

Well, you can always try and if you don't feel comfortable using several programs or with this program in particular, then uninstall it.

Whoa Deluxe Paint! I've never tried that program, the oldest thing I used was MS Paint on Windows 95

Btw sorry for the late reply, I've had lots of stuff to do lately  

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Irbeus In reply to BeautifulEscapsim [2018-05-31 13:44:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'm glad that you like it!  

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