Application recommendation: MyPaint

[foxfirefey]

So, maybe instead of wrestling with GIMP for painting (because it's designed as a photo editor more than a painting program), you're looking for a nice open source program to play with your tablet.

I just found out there's one called MyPaint--open source, available for multiple platforms! I'm not experienced enough in anything like this to know if it's actually good or not, but so far I've had fun playing with it. It's pretty simple, with a wide variety of brush types, and you can pretty much be up and running right away.

Brushes

[yvi]

As an aspiring icon and wallpaper-maker, and GIMP-user, I staretd searching for brushes for GIMP today. While textures are usually provided as .jpg s, brushes are a different beast. As I am searching for more, I will continue to update this post with resources.

How to add brushes to GIMP:
http://hawksmont.com/blog/gimp-how-to-add-brushes/
http://misguided0death.deviantart.com/art/Adding-new-brushes-GIMP-Tut-89594901
http://www.katspace.org/graphics/digitart/brushes/

Brushes:

• http://www.techzilo.com/gimp-brushes/ Collection of links to Deviantart - among others: grunge brushes, filmstrips, butterfly, water, blood, sparkles, and trees


• http://kward1979uk.deviantart.com/gallery/#/demfko hearts


• http://project-gimpbc.deviantart.com/gallery/ lots of brushes, including flowers, sparkles, snow, tribals, runes, stars,...


• http://visionwidget.com/resources/vectors/492-free-gimp-brushes.html High-resolution brushes - links go to DeviantArt


• http://pstogimpbrushes.deviantart.com/gallery/ Lots and lots of brushes again :)

EDIT: Okay, appearantly from version 2.4 on you can also use Photoshop brushes on GIMP? I never knew, even though I have 2.6. Huh.