GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 65118
Painting with "natural brushes" (including surface textures)
Last modified: 2009-07-15 23:16:47 UTC
This has been mentioned several times on the developers' mailing list but not entered yet in Bugzilla, so I am submitting this enhancement proposal for the record... It would be nice to be able to paint with "natural brushes" in the Gimp, like in Fractal Design Painter (which became MetaCreations, then Corel Painter, and maybe now ProCreate or something like that). These brushes take into account the texture of the paper and some properties of the brush (shape, pressure, tilt, ...). This can also be extended to include the properties of the ink, such as watercolors. Raph Levien has written a nice summary of this in 1997: http://www.levien.com/gimp/brush-arch.html Some of these techniques are implemented in his test program "Wet Dream": http://www.levien.com/gimp/wetdream.html Similar concepts relating to the properties of the paper and brush have been implemented in GIMPressionist, but not for interactive painting.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99458 ***
I don't know why this bug was marked as a duplicate of a bug that was entered later, but this is probably an error. Re-opening.
Further Ideas on this can be found in the following document. http://www.midcoast.com.au/~rgcoy/GimpUIIdeas.pdf
Changes at the request of Dave Neary on the developer mailing list. I am changing many of the bugzilla reports that have not specified a target milestone to Future milestone. Hope that is acceptable.
The URL field has been removed from bugzilla.gnome.org. This URL was in the old URL field, and is being added as a comment so that the data is not lost. Please email bugmaster@gnome.org if you have any questions. URL: http://www.levien.com/gimp/brush-arch.html
*** Bug 140161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/gimpbrush.html more ideas from David Hodson
i think that it would be good something like artrage!
*** Bug 413842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The consensus has since long been that natural brush simulation is out of the scope of the GIMP product vision. Adding proper natural brush simulation is a huge task. We will leave it up to other apps to do good natural brush simulations. Closing as WONTFIX.