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photoshop brush flow corresponding setting?

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photoshop brush flow corresponding setting? peter kostov 16 Dec 18:12
  photoshop brush flow corresponding setting? Steve Kinney 17 Dec 08:37
   photoshop brush flow corresponding setting? peter kostov 17 Dec 10:11
peter kostov
2011-12-16 18:12:48 UTC (over 12 years ago)

photoshop brush flow corresponding setting?

Hi,
I am reading some drawing tutorials for Photoshop and they talk about a setting of the brush called "flow". Is there a corresponding setting in GIMP and where it is?

Edit: After some additional searching I found that the option is called "incremental", but I also found that it doesn't work as described in the docs - it is not limited to the opacity set for the tool.

I am using GIMP 2.6.11 on Gentoo Linux

Greetings, peter

Steve Kinney
2011-12-17 08:37:30 UTC (over 12 years ago)

photoshop brush flow corresponding setting?

On 12/16/2011 01:12 PM, peter kostov wrote:

Hi,
I am reading some drawing tutorials for Photoshop and they talk about a setting of the brush called "flow". Is there a corresponding setting in GIMP and where it is?

Edit: After some additional searching I found that the option is called "incremental", but I also found that it doesn't work as described in the docs - it is not limited to the opacity set for the tool.

Hey,

I never heard of that one before, but it is described in some detail, with sample images, here: http://tinyurl.com/cdcb8jt

I don't think there is an equivalent GIMP brush setting, but I do think that the intended effect can be obtained by adjusting the diameter and "hardness" of a brush. For this it is handy to have a user-created brush (or several of them) in your Brushes tab, and the Brush Editor tab turned on, in your dialogs dock.

Here's the brush editor dialog, showing a "fuzzy" hardness setting that should give about the same results in practical use as a brush tweaked with the "flow" setting:
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/7206/brusheditor.jpg

Also this shows, IMO, the real "most basic arrangement of GIMP windows that can be used effectively

peter kostov
2011-12-17 10:11:23 UTC (over 12 years ago)

photoshop brush flow corresponding setting?

On 12/17/2011 10:37 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:

I never heard of that one before, but it is described in some detail, with sample images, here:http://tinyurl.com/cdcb8jt

I don't think there is an equivalent GIMP brush setting, but I do think that the intended effect can be obtained by adjusting the diameter and "hardness" of a brush. For this it is handy to have a user-created brush (or several of them) in your Brushes tab, and the Brush Editor tab turned on, in your dialogs dock.

I think a better explanation of the flow option is this one: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/brushes/photoshop-brush-options-bar.php

And no, flow has nothing to do with diameter and hardness. I would call it "additive drawing" because with each pass over the same area more color is added even if you don't release the mouse button at all. The thing is that in GIMP the "incremental" option isn't adjustable, it is only on or of, plus it doesn't work as it should, like I said before.

Peter