Hello all,
sitting here on a hot & wndy morning in rural NSW Australia.

have been using GIMP for a month or so & loving it.
am really getting to understand the simpler functions & getting some great fx.

Am playing with brushes at the moment but seem to have made or accumulated way to many. Is there any way to organise these things? I mean rather than have them all in one huge folder???

any suggestions / tricks

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Are you adding these brushes to your gimp/brushes folder?

As far as I can tell the brushes directory in your profile can have subdirectories that are automatically taken in account(this is also true of others). You can also use Edit/Preferences/Folders to add/remove directories of brushes (and fonts, palettes, patterns...)

yes - am adding brushes to the correct folder


I am finding a HUGE brush display really unwieldy

is there any way of using folders in the display. so that, say I have 150 brushes of flowers and I want to isolate those, but still be able to use them immediately?

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I'm using GURM, to put them into categories. That way, I can select certain sets of brushes to use, and deselect ones I am not using, thus keeping my brushes dialog organized and keeping the load size low for GIMP.

You can find GURM, here:

http://registry.gimp.org/node/13473

Hi and welcome, AlpacaDesign

Yes Gimps Unified Resource Manager works excellent for me also.
If you need any help setting up the gurm.ini file holler at one of us.

How exactly does GURM access these resources? Can they be stored outside of the 2.0 and 2.6 folders?

Yes, you create your paths to the outside folders using the GURM.ini file. It's really simple to set up and use, and the most beneficial part of its use is to keep the GIMP boot time to a minimum, by not having to load HUGE user dialog folders (brushes, patterns, gradients, palettes, etc.) because they are no longer in the path when GIMP loads.

Naturally, you have to keep the non-used dialog folders de-activated (brushes not in use, for example), otherwise if you have GURM set up, and ALL your dialogs active at the same time, that wouldn't be an effective use of GURM.

On the other hand, GURM allows you to set up sub-folders to help you identify the content of the folders, like I have a snowflake folder with all my snowflake brushes. When I need the brushes, I activate the snowflake folder. When done, I deactivate it.

Argh

went to Python.org - what version is best???
any extra I need to know?

I don't have a definitive answer for Python version, but since you don't have it loaded at present. I'd recommend 2.6.3 through 2.7, but just for clarification, some py plug-ins created in older Python versions won't work in newer Python versions, some due to deprecation, etc. So, having said this, should you decide to use 2.7, you may run across older py plug-ins that won't run (at least not until the code has been fixed to allow it).

At present, GURM is running using 2.7, on my machine.

You'd be better off following a tutorial to get Python installed (two good ones are):

http://photocomix-resources.deviantart. ... r-74889017

and

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/inst ... ndows.html

Mahvin - Thanks for the info. I was really getting tired of waiting for gimp to load. Sounds like GURM is the cat's meow for managing bloated resources. I'll play with it tomorrow and see what happens.

I would imagine that it would not hurt to move some of the resident brush, texture. etc. files as well since I never use some of them.

isn't this feature native in 2.8?