Except for the vines and green pepper, the latest version of the Gimp ships with basically the same set of brushes as version 1.0. Even the gimp-data-extra package does not contain anything that demonstrates the power of the pixmap brushes or pipes. It would be good to add two or three high-quality brushes to the default brushes shipped with version 1.2. There should be no more than two or three new brushes (no bloatware), if possible showing different features of the pixmap brushes/pipes: orientation, sequence, and so on. Of course we can add even more brushes and patterns in the corresponding gimp-data-extras package, but the default distribution should be reasonably small. There are many pages containing nice PSP tubes, for example: http://bart.northnet.com.au/~robrow/tubes/downloads.htm http://www.cablevision.qc.ca/renlev/tubes.html But we cannot convert them to Gimp brushes without violating some copyrights or some of the limitations that they put on redistribution. So we should try to create our own copyright-free brushes. By the way, I think that the current gimp-data-extras contain too many "abstract" brushes and patterns. It would be nice to have some good images of stones, leaves, wood, flowers, grass, sky, fur,... that are scanned directly from Mother Nature. I have just started doing that myself, but I would be good if several of us could do it so that we could have a nice collection. Some of the PSP tubes are good examples of the kind of high-quality stuff that we should distribute with gimp-1.2 (some are bad examples too; just ignore them). I am not sure about how to coordinate this effort and how to select the best brushes and patterns (we need only the best stuff in the distribution). Any suggestions? If nobody volunteers, maybe I could collect the submissions (by e-mail?), put them on some web page and then wait for comments, but I would only do that as a last resort because being behind a firewall prevents me from setting up some automated process. That's why I am asking here for ideas and volunteers instead of posting a request directly on the gimp-users list or in comp.graphics.apps.gimp. I would be nice to do that before 1.2 is released. -Raphael