On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:31:11PM +0200, Raphael Quinet wrote: > 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. > > 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. > I would vote for: http://tigert.gimp.org/files/gimp/pencil-sketch-hose/ as some pipes to include. These are very nice, demonstrate an interesting useage of the pipes, and are actuall useful. I belive these were originally created by narazaki? If so, and you dont mind them being included, lets add them. > By the way, I think that the current gimp-data-extras contain too many > "abstract" brushes and patterns. Definately remove the "atari" brushes. They arent useful,and are pretty much never used. I just added them on a whim after the brush saving plugin was created. > 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. Well, if someone has the time, we could resurect the contest scripts and info and perhaps use that. Alternatively, it might be easy to create a source forge page for it, though I dont see where that would make it easier to upload. Adrian
