Hi, On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:22 -0800, Christopher Howard wrote: > Though having a far from sufficient understanding of how the GIMP brush > painting process works, it seems to me like this is the fundamental > problem: In making black-and-white brushes semi-transparent, GIMP > somehow "levels out" the grey-scale, so that certain ranges of darkness > become the same. On a fuzzy brush, the result is that the fine > graduation is changed to appear stepped or banded. The problem here is that the brush masks are 8bit only. With such a limited set of values to start with, banding is basically unavoidable. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer