Brushes

A brush has the appearance of a stroke of the paintbrush tool in the program. GIMP 2.6 comes with 47 standard brushes not including downloaded ones. Some brushes are very basic and have a limited range of uses. Brushes are commonly downloaded because of the limited selection preloaded into the program. You can download extra brushes on www.deviantart.com and www.Gimp-Tutorials.net. You install them by saving the .zip file anywhere on your computer, extract the files into the Brushes folder, whose location varies between operating systems and GIMP versions. If the folder doesn't exist already, create it. UNIXes (not Mac) and Linux: ~/.gimp- /brushes/

Windows XP and above: %APPDATA%\.gimp- \brushes\

MacOS X: /Library/Application Support/Gimp/brushes/