Automating Brush Insertion

Question

Very new to Gimp and unfortunately also in need of producing an output :)

I am looking to automate a repetitive task of placing instances of existing brushes in an image. Can anyone point me in the direction of the command that I might use to achieve this, or tell me if this is even possible with Gimp scripting?

many thanks

What do you mean with "placing isntances of existing brushes in an image"? Just a stamp of each brush? Or do you require that for animated brushes, there is a stamp of all it's cells? Should the brush name be stamped as well? — jsbueno, Mar 25 '14 at 05:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 06:12

Yes, if by this question you mean to "stamp" each brush in the imagem it is possible to do that via scriptting.

I'd recomend setting to Python for that - it is not a little bit complicated because yu willhave to deal with with things like image width, and such in order to fit all brushes - but it should be less than 30 lines of code.

It can be done interactively from filters->Python-fu->console - from there you can make PDB calls - press the "browse" button to check what is available.

You can do, for example, just create a new image in GIMP, open up the Python console, and paste this code into it:

img = gimp.image_list()[0]

SIZE = 30

brush_list = pdb.gimp_brushes_get_list(None)[1]

x, y = 0,0
pdb.gimp_context_set_brush_size(SIZE)
for brush in brush_list:
    pdb.gimp_context_set_brush(brush)
    pdb.gimp_paintbrush_default(img.layers[0], 2, [x + SIZE // 2,y + SIZE // 2])
    x += SIZE
    if x + SIZE >= img.width:
        x = 0
        y += SIZE

pdb.gimp_displays_flush()

Automating Brush Insertion

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