![]() If you don’t store your paintbrush properly in the interim, the paint will dry out and your brush will become gross and unusable. I rarely have more than a couple of hours at a time to work, so I often need to store my paintbrush for several hours or even a couple of days between painting sessions. Sometimes you won’t finish up a painting job in one go. You’ll notice a huge difference in how easy your brushes are to clean (and how much better they are for use after cleaning) if you start paying closer attention to how much paint you’re loading up on the brush and commit to stop overloading it with as much paint as possible! Store Properly Between Painting Sessions You can see in the photo below, the brush on the left has been properly loaded and the brush on the right has been over loaded! If the paint goes all the way to the handle, you’ve got too much! Over time, that brush will become unusable pretty quickly just because you used too much paint at a time. So, when it dries, it stiffens the bristles and makes the brush harder to use. When you overload the paintbrush and allow paint to get all the way down to the base of the brush, it’s a lot harder to clean that paint fully out of the brush. Why? Well, the key of having a paintbrush that works well for you and is easy to use is that the bristles are able to easily move and bend in the direction you want them to. You should never load up your brush with more than about a two-finger width of paint. This is honestly maybe the most important tip there is when it comes to taking care of your paint brush! Grabbing a brush that isn’t overly cheap is going to go a long way when it comes to cleaning it later – and you’ll probably be more motivated to keep a nice brush clean, too! Don’t Overload the Brush The first thing to consider is that a high-quality paint brush will always last longer and clean easier than a cheap one! I’ve been pretty loyal to my Wooster Shortcut brushes for a long, long time, and they’re definitely my go-to for just about every project. That’s right – getting your paintbrush fully clean and keeping it looking great starts before you’ve even finished your paint job. I can just get that into a one minute animation.How to Clean a Paintbrush: Before You StartĬleaning a paintbrush is a pretty simple task, but did you know there are a couple of tips I have for you that will come into play looooong before you even need to clean it?! Into LibreOffice (LO), it should be the correct size as original signature, can be scaled in LO if required. Both png and tif formats support transparency, Gimp tiff export is now littered with options so I recommend png format.ħ. Gimp Saves in xcf format which keeps layers / guides / selections / all sorts of info.įor your signature file you export. This I change the ink colour blue -> black using the Exposure tool but there are other ways, just experiment.Ħ. (optional) Various ways to adjust the image if required. Nothing else required if BG is white, otherwise pick the color.ĥ. Colors -> Color-to-Alpha to remove the Background. ![]() (optional) If the scan is a little on the faint side an option is Filters -> Generic -> ErodeĤ. Use 300 ppi which will fit in better with whatever document application you use.ģ. Not shown in the video which used inch rulers but the scan/image resolution does matter. ![]() The signature was from a scan, and while there might be tweaks required in Gimp for colour / textured paper I might go this way.ġ. I think the Gimp 2.10 equivalent is the brush in Legacy mode and Hard Light (i) mode. If the object is to remove the white border pixels it is not a good method. I think something missing from the video, even with Gimp 2.6 painting in overlay mode was not as shown.ĮDIT: I am wrong, using a Gimp 2.8 and a brush in overlay mode works as in the video. For example the commentary "Now to scrape off the paint" Ok eraser on background -hmm fuzzy select signature -hmm Well, even Gimp 2.6 had a color-to-alpha tool. ![]() That video is 13 years old and Gimp 2.6 Old tutorials can be useful, if you read between the lines and apply to an up-to-date Gimp. ![]()
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