Circle Brushes - 1.0
4/24/2006
Initial release

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To install:
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Stick them in the GIMP brushes folder and either 
"refresh brushes" or restart the GIMP.
I put them in the system-wide folder, 
on my Slackware machine this folder is located at:
/usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes

You should also have a local brushes folder at:
~/.gimp-2.x/brushes

On Windows this should be:
<GIMP_INSTALL_FOLDER>\share\gimp\2.0\brushes
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About:
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Circle brushes are my third brush 
collection for use in the GIMP. 

It was 'brush week' for me :)

Making circles is a bit of a pain with 
the GIMP. I know the Make a circular selection, 
fill it black, shrink it, fill it white thingy -- 
but come on already... if I can 'rubber stamp' a 
premade circle brush where I need it instead, 
wouldn't that be kinda nice?

These were fairly easy, in theory. I had to add 
a bit of extra feathering to the above technique to 
get nice circles in all the sizes. Also several 45-degree 
rotations which smoothed out a lot of upper-end noise.

I also tried exporing from Inkscape, but the paths I 
converted to bitmaps did not work out as well as I had 
hoped and wound up sticking with the GIMP to create all 
of them.

Sizes I made are:
6,12,15,20,24,30,40,50,60,80,100,140,200,300,400,500 and 600.
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Use them for anything you'd like. 
If you redistribute them, 
please include this file.

I post these, and perhaps make updates, at gimphelp.org.
All the items will also be included (in png format) 
at wpclipart.com, the Public Domain clipart site.

Enjoy.

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Paul Sherman
psherma1@rochester.rr.com
