GIMP Version: 2.6.11
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: XP - SP3
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

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Hello!

I have been using gimp for a little over a year now and have been having a blast uploading and using brushes. However, once I reached 3,700 brushes...gimp stopped working.

Is there a limit on how many brushes you can use and if so....can anyone help me with how to keep all my brushes but be able to use them without installing and uninstalling them every time i need them?

Thanks so much!

Amy

I don't know the answer to your question but just thought I'd say welcome to Gimpchat. I'm sure somebody else will answer soon.

You can keep your brushes in several folders and add/remove the folders using Edit/Preferences/Folders (Gimp's flat list of brushes makes 3700 active brushes (or even a couple of hundreds) unmanageable anyway).

There is also the GURM plugin.

Thanks for the warm welcome and thanks for the information. Greatly appreciated.

Welcome to Gimp Chat aimless. I too am a brush addict and having that many sounds like you just need to organize a bit. It must take forever for Gimp to load all those brushes on start up. Like Ofnuts suggested, GURM is really handy for organizing and you can check which ones you want GIMP to load and which ones to keep in reserve. Even though you have a ton of brushes, I think you will find after playing with them for a bit, you don't really use ALL of them all that often so you can keep them "dormant" until you need them. Gimp loads really fast after that.

I agree with previous that you'll need to use better organization ... but what in the world do you need 3700 brushes for in the first place?
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Griatch (which uses the same 1-3 brushes since many years)

i had thousands of brushes installed but as now i keep all in stand by (with GURM) most of the times (let say in 99% of the cases)
and usually i use only the parametric brushes
(that ones you may modify from the brush editor , simple shapes as circles, ellipses, squares & polygons

The only miss i miss are yet not existing in gimp, "rings" (circles ellipses or poligons with empty center ) and spirals

But to be honest i don't miss them much

I know.I moved all mine into GURM folders and i hardly call them in.
Guess i never really needed them.
Now i use around 200 or so.

I wish someone could help me control my font downloads.

Font Downloaders Anonymous. You know it makes sense

As soon as i saw this i went and googled Font Downloaders Anonymous ...
And yes i downloaded 2 more fonts.