how do you add color to brushes?

Turkle35 · **Joined:** Nov 10, 2015 **Posts:** 7

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User

So I downloaded some blood brushes from deviantart and put them on GIMP but they are black and white???? can someone please tell me to add the appropriate color onto the brush? please try and explain as bassic as possible as I am very new. thanks.

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2015 6:39 am **(#2)**

Turkle35 wrote:

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User

So I downloaded some blood brushes from deviantart and put them on GIMP but they are black and white???? can someone please tell me to add the appropriate color onto the brush? please try and explain as bassic as possible as I am very new. thanks.

If you paint all the blood using the blood brushes on their own layer.
You can select, Color>Colorize, as I did in the example images below.
To add color to the blood.

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ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Turkle35 wrote:

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User

So I downloaded some blood brushes from deviantart and put them on GIMP but they are black and white???? can someone please tell me to add the appropriate color onto the brush? please try and explain as bassic as possible as I am very new. thanks.

If the brush is grayscale, then black/white indicate opacity (black being opaque, the opposite of layer masks) and the brush assumes the foreground color. If the brush is RGB (even if it's all gray) then Gimp uses the brush color (and alpha channel).

Turkle35 · **Joined:** Nov 10, 2015 **Posts:** 7

thankyou guys!