![]() In your GIMP folder go to Share, gimp, the version number, then brushes. You can find brushes anywhere, but GimpHelp and Softpedia have some pretty good ones. Arrow brushes usually come in one of two styles: a single arrow head with multiple directions or a variety of arrows that all point one way and need to be manually rotated. These use the paintbrush tool and are “painted on” as a static image. If you're not a fan of fiddling with paths and settings, you can use brushes instead. The arrow will be drawn as per your parameters. You can even make a double-headed arrow here if you like! Once you're done, click OK. If you want the arrow to be pointing toward the second point you clicked, untick this box. “Use first path point as arrow head?” will place the head where you first clicked. You can tweak the length of the arrow wings and the brush thickness here. Click on Tools, then the arrow plugin name.Ī lot of options will pop up. This is done by clicking the Path icon in the toolbox, then clicking on two spots on the canvas.Ī path will be formed between them. Scroll down to the category Folders, expand it if it's not already expanded, and click Plug-ins to see where GIMP keeps them. ![]() Open GIMP, then click Edit, then Preferences. If you're having issues finding the folder, you can see where GIMP keeps its plugins in the software itself. Once you find it, go to the “lib” folder, then “gimp,” then the folder with the current GIMP version number as the name, and then plug-ins. On Windows, this is typically in Program Files for Mac, it can be found in Applications Linux users may need to do some hunting, but it can typically be found in your home catalogue folder. If you've never installed a GIMP plugin, it can be a little confusing as to what to do with the. Alternatively, you can download a copy of the arrow.scm file from our Dropbox folder. There's a forum post that has the file - you need to click the download link at the bottom of the post instead of the top one to get it. It's a very useful plugin, so it's worth hunting down to solve your arrow-based problems. Thankfully, the original plugin is still available at other sources. Unfortunately, a lot of tutorials are now linking directly to a dead website as a solution! If you have the need to draw arrows, never fear – there are other ways to achieve this goal. Recently, however, the GIMP registry has gone down, and trying to access the link now only results in a blank page. You were able to head to the plugin site and download a script that could handle all your arrow-based needs without an issue. Drawing Arrows in GIMP used to be very easy.
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