Hi guys, i've had decent experience in photoshop and still boot up my vm to use it on occasions, but would prefer to switch to gimp for everything but i need to relearn all the stuff i learnt with photoshop. In photoshop i would select the brush tool and in the types of brushes there is a colour replacement brush. This is one tool i use very often when i'm making sprites, and at the moment i'm trying to make a different icon for clementine from the old limewire logo, and i don't know how to achieve the same result of the colour replacement brush from photoshop, in gimp; how do i do this?

You may want to try going to "Colors-> Map -> Color Exchange", and see if that can work for you. I know the tool you're talking about, and agree that it is very useful.

You're probably more experienced than I am, but I've also made a new layer for an image (solid color), then put the brush into "Color Erase" mode, and picking the color from the top layer, as what I want to erase.

Thanks for trying mate
wasn't quite the same though. I ended up fireing up ye ol vm

that sounds like using the fuzzy select ( select continuous color) then bucket fill

however for icons gimp might not be the best tool

look into using Inkscape

http://inkscape.org/

Inkscape I've heard of but never used, I'll have to give it a try, thanks

isn't inkscape a vector editor, not a photoshop like program?

If you're doing a logo or icon, you're presumably not using a lot of colours. If you convert to indexed colour (via Image > Mode > Indexed) you can then alter a colour in the palette (with Dialogs > Colormap).

My knowledge of Gimp is very basic, so if that's useful the credit belongs to Akkana Peck's book "Beginning Gimp: from novice to professional".