Hey guys, I know this sounds like a novice question (but then again, I'm pretty much still a novice), but how do I make brushes for Gimp that use the foreground color as the color for painting? I have read through both the GIMP users manual, and a few online tutorials, and have managed to create a brush, but it only paints solid black, regardless of what the foreground color is set to. I have tried a couple different methods for making the brush, and no joy.

First Method:

1. Create new doc (rbg color).
2. Create new transparent layer.
3. Create brush shape (colored black) on the new layer.
4. Delete Background layer.
5. Save doc as a .gbr file in the brushes folder of Gimp (in the users, documents and settings path).

This method got me a brush that only painted using solid black.

Second Method:

1. Create new doc (greyscale color).
2. Set the background color to gray (50%).
3. Create new transparent layer.
4. Create brush shape (colored black) on the new layer.
5. Flatten image.
6. Save doc as .gbr file etc.

This method got me a brush with a gray background color.

Ahrgh! Can somebody pleas help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?