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Answer to : How do I add new brushes to the Gimp?

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1. Obtaining Brushes The Gimp can access the following three brush types, .gbr, .gih, and .vbr. You can find a detailed description of each brush type here. There are many places to find new brushes for the Gimp... One of the best places is Fencepost And Droz928 Gimp Brush Resources found in the resources section of Gimptalk.com. A quick google search will turn up several other places to find brushes. 2. Unzipping your Brushes Almost all the brushes you can download off the Internet will come in a pack of brushes that are zipped together into a single zip file. This means before you can install your brushes for use, you will have to first unzip them. Windows xp users have a built in zip file manager. For prior Windows releases you will need to obtain a zip file manager from the web. There are several free zip managers available I would recommend 7-zip. Again a quick google search will turn up plenty of alternatives. Once you have a zip manager you can extract the brushes directly into your brushes directory. To find the active directories for your Gimp brushes first open the Gimp. After the Gimp has started up click on File and choose Preferences from the context menu as shown in figure 2.1 Fig 2.1 This will bring up the preferences dialog. choose the folders item from the left navigation area and click on the expand symbol to open the folders navigation section. From there choose the brushes folder as shown in fig 2.2 Fig 2.2 This dialog displays the folders the Gimp will look in to find your brushes. You may add a location if you choose, however the default locations should work just find. You may now extract your brushes into one of the locations using the zip manager of your choice. If you add, make writable or unwritable a brushes directory you will need to restart the Gimp for the changes to take effect. 3. Creating your own Gimp Brushes Fencepost has written a couple of tutorials for making your own Gimp brushes, you can find them here 1. Brush Tutorial 2. Brush Tutorial 4. Creating Resizable Brush Before you get to excited this will only work on brushes you create using the brush editor. This will limit your brushes to three basic shapes, square, circle, or diamond. One advantage to this setup is the ability to resize your brush dynamically with out have to click the desired brush size from the brushes menu. The first step is to create your new brush. Start by opening the brushes dialog window. See fig 3.1 and fig 3.2 Fig 3.1 Fig 3.2 Make the selection as shown above in fig 3.2. This will add the brushes dialog to the end of the docks options. Once you have it in the docks window you will choose the create new brush button from the bottom of the window as shown below in fig 3.3. Fig 3.3 This will bring up the create new brushes dialog. Select the setting you want for your new brush. These are editable and you may change them any time you wish or you may choose to create one for each available style. The create new brush dialog is shown below in fig 3.4 Fig 3.4 I created a hard Circular brush and named it Circle (00) so that it would show up as the first Circular brush in the brushes dialog. This will make it easier for me to find it when I want to use it. The final step is to make the brush resizable with out having to open your Brush editor every time you want to resize it. The first thing you need to do is open the preferences dialog. To do this click file and choose preferences from the context menu. See fig 2.1 Fig 2.1 From then preferences menu choose the following as shown in fig 3.5 then choose edit to set the Controller Event Action. Fig 3.5 Click on the expand symbol next to the word Context. Scroll down to find Increase Radius as shown in fig 3.6. Fig 3.6 Now repeat the last two steps only this time choose Scroll Down (shift) then edit and choose Decrease radius. Now when you select Circle (00) brush and you want to increase the brush size you can do so by pressing shift and using your center mouse wheel to scroll up and to decrease the size press shift and mouse scroll down. You can repeat the steps above and choose Scroll up (control) and set it to control your brushes hardness by selecting Increase Hardness and then Scroll down (control) and setting it to Decrease Hardness. Thats it now you have a dynamic brush.. You could set some of the other brush options to other empty event controllers if you like. *Note the screen shots are taken from Ubuntu Linux and not Windows. Your directory paths will not be the same as mine.

Answer to : How do I add new scripts to the Gimp?

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1. Obtaining new scripts The Gimp uses .scm (Scheme) file format for scripts. The best places to find scripts are 1http:// http//registry.gimp.org/index.jsp 2 http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/forum/GIMP-Plugins-Filters-and-Scripts-9-1.html ( new scripts are often added and could be not listed there ,but by browsing that linked sides you will find most of them A quick google search will supply you with plenty of downloadable scripts. 2. Installing your new scripts To find the active directories for your Gimp scripts folders first open the Gimp. After the Gimp has started up click on File and choose Preferences from the context menu. as shown in figure 2.1 Fig. 2.1 This will bring up the preferences dialog. Choose the folders item from the left navigation area and click on the expand symbol to open the folders navigation section. From there choose the scripts folder as shown in fig 2.2 Fig. 2.2 This dialog displays the folders the Gimp will look in to find your scripts. You may add a location if you choose, however the default locations should work just find. You may now download your scripts into one of the locations by right clicking the link and choosing save link as from the context menu. See fig 2.3 If you add, make writable or unwritable a scripts directory you will need to restart the Gimp for the changes to take effect. Fig. 2.3 3. Writing your own scripts Here is a few tutorial explaining how to write your own scripts. 1. tutorial 2. tutorial *Note the screen shots are taken from Ubuntu Linux and not Windows. Your directory paths will not be the same as mine.

Answer to : How do I add new fonts to the Gimp?

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1. Obtaining new Fonts GIMP 2.0 handles a variety of font formats, most notably TrueType, OpenType and Type1. You can download new fonts from many locations on the internet, I would recomend dafont.com. A quick google search will also supply you with plenty of alternatives. 2. Unzipping your New Fonts Almost all the fonts you can download off the internet will come in a zip file. This means before you can install your fonts for use, you will have to first unzip them. Windows xp users have a built in zip file manager. For prior Windows releases you will need to obtain a zip file manager from the web. There are several free zip managers available I would recommend 7-zip. Again a quick google search will turn up plenty of alternatives. Once you have a zip manager you can extract the fonts directly into your fonts directory. To find the active directories for your Gimp fonts folders first open the Gimp. After the Gimp has started up click on File and choose Preferences from the context menu. as shown in figure 2.1 Fig. 2.1 This will bring up the preferences dialog. choose the folders item from the left navigation area and click on the expand symbol to open the folders navigation section. From there choose the fonts folder as shown in fig 2.2 Fig. 2.2 This dialog displays the folders the Gimp will look in to find your fonts. You may add a location if you choose, however the default locations should work just find. You may now extract your fonts into one of the locations using the zip manager of your choice. The fonts directory under windows(example for Windows xp: C:/Windows/Fonts) will install your fonts system wide, meaning other applications like Microsoft® Word will also be able to access the new fonts you install. You can only install to this directory if you have administrator rights. If you do not have administrator rights you will need to install your fonts into the gimp folder located in your home directory. If you choose to install your fonts system wide you may need to add the C:/Windows/Fonts directory (or the correct directory for your operating system) to the Gimps folder search pereferences. If you add, make writable or unwritable a font directory you will need to restart the Gimp for the changes to take effect. *Note the screen shots are taken from Ubuntu Linux and not Windows. Your directory paths will not be the same as mine.

Answer to : How do I add new patterns to the Gimp?

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1. Obtaining new Patterns The Gimp uses .pat file format for patterns. New in GIMP 2.2 is the ability to use .png, .jpg, .bmp, .gif, or .tiff files as patterns. A quick google search will supply you with plenty of download able patterns. 2. Unzipping your New patterns Some of the patterns you can download off the Internet will come in a zip file. This means before you can install your patterns for use, you will have to first unzip them. Windows xp users have a built in zip file manager. For prior Windows releases you will need to obtain a zip file manager from the web. There are several free zip managers available I would recommend 7-zip. Again a quick google search will turn up plenty of alternatives. Once you have a zip manager you can extract the patterns directly into your patterns directory. To find the active directories for your Gimp patterns folders first open the Gimp. After the Gimp has started up click on File and choose Preferences from the context menu. as shown in figure 2.1 Fig. 2.1 This will bring up the preferences dialog. choose the folders item from the left navigation area and click on the expand symbol to open the folders navigation section. From there choose the patterns folder as shown in fig 2.2 Fig. 2.2 This dialog displays the folders the Gimp will look in to find your patterns. You may add a location if you choose, however the default locations should work just find. You may now extract your patterns into one of the locations using the zip manager of your choice. If you add, make writable or unwritable a patterns directory you will need to restart the Gimp for the changes to take effect. 3. Making your own patterns Here is a short tutorial explaining how to make your own patterns. 1. tutorial *Note the screen shots are taken from Ubuntu Linux and not Windows. Your directory paths will not be the same as mine.

Answer to : How do I add new palettes to the Gimp?

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1. Obtaining new palettes The Gimp uses .pal file type for color palettes. A quick google search will supply you with plenty of download able palettes. 2. Unzipping your New palettes Some of the palettes you can download off the Internet will come in a zip file. This means before you can install your palettes for use, you will have to first unzip them. Windows xp users have a built in zip file manager. For prior Windows releases you will need to obtain a zip file manager from the web. There are several free zip managers available I would recommend 7-zip. Again a quick google search will turn up plenty of alternatives. Once you have a zip manager you can extract the palettes directly into your palettes directory. To find the active directories for your Gimp palettes folders first open the Gimp. After the Gimp has started up click on File and choose Preferences from the context menu. as shown in figure 2.1 Fig. 2.1 This will bring up the preferences dialog. choose the folders item from the left navigation area and click on the expand symbol to open the folders navigation section. From there choose the palettes folder as shown in fig 2.2 Fig. 2.2 This dialog displays the folders the Gimp will look in to find your palettes. You may add a location if you choose, however the default locations should work just find. You may now extract your palettes into one of the locations using the zip manager of your choice. If the palette file you are downloading is not zipped and is a .gpl file then you may right click the link and choose save as from the context menu and save the file into your palettes directory. See Figure 2.3 If you add, make writable or unwritable a palettes directory you will need to restart the Gimp for the changes to take effect. Fig. 2.3 3. Creating/Importing your own palettes You can find information on creating and importing your own color palettes here. Palettes dialog *Note the screen shots are taken from Ubuntu Linux and not Windows. Your directory paths will not be the same as mine.

Answer to : How do I add new gradients to the Gimp

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1. Obtaining new gradients The Gimp uses .ggr file format for gradients. New in the Gimp 2.2 is the ability to load gradient files in SVG format. A quick google search will supply you with plenty of download able gradients. 2. Unzipping your New gradients Some of the gradients you can download off the Internet will come in a zip file. This means before you can install your gradients for use, you will have to first unzip them. Windows xp users have a built in zip file manager. For prior Windows releases you will need to obtain a zip file manager from the web. There are several free zip managers available I would recommend 7-zip. Again a quick google search will turn up plenty of alternatives. Once you have a zip manager you can extract the gradients directly into your gradients directory. To find the active directories for your Gimp gradients folders first open the Gimp. After the Gimp has started up click on File and choose Preferences from the context menu. as shown in figure 2.1 Fig. 2.1 This will bring up the preferences dialog. choose the folders item from the left navigation area and click on the expand symbol to open the folders navigation section. From there choose the gradients folder as shown in fig 2.2 Fig. 2.2 This dialog displays the folders the Gimp will look in to find your gradients. You may add a location if you choose, however the default locations should work just find. You may now extract your gradients into one of the active locations (there should be a check mark next to the directories that are active) using the zip manager of your choice. If the gradient file you are downloading is not zipped and is a .gpl file then you may right click the link and choose save link as from the context menu and save the file into the gradients directory. See Figure 2.3 If you add, activate or deactivate a gradients directory you will need to restart the Gimp for the changes to take effect. Fig. 2.3 3. Creating/Editing your own gradients You can find information on creating and editing your own color gradients here. gradients dialog *Note the screen shots are taken from Ubuntu Linux and not Windows. Your directory paths will not be the same as mine.

Answer to : I accidentally closed some Windows, and now they are gone!	BACK
Don't panic. Go into the toolbox menu and select Dialogues to choose the windows you want to see. For example, to reshow Tool Options go to Dialogues > Tool Options (you can also double-click a tool). If you want to re-dock the dialogue onto the main toolbox reference the following image: