Ive decided to make this post for people to have
a thread to link to when someone asks
"How?" and "Where?"

Edit: As of 8/9/07 I personally prefer to use the gimps user directory to install custom content, find that folder here. "C:\Documents and Settings\Sean-Michael\.gimp-2.2\brushes"



Key Words = Gimp Brushes, Installing,
Where do I put brushes,
How do I install brushes.

Very nice tutorial. Also for quicker acess so that you dont have to find that folder everytime you can create a new folder in my pictures, and then in gimp go to > File > Preferences > Folder > Brushes > and then set it up so where thats where the brushes go.... Okay ill stop talking now XD Anyway its a very nice tut for new comers Everybody I know is always asking me how to add brushes.

or just book mark thats what idid

Both are very good points and thankyou for adding it here!

i bet that you found out about my prob! lol thanks! i love tuts that help newbies like me!!! yay!!!

This really helped me out a hile back. So, since I joined now...

Thanks! :l:

i moved the brushes to the gimp brush folder and see them all there but i can figure out what to do next :s: and the tut dosent really help but it does a little

Thanks That helped me a lot! But it seems it always messes up Gimp :c: What did I do? I do exactly everything! (please email me it... I have issues with topics being replied to ^^; freak_flame246@yahoo.com)

[center]:o: ??Joking?? :
None of this could mess up Gimp!

I'm on a mac. In the prefs it tells me the brushes are located under /user/xxxx/.gimp-2.2/brushes, however, the folder does not show up. Do I need to access it from the cmd liine? If so what commands do i need to know to add the brushes to the folder? I have tried adding my own search paths but they always get deleted when I close the preferences window.

thank you very much

I am not sure what the cmd line syntax would be(probably $ cd /user/xxxx/.gimp-2.2/brushes) but the . in front of the .gimp-2.2 makes it a hidden folder. You can most likley enable the /user/xxxx/ folder to display your hidden files from the folder view window(in windows xp it is under: Tools>Folder Options>View)....I do not use mac so I can not be any more specific then that, sorry........

swmiller6

generally gimp have the brushes in 2 places :
- in this directory you wrote (for whole system)
- in your private user directory ( this is the hidden directory .gimp in your /home/user-derectory )

when I want to place some brushes to my user directory, I do not need to do it as root.
I simply copy them from command-line: cp brush.gbr ~/.gimp-2.2/brushes/
and that is all. Any time I can remove them from command line or by clicking.
I use Linux (Fedora Core 4). On Mac it should be similar. ( I suppose...)

Thx for the help barbara + sm. The cp cmd worked great. Is there a way to make the .gimp-2.2 folder visible? Or would removing the dot mess everything up...

hallo rozwell,
it is great idea to make some very important directories unvisible (like .gimp-2.0/ in personal home directory),
because nobody can make any click-mistake by accident and per example delete them or move somewhere.
Do NOT remove this dot on the beginning (*) - when you do it , gimp will not find it and will not work and will make 'first-run' and produce new hidden directory.
When you want to see all your hidden directories - change some preferences in your desktop environment or file-browser settings ( I am fast sure,
there is in Mac such option to make the hidden directories visible).

(*) this dot is part of name,
removing dot = changing name of directory

I folowed this guide step by step, but it's not working. I need some help.

Never mind, I got the brushes working. I don't know about you guys, but i like gimp better than photoshop.

wat happens if it saids

gimp message:

Your GIMP installation is incomplete

Failed to open file 'C:\\Program Files\\GIMP-20\\gimp\\2.0\\menus\\brushes-menu.xml': No such file or directory

Plase make sure themenu XML files are correctly installed

Message Repeated 3 times.


OK

I don't see it in gimp WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!

What operating system are you using?

hope I can make that happend..

What do you mean what operating system?

If you are in Linux (at least in ubuntu/debian) go to your home folder, From there press Ctrl+H (view hidden files) then there should be folder .gimp or .gimp-2.2, something along those lines. In it is a folder brushes. Put the brushes in there and your done. I'm kind of posting this for Linux people and possibly for Shadowgaara.

P.S. Hey! My first post and It's actually something useful.

I still don't see it.And all I have is the gimp brushes folder not the new thing you were talking BOUT.aND i EVEN EXTRACTED THE ZIP FOLDER TO GIME BRUSHES.

You found the folder marked gimp brushes-did you extract a folder inside it?
Try putting in just the files themselves, that's what I do-no folders inside GIMP brushes folder...if not...hm...