[hardrocker1508]

I got a question... I have the GIMP 2.2 and I added the brushes from here: http://www.deviantar.../view/12311264/

I added them in the brushes folder. Though when I refresh the brushes... they are not shown... I am relatively new to the program and brushes. Is there a reason why this is happening?

[fencepost]

Unless the brushes are specified as GIMP brushes, they won't work unless they are first converted using the abr2gbr plugin discussed elsewhere on the boards. Also, some Photoshop (*.abr files) and Paint Shop Pro (*.jbr) will not convert. Only the older ones will.

That said, check out the resources section and look at all the posts concerning brushes. There are some excellent links to sites that have abr and jbr files that can be converted. I've also created this excellent tutorial (*pats self on back :w:) and another brush creation tutorial (*tries again to pat self on back, but over stretched rotator cuff last time :l:)

Let me know if you still have problems.

BTW, welcome to the boards!

Art (fencepost)

[hardrocker1508]

Here is a pic of my brushes that I can use and the brushes in my folder.

As you can see, the ones that are from devianart.com are showing up there but not under the brushe menu. I refreshed the brushes but it still dosen't work. Any reasons why it is doing this?

[hardrocker1508]

oops....

http://i8.photobucke...08/scrnshot.jpg

There is the image.

[fencepost]

I don't have any thoughts right off hand. Have you shut down gimp and restarted? Also, make sure you don't have more than one brush folder. That happened to me when I first started with GIMP and GIMP was not finding the ones I wanted. I moved all the brushes to the same folder, deleted duplicate folder, and pointed gimp in the right direction.

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[hardrocker1508]

Yep, I had two folders and I was putting them in the wrong one! LOL

I appreciate your help on this!

[fencepost]

Glad that helped! I found out I was getting new folders created everytime I updated GIMP because I was also using the most recent GTK+. Ali told me that you don't need to update to the new GTK+ everytime. I haven't since then and haven't had the problem reoccur.

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[haloexpert]

hmm nice tut

[Tkill]

Its quit helpful thanks for the tut

[Lone Wolf]

that was really cool,except the problem solvers for the data error when saving and refreshing brushes didnt work for me,its the right file,its rgbarg(i hope i put that right)just like those guys said,i even restarted gimp and still nothing,i havnt updated gimp either so i dont have another folder,but if i did,where would it be?

[fencepost]

Hi, LoneWolf.

I'm not sure I understand your problem. You open up an RGB format image, but the brush is saved in gbr format. That's about all I can explain without additional information.

Art

[droz928]

Hello Lone Wolf . Try Flattening your image (Image>Flatten) than saveing it as a .gbr. If that doesn't work try Flattening and save it as a .gih file.

[The One]

nice tut helpful i wondered how ppl did that

[Lone Wolf]

im srry,im just gonna have to download brushes because i cant ave it no matter what,o well,im good at different bg's though....

[fencepost]

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Art

[Lone Wolf]

np,not ur fault,im prolly missing some instruction as how to get it done.

[ham]

thanks for posting how to do this, it's helped a lot, :)

[Lone Wolf]

alright!i did it!i saved a brush,not the spike one,but i made a sloar flare looking brush,really cool looking

[fencepost]

Glad it worked. Where were you going wrong?

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[Lone Wolf]

its gonna sound really stupid but i wasnt putting it in the drawing pad,i was trying to save it right out of the making thing


btw,i just updated gimp,and i think it added an extra brush folder,where would i find it to delete it?i have looked everywhere i can think of but i havent found it.thnx