Photoshop brushes -SOLVED

[RJKD]

Am I missing a trick? or being typically 'Richard'? Once again I find a Gimp tutorial I think is worth taking and part of the resources are .abr brushes, I've never been able to use these in Gimp, is there a way to? or convert them to a .g or .v Gimp brush?

[dinasset_1]

I have .abr brushes in a subfolder under my user brushes_storage folder. I can "activate" them thru Ofnuts' addonCollectionManager-3.0.
Just activated now for you.
Since Gimp 2.4 they are supported directly by Gimp.
This is a BG "Painted" with .abr animals brushes
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[RJKD]

Thank you dinasset, I just put the brush set into a folder in AddOnManager and they work fine (more than can be said for my brain!) a whole new vista dawns for me.

[rich2005]

A little academic these days but you can open a PS brush set (.abr) as a graphics file (File -> Open) using a old plug-in abr-brush-loader.

Why would you want to do this? Usual reason, export a single brush (a layer) as a native Gimp .gbr brush, maybe after modifying it a little.

Where can you get this plugin? I compile my own for linux, but Windows users try
http://registry.gimp.org/node/8643 which I assume is 32 bit and
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13433 for a 64 bit version.

A screenshot as an example:

[RJKD]

Thanks Rich, when I tried to run Abr Brush Loader I got message - can't open libgimp-2.0-0 dil is missing (I'm reluctant to re-install for 2 reasons, I am frightened of loosing various 'add-ons' I've collected and that knowing me I'll cock it up completely, however, I must trust those who've trod before, what action would you (an open question) take if you were me, not so bright on the tech side?

[rich2005]

Was that the 32 bit plugin? - It is old and that error message will come from an updated and recent Gimp.

If you have a 64 bit system then Rod's version might work.

Anyway, I added that for interest, useful if you have to trawl through lots of abr brushes looking for a particular one.

If you need to make a single gimp .gbr brush, then the obvious, set the brush to its natural size, .abr brushes tend to be large. Stamp on a (grayscale) canvas, crop to size, export as a .gbr brush.

[RJKD]

Yep, 32 bit. I am considering updating my machine, it would seem a lot of modelling and other applications require 64 bit. I would really appreciate any suggestions as to what machine would a good idea, I only really use my machine (levono laptop, cost around £300 about 4 yrs ago) for my plays on Gimp, visiting Gimp forums and image/resources site online? - open question.

[Wallace]

Yep, 32 bit. I am considering updating my machine, it would seem a lot of modelling and other applications require 64 bit. I would really appreciate any suggestions as to what machine would a good idea, I only really use my machine (levono laptop, cost around £300 about 4 yrs ago) for my plays on Gimp, visiting Gimp forums and image/resources site online? - open question.

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