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.abr brushes - eingram25 - 05-07-2017
Running 2.8.20 under Windows 10
I've gotten a couple of .abr brushes from deviant art.
I've installed them in: C:/users/ED/Gimp-2.8/brushes.
They don't show up after starting Gimp.
Do I need to put them somewhere else?
RE: .abr brushes - rich2005 - 05-07-2017
(05-07-2017, 11:12 AM)eingram25 Wrote: Running 2.8.20 under Windows 10
I've gotten a couple of .abr brushes from deviant art.
I've installed them in: C:/users/ED/Gimp-2.8/brushes.
They don't show up after starting Gimp.
Do I need to put them somewhere else?
Are you sure that you are using your correct gimp profile C:/Users/ED/.gimp-2.8/brushes (not C:/users/ED/Gimp-2.8/brushes.)
otherwise
Should work. Make sure when you unzip the archive to dump the _MACOSX folder and just use the single file SS-skin-textures.abr
Looks like this on my installation.
![[Image: h9Lmgqk.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/h9Lmgqk.jpg)
If you have problems they can be converted to individual gimp .gbr bruhes.
RE: .abr brushes - eingram25 - 05-07-2017
[attachment=515]
screenshot of file system
[attachment=516]Don't see the brushes anywhere.
RE: .abr brushes - rich2005 - 05-07-2017
Looks to me like they are there:
![[Image: d6tXi8w.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/d6tXi8w.jpg)
RE: .abr brushes - rich2005 - 05-07-2017
I see you have had similar problems before. If you are going to use many brushes then the best action is use a resources manager to control what is installed.
However, a simple way is use sub-folders for different classes of brush. Then the folder name will show up as a tag.
![[Image: VCLxI3R.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/VCLxI3R.jpg)
A bit more about it here, which maybe you missed first time round.
http://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Brushes-and-Tags?pid=1815#pid1815
RE: .abr brushes - eingram25 - 05-08-2017
I guess I was expecting skin colored brushes.
So what I did was to delete the downloaded ones, and I created my own .gbr brushes. This is pretty simple really.
Now you have intrigued me with the mention of a resource mgr.
What do you recommend for that?
RE: .abr brushes - rich2005 - 05-08-2017
(05-08-2017, 03:56 AM)eingram25 Wrote: I guess I was expecting skin colored brushes.
Those PS brushes are greyscale and take whatever is the foreground colour. You can mix your own skin tone or use a pre-made palette. You can often find these same place as your brushes.
example http://palettes.deviantart.com/art/10-Light-Skintone-Palettes-103148090
These go in your palettes folder C:\Users\your-name\palettes and show in the palettes dialogue.
Windows -> Dockable Dialogues -> Palettes and make a Palette active
Then click on the FG swatch to bring up the Change FG dialogue and colour pick a colour.
This screen shot shows the main objects. An active palette, the palettes tab in the Change FG dialogue and the color picker. Edit: you do not actually need the color picker, just click on the color you want.
[attachment=518]
For the amount of brushes you have at the moment, a resources manager is a little over-kill. Keep categories of brush in sub-folders and use tags
Quote:Now you have intrigued me with the mention of a resource mgr. What do you recommend for that?
However. Resource managers. There are a couple of alternatives, but Ofnuts is comprehensive and relatively easy to implement. see: http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/managementtools.shtml for information
and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ for the plugin addonCollectionManager-3.0.py about 29 down.
Using it, the short version.
Plugin goes in your plugin folder
Make resource folders in your Gimp Profile, for brushes a folder, brushes_storage (note the underscore)
Zip the category of brushes into a single file and put in the brushes_storage folder.
After starting Gimp, right click in the brushes dialogue to bring up the resources menu.
the long version
A video, over long and slow (10 minutes) but covers the subject http://youtu.be/v0g0qv4YMks (ignore the GimpForums leader, GimpForums is deceased)
RE: .abr brushes - Kimba - 07-09-2017
"However, a simple way is use sub-folders for different classes of brush. Then the folder name will show up as a tag". Thanks for the tip, Rich2005.