brushes for Gimp

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 26.05.2013 02:57, schrieb Pete Wright:
> Okay, I give up.
> Maybe you can describe to me just what you did at the deviantart site.
> What did you click?

In the column to the right there is a green Button reading "Download File".

> Then what happened?

Firefox downloaded the ZIP-Archive to the Downloads Folder.

There I opened it using Dolphins ZIP-reader builtin and copied the
WaterBrushes  folder to $HOME/.gimp-2.8/brushes

You do not need to use a Torrent-client or any other specialized
downloader: just use the http-download built into every sane browser
since the early 90ies ;-)

> I am completely baffled.
> Pete
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Pete Wright <pnwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, HZN
>> checked to make sure I was logged in, and it still does nothing.
>> Acts like it's doing something, but no download or link to bit torrent
>> (Transmission is the bit torrent tool in the Ubuntu Studio package).
>> Please don't think about this anymore for a little while; I am going to
>> switch browsers and see if that is the problem.
>> Pete
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>wrote:
>>
>>> Am 26.05.2013 00:33, schrieb Pete Wright:
>>>> Almost through the process of getting weaned from PaintShopPro after
>>> many
>>>> happy years with it.
>>>> Now I can do pretty much everything in Gimp I could do with PSP.
>>>> I can make my own brushes and use them.
>>>> But so far I can't get any of the zillions of free brushes from sites
>>> like
>>>> Noupe.
>>>> How do I get a set of brushes using Transmission?
>>>
>>> I do not know Transmission, it is a convenience-tool to download brushes
>>> and the like?
>>>
>>> Anyway you request made me try to find out, if I can do that. So I
>>> registered with deviant art and downloaded this
>>>
>>> http://browse.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-Water-Brushes-62663732
>>>
>>> The zip-file contained a folder that I copied to .gimp2.8/brushes in my
>>> home-folder. Then I started GIMP and the brushes where available.
>>>
>>> May work for you as well?
>>>
>>> best regards
>>>
>>> HZN
>>>
>>>
>>>> Madly right and left clicking the various links (my usual last resort
>>> when
>>>> I don't know what I am doing) yields no joy.
>>>> I use Transmission for getting iso files, etc. so I know it works.
>>>> NoScript is often the fly in the ointment, but even with "temporarily
>>> all
>>>> this page" I am getting nothing.
>>>> What obvious thing that everybody else knows by osmosis or instinct
>>> (yes, I
>>>> am feeling sorry for myself!) am I missing?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Pete
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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