brushes for Gimp

[Pete Wright]

Thanks, Hartmut.
I had been clicking the wrong links.
There were other "download" buttons along the side, some of them for other
programs, like commercial pdf readers.
The correct button was "hidden" among those.
Cheers
Pete


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>wrote:

> 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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