On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM, foggycreek wrote:

I have bought and downloaded some background textures. My problem is that I can not figure out where to put them once I unzip the file. I want to use them in Gimp 2.6, but where do I copy and paste them to. Once this is accomplished, how do I open them in Gimp? This is probably very basic, but I am new at this stuff and need help PLEASE. Thank you very much!  :)

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You have to open a terminal window, go to the the directory you expanded files to and enter this:

sudo mv *pat /usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns

It will ask for you super password, the one you used to install Linux. It will then move all files with the extension pat to the patterns directly.

You can also turn your own images into patterns. Just open them with gimp, and resave them as .pat files. It will ask for a name which will show up when you look for your patterns, making it easy to find them.

Hope this is clear enough. :-)

Pat Brown

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:31 PM, foggycreek wrote:

I have bought and downloaded some background textures. My problem is that I can not figure out where to put them once I unzip the file.

You could also mention what file format they are in and what system you use (Linux, Win, Mac).

If they are PNG or PAT, you can just drop them to your local folder for patterns. You can see where it is for yourself, use Edit/Preferences/Folders/Patterns menu path.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM, foggycreek wrote:

I have bought and downloaded some background textures. My problem is that I can not figure out where to put them once I unzip the file. I want to use them in Gimp 2.6, but where do I copy and paste them to. Once this is accomplished, how do I open them in Gimp? This is probably very basic, but I am new at this stuff and need help PLEASE. Thank you very much!  :)

-- foggycreek (via gimpusers.com)

You have to open a terminal window, go to the the directory you expanded files to and enter this:

sudo mv *pat /usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns

It will ask for you super password, the one you used to install Linux. It will then move all files with the extension pat to the patterns directly.

You can also turn your own images into patterns. Just open them with gimp, and resave them as .pat files. It will ask for a name which will show up when you look for your patterns, making it easy to find them.

Hope this is clear enough. :-)

Pat Brown

http://pabrown.com/ Pushing the envelope on romance

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:09 PM, foggycreek wrote:

sudo mv *pat /usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns

Thank you very much.
I will try this :)

On your Window VIsta? Good luck :)

Actually, I've just tried adding JPEG files to patterns folder, refreshed the list without restarting GIMP and it worked.

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No problem with WIN ,gimp may use jpg, png and several other format for pattern

Only problem may be the pattern image size i believe max accepted is around 500x500

But if you want use for BG you may bypass the limit simply opening your pattern as was a image using File/open as layer

In this case if you need to tile you will find some build in filter hem i am a little vague here because for tiling i always use the "Array" filters included in the gmic plugin (simple array or mirrored array ) and never the built in option

Alchemie Foto\grafiche

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Oggetto: Re: [Gimp-user] Background textures

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:09 PM, foggycreek wrote:

sudo mv *pat /usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns

Thank you very much.
I will try this :)

On your Window VIsta? Good luck :)

Actually, I've just tried adding JPEG files to patterns folder, refreshed the list without restarting GIMP and it worked.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Alchemie foto\grafiche wrote:

No problem with WIN

sudo mv *pat /usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns ? :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Only problem may be the pattern image size i believe max accepted is

around 500x500

The size limit is only for clipboard patterns. You can be as large as you want for file based patterns.

-Rob A>