The
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) will natively support loading Adobe Photoshop brushes in the .abr (version 2) format in it's next major release -- GIMP 2.4. So far it has supported it's own brush format known as .gbr. Support for Photoshop brushes is
available for beta-testing in the current development
release 2.3.17 but it's a reportedly very unstable. A new development release -- 2.3.18 -- that fixes stability-critical bugs will be out soon.
To use Photoshop brushes with the current stable release, you can manually
convert them to the .gbr format using a rather tedious process. (For GNU/Linux and Mac OS X users: you can use the
Mono .NET-compatible runtime to run the abrView application mentioned in the tutorial.)
Readily-converted brushes are available on (surprise surprise) deviantART from community-initiated projects like ~
Project-GimpBC and ~
PStoGIMPbrushes
Related articles:
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A [Short] Guide to The GIMP
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Essential Tools and Resources for Free Artists!
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I've been wondering how I could utilise all the fantastic brushes available without spending massive amounts of money for PSP which I can otherwise live without.
A few of my friends are looking to get photoshop and i could download it for them, but if the gimp is really as good, I can jut get them to download that.....
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I wouldn't try it, but a few of my friends never used
photoshop, and they really wouldn't put it to good use,
Other than poorly placing heads on other bodies....
So I think I'll just tell them to download gimp.
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