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From: Calvin Spealman
Sent: Sep 20, 2004 10:39 PM
To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: [Gimp-user] Photoshop Brushes

My wife understands why I prefer to use open software, but doesn't really grok it. Still, she uses the GIMP and doesn't complain too much about things she misses in Photoshop, except for not being able to use all those pretty brushes people post up on Deviant Art.

So, I've embarked on the journey you would think someone would have at least made some progress on by now. I'm not complaining that GIMP can't use PS brushes, just a little surprised there wasn't enough need for this that more work hasn't been done on it so far.

I'm attempting to write a library to read Photoshop brushes, which I intend to use in both a Photoshop-to-GIMP Brush converter and in a plug-in/patch to allow GIMP to use them natively.

I need some help. If any of you have or know of any documentation, perferably on the more recent versions of the format, it would be very much appriciated. I've found some PDFs released by Adobe several years ago, but the format seems to have changed a bit since then. I'm doing my best to figure things out as it is, but progress is slow.

Also, anyone who has Photoshop, if you could e-mail me some simple brushes and tell me the number of brushes in them and their sizes, that could help me, as I would have some kind of reference points to go to in figuring out these headers. Currently, I'm working with brush files I know nothing about, except that they are brushes of "pretty hair". Not very helpful.

All in all, I think its a worthwhile spendage of time, and so anyone willing to lend even a finger, or hell, even an entire hand, would be very welcome and thanked to do so.

Hi,

Quoting Calvin Spealman :

So, I've embarked on the journey you would think someone would have at least made some progress on by now. I'm not complaining that GIMP can't use PS brushes, just a little surprised there wasn't enough need for this that more work hasn't been done on it so far.

You'd think that, but after all most of the people who put time into file formats and the like are techies, rather than artists... I don't even use photoshop... although I have twice.

I'm attempting to write a library to read Photoshop brushes, which I intend to use in both a Photoshop-to-GIMP Brush converter and in a plug-in/patch to allow GIMP to use them natively.

That would be excellent!

All in all, I think its a worthwhile spendage of time, and so anyone willing to lend even a finger, or hell, even an entire hand, would be very welcome and thanked to do so.

Good luck :) Sorry I can't be of more help myself.

Cheers, Dave.

--
Dave Neary
Lyon, France

Calvin Spealman wrote:

If any of you have or know of any documentation, perferably on the more recent versions of the format, it would be very much appriciated.

You can still find the PhotoShop 6.0 SDK -- the last one that was publically distributed -- at

http://www.fine-view.com/jp/lab/doc/ps6ffspecsv2.pdf

I would be surprised if the brush file specs have changed all that much since then.

Best,
-- Bill

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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:39:25AM +0000, Calvin Spealman wrote:

So, I've embarked on the journey you would think someone would have at least made some progress on by now. I'm not complaining that GIMP can't use PS brushes, just a little surprised there wasn't enough need for this that more work hasn't been done on it so far.

There is a converter written by Marco Lamberto that can convert some, but not all Photoshop and Paintshop Pro brushes. See the following posts from the archive for more info.

http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2002-February/006478.html http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/2002-December/005263.html