[Gimp-user] Background textures

[foggycreek <forums gimpusers com>]

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM, foggycreek <forums gimpusers com> 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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> > 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


Thank you very much.
I will try this :)


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