: Using Photoshop patterns in Gimp

[JoeHill]

I found some pretty cool patterns on DeviantArt that are made for use with
Photoshop. They come in a .pat format, which Gimp is supposed to be able to
load, but Gimp errors on trying to load them with 'Unknown pattern format
version 65536'.

Anyone out there have any experience with this, maybe even know how to get
these working in Gimp?

Thanks!

[Jamon Camisso]

Post by JoeHill
I found some pretty cool patterns on DeviantArt that are made for use with
Photoshop. They come in a .pat format, which Gimp is supposed to be able to
load, but Gimp errors on trying to load them with 'Unknown pattern format
version 65536'.
Anyone out there have any experience with this, maybe even know how to get
these working in Gimp?
Thanks!

URL?
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[JoeHill]

Post by JoeHill
I found some pretty cool patterns on DeviantArt that are made for use with
Photoshop. They come in a .pat format, which Gimp is supposed to be able to
load, but Gimp errors on trying to load them with 'Unknown pattern format
version 65536'.
Anyone out there have any experience with this, maybe even know how to get
these working in Gimp?
Thanks!

URL?

http://shattereddesigns07.deviantart.com/art/Shattereds-Patterns-60463454

If you're interested, there are some nice Gimp brushes on there too. My
daughter loves those :)

[Scott Elcomb]

Post by JoeHill

Post by JoeHill
I found some pretty cool patterns on DeviantArt that are made for use with
Photoshop. They come in a .pat format, which Gimp is supposed to be able to
load, but Gimp errors on trying to load them with 'Unknown pattern format
version 65536'.
Anyone out there have any experience with this, maybe even know how to get
these working in Gimp?
Thanks!

URL?

http://shattereddesigns07.deviantart.com/art/Shattereds-Patterns-60463454

You can't import Photoshop patterns:
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-patterns.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Using-Photoshop-pat-files-in-GIMP-16525-1.html#131667

You can however turn any PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, or TIFF image into a
Gimp pattern simply by saving it with the .pat extension in your
~/gimp-2.2/patterns folder.

You can "import" them by chopping out each of the patterns separately,
then saving each of them with the .pat extension as described above.

HTH,
- Scott.

[JoeHill]

Post by Scott Elcomb

Post by JoeHill

Post by JoeHill
I found some pretty cool patterns on DeviantArt that are made for use
with Photoshop. They come in a .pat format, which Gimp is supposed to
be able to load, but Gimp errors on trying to load them with 'Unknown
pattern format version 65536'.
Anyone out there have any experience with this, maybe even know how to
get these working in Gimp?
Thanks!

URL?

http://shattereddesigns07.deviantart.com/art/Shattereds-Patterns-60463454

http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-patterns.html
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Using-Photoshop-pat-files-in-
GIMP-16525-1.html#131667

That's a good site. Found that when I was googling around, though I did not
find that page.

Post by Scott Elcomb
You can however turn any PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, or TIFF image into a
Gimp pattern simply by saving it with the .pat extension in your
~/gimp-2.2/patterns folder.
You can "import" them by chopping out each of the patterns separately,
then saving each of them with the .pat extension as described above.

Ah, okay, good to know. I ended up finding an old copy of PS 7 and installing
it with Wine. Works pretty good, actually. I've been loading the patterns in
PS and then saving as a PSD, Gimp can open those okay. The method you describe
will save a lot of fiddling.

Strangely enough, there are some patterns on DeviantArt that come in the form
of a PSD that even PS 7 cannot open. Having been using Linux so exclusively for
5 years, it's kinda weird to run into all these incompatibilities. I'd
forgotten what that was like. Getting spoiled, I guess ;)

Thanks!
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