Trying to save a watermark brush in Gimp

[mohawk69]

I have been trying to save a watermark brush in Gimp. I have created the image, but all the tutorials are instructing me to save it in my Brushes folder, but not telling me how to find said folder, or the user is on a PC which does not help me...I really need a step by step on how to find this. Please.

[ajgreeny]

All the brushes seem to be either in the hidden folder .gimp in your home, or in a variety of /usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes and other folders in /usr/share.

Run the command

locate -i brushes | grep gimp

and you will see where they all are. However, I have no idea how you actually save an image as a brush, so will leave you to search that for yourself.

[mohawk69]

Thanks for the help...I will investigate more tonight. I have a good idea of how to save them, it's just finding the folder seems to be a problem.

[mohawk69]

Ok that helped me find the file to save the new brush in. But now it is not allowing me to do so:

Saving '/usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/bds.gbr' failed:

Could not open '/usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/bds.gbr' for writing: Permission denied


It's my computer, I or my partner installed Gimp, when I go to change the folder's Permissions it says I am not the owner or whatever and that I am not allowed to (!)

Any ideas?

[ajgreeny]

If you are sure that is where the file should go you will need to save it somewhere in your /home and then copy it with

sudo cp /path/to/bds.gbr /usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/

You can not save anything to system folders in the root filesystem as an ordinary user unless you use sudo to raise your permissions temporarily.