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Whats the difference between GIMP brushes and photoshop brushes?

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are they the exact same thing?

like if I downloaded GIMP, would I be able to use all of my .abr photoshop brushes?

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2 Comments to “Whats the difference between GIMP brushes and photoshop brushes?”

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  timothy b March 10, 2010 at 7:56 pm

  Yes Gimp brushes and photoshop brushes are different.Here is the difference Gimp brushes have the .GBR extension and photoshop brushes have the .ABR extension.And yes if you down load the gimp you can use photoshop brushes with it. Here are some tutorial`s that will show you how to use photosohp brushes with gimp.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8qQcySY2I

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLBsfc3DVaA&feature=related

  http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/tutorial-How-To-Convert-Photoshop-Brushes-4349-1.html

  And here is a tutorial that will show you how to make your own custom brushes for Gimp if you ever need to make a custom brush

  http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Custom_Brushes/

  I hope this can help you.
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  leverpostei March 10, 2010 at 8:06 pm

  Yes you would be able to do that, support for .abr was implemented into the GIMP a long time ago, there is no need to convert the brushes anymore, just put the .abr file in the GIMP brush folder.