Using Photoshop patterns in Gimp

[JoeHill]

Scott Elcomb left a post-it on the fridge:

> On 9/9/07, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Jamon Camisso left a post-it on the fridge:  
> > > JoeHill wrote:  
> > > > 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

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