Am 26.05.2013 02:57, schrieb Pete Wright: > Okay, I give up. > Maybe you can describe to me just what you did at the deviantart site. > What did you click?
In the column to the right there is a green Button reading "Download File". > Then what happened? Firefox downloaded the ZIP-Archive to the Downloads Folder. There I opened it using Dolphins ZIP-reader builtin and copied the WaterBrushes folder to $HOME/.gimp-2.8/brushes You do not need to use a Torrent-client or any other specialized downloader: just use the http-download built into every sane browser since the early 90ies ;-) > I am completely baffled. > Pete > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Pete Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, HZN >> checked to make sure I was logged in, and it still does nothing. >> Acts like it's doing something, but no download or link to bit torrent >> (Transmission is the bit torrent tool in the Ubuntu Studio package). >> Please don't think about this anymore for a little while; I am going to >> switch browsers and see if that is the problem. >> Pete >> >> >> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Hartmut Noack <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Am 26.05.2013 00:33, schrieb Pete Wright: >>>> Almost through the process of getting weaned from PaintShopPro after >>> many >>>> happy years with it. >>>> Now I can do pretty much everything in Gimp I could do with PSP. >>>> I can make my own brushes and use them. >>>> But so far I can't get any of the zillions of free brushes from sites >>> like >>>> Noupe. >>>> How do I get a set of brushes using Transmission? >>> >>> I do not know Transmission, it is a convenience-tool to download brushes >>> and the like? >>> >>> Anyway you request made me try to find out, if I can do that. So I >>> registered with deviant art and downloaded this >>> >>> http://browse.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-Water-Brushes-62663732 >>> >>> The zip-file contained a folder that I copied to .gimp2.8/brushes in my >>> home-folder. Then I started GIMP and the brushes where available. >>> >>> May work for you as well? >>> >>> best regards >>> >>> HZN >>> >>> >>>> Madly right and left clicking the various links (my usual last resort >>> when >>>> I don't know what I am doing) yields no joy. >>>> I use Transmission for getting iso files, etc. so I know it works. >>>> NoScript is often the fly in the ointment, but even with "temporarily >>> all >>>> this page" I am getting nothing. >>>> What obvious thing that everybody else knows by osmosis or instinct >>> (yes, I >>>> am feeling sorry for myself!) am I missing? >>>> Thanks >>>> Pete >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >>> >> >> > > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
