I am trying to add a brush to the Brush folder in gimp (version 2.8)-> C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\brushes
I chenge the extension to desert.gbr from desert.jpg. When I open up GIMP and refresh the Brush menu it gives me an error!
Failed to load data: Fatal parse error in brush file 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\brushes\gimp-obsolete-files\Desert.gbr': Unknown version 1067590.
Can someone help with this issue? Thanks in Advance
Because a .jpg file is not GIMP BRush file (a.k.a. GBR).
The correct ways to transform an image into a brush is to open the image in GIMP itself,
and file->export it as a .gbr file into your brush directory.
An easier way is to open the image, copy it (ctrl + c) and select edit->paste as->new brush... from the menus - that will automatically select the correct file type and directories for you.
Unlike brushes, GIMP's patterns can be any image file - so you can copy an image directly into a GIMP's pattern resource directory, and you won't get an error like the one above.
