I've noticed that most of the patterns I have downloaded for Gimp lately are just .png's. That makes it nice but does Gimp still use .pat files for patterns as well or did they get rid of that? It seems like Adobe Photoshop still uses .pat files.
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You can still use the .pat files for Gimp patterns but REMEMBER that Gimp .pat files and Photoshop .pat files are a different format. .pat patterns seam to be more popular in the Adobe Photoshop world so for this reason, I include a .pat for Photoshop and a .png of each pattern for Gimp in my free pattern sets. Confusing I know, but I think .png's work very well for patterns in Gimp so I don't create a .pat in Gimp format. Two separate .pat files would be even more confusing I think!
Ah, ok thanks for the information. I was trying to use .pat files supplied in Gimp and they wouldn't open. I guess that's why! I'll go ahead and put the pattern .png images into my pattern preset directory and give it a try with those. Ultimately, I think png's as patterns works the best anyways because you can open them with anything right from Windows to take a look at as well; you don't need special software to open like .pat files...