I have a question. It says that the Gimp supports PSP plugins. What does this mean? Does it mean that I *can* use pictures tubes that are originally for PSP in Gimp?

http://gimp.org/tutorials/Image_Pipes/

Example 5 - Converting a PSP image tube to a gimp Image Pipe

There are lots of "Image Tubes" created with and for Paint Shop Pro available on the internet. Gimp can load these files and save them as gimp image pipes.

Unfortunately, unless you really like pictures of teddy bears, puppy dogs, and unicorns, finding good PSP Tubes isnt so easy. There is a .tub loader plugin in gimp that you can use to load .tub files you find on the net. Then you can turn around and save these files as a .gih file.

We are going to start with a .tub file available from Hood's PSP Tubes, in this case the Fireball example. Hood's site is not available anymore but you may be able to find "HFireball.zip" or "H Fireball.tub" on several sites distributing PSP Tubes.

The file needs to be loaded as a regular image, then saved as a gih image. Sometimes you may need to make some best guesses as to the save parameters. An example of what the image window will look like after initially loading the .tub file is shown above.

Saving this file as a .gih file, and using the paramaters as shown in:

The original tutorial can be found here.

Hrm. I was looking over the tutorials for the Gimp before I posted here, and completely missed that one. Hrm. So, basically, I can download any PSP tube, and use it in Gimp? But I have to save it as a gih image. Sounds easy enough to do. Now, I'm going to go see if I can actually do it.

Okay, I have another question related to this, can the gimp use brushes too?

Not PSP brushes, AFAIK.

Darn. Hrm.