DIM Fails on Ron's Rain but not other Ron's Brushes
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...and I'm certain that it's because I'm allergic to all Adobe "rentware". :sick:
So I use Corel PaintShop Pro software instead, which I'll call "PSP" below (not to be confused with Photoshop or "PS").
So I knew this was going to be a bit messy, but I decided to try some Ron's brushes since the prices were so good in the current PA sale. I expected some complaints from DIM (since I don't have Photoshop and hence no PS paths), but really the only one that failed installation was "Ron's Rain". The others appeared to install okay (who knows if I'll be able to find them in PSP, haha! But that's a different problem for a different day), but upon installing Ron's Rain, DIM gives this message:
Install Manager cannot find a required path. The package for "Ron's Rain" requires that the installed path for "Photoshop CS6, CS5, CS4, CS3, CS2, CS, 7" be defined. Make sure that a path for this application is present on the "Applications" page of the "Settings" dialog, then try again.
And of course now I have that one product with "Install Failed!" status on my DIM "Ready to Install" tab. I'd like to clear this up if possible. BTW, some of the ones that DIM did not complain about included Ron's Blood, Ron's Digital Energy parts 1&2, Steam & Smoke, and others.
I realize that I'll need to do some manual operations to make some or all of my Ron's purchases work in Corel PSP. So here's where I'm ignorant. How to begin; has anybody documented an "outside of DIM" install method for brushes in products other than Adobe Photoshop?
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Add the path for the software you use (or a dummy path if you prefer) in DIM's Settings > Applications and say it's Photoshop.
I found same thing with two of the brush sets, not the rest, I assumed because I have Photoshop elements not the pro one it wants, I copied all my brushes to GIMP anyway because I use that and they all work fine there.and those I unzipped and copied.
I may need to do this if I buy more brushes in future too!
I have the same thing. Actually I had a ton of his brushes installed in my Adobe Elements, and since getting the CC cloud version I thought I would DIM uninstall the ones in Elements. No problem there. I have the new path in and 36 install and 12 do not with an install failure of cannot find path.
IGNORE what I wrote here---
What I did notice was that the ones that installed had a similar attribute and the ones that didn't also had a similar attribute. The three little icons that delineate the check-box for what kind they are. The ones that installed had a check under the 3 pieces of paper icon (I couldn't find anything in the help files to tell me exactly what they are, but I think thats general content). The ones that failed installing all have the little plug column checked (I assume thats to say this is a 'plugin') so it is apparently looking for something. Nothing had a check under the disc image (Which I assume is for software).
I think they have something set wrong in the DIM that affects the Cloud version as they install fine if I change it back to my Elements directory.
I edited the post as now I did some more digging and I uninstall and reinstalled a few of ROn's brushes but now when I uninstall it comes up as a plugin for all of them.
Brushes I am having the issue with:
Ron's-->
Angel Dust
Cracks
Engraver Marks and Screens
Fog
Magical Snow
Metal Scratches
Particles
Scratches
Smoke
Tanks Patterns & Brushes
Water
Waves
Wings of Water
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doarte's CELESTIAL DIMENSIONS
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Orestes Graphics-->
Pictoglyph Brushes
I opened a ticket and gave a list and pointed to this thread.
Being cheap, I use GIMP. All of the brushes simply fail to install because I don't have Photoshop.
Where am I given the opportunity to declare an alternate directory/path for GIMP? The installation manager runs on autopilot.
Click the gear/cogwheel icon in the upper right of DIM. One of the tabs in there is where you can define your app of choice. Just mark the folder you want the brushes to go to as Photoshop.
Click the gear icon in the upper right corner (Settings), then go to the Applications tab, click the plus sign in the lower left, and select Photoshop. I put a dummy location there, since GIMP bogs down if you have too many brushes installed, and copy the brushes as needed into GIMP's brushes folder.
I had to download the manual files for couple brushes which seemed to install but did not appear in my presets tab.
you still need to load them into the application to use. Here is a sample of how.
https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/entries/21084817-How-to-import-Adobe-Brushes-abr-
Actually the problem in this case is the DIM is failing to install SOME brushes, I had brushes that installed in PS Elements but are failing on CC 2014 (See my post above). It is trying to find something that isn't there. I can manually just install them, but I would like for DIM to for updates etc. I opened a ticket, but they started with the set your application directory, but that has been straightened out and should be going to the right area now. It should just install to the directory selected into a preset/brushes sub-directory which would solve things all around. It does this to some non-rons brushes as well.
If you have a brush that is failing that is not in my list above, then add it here. Hopefully the Tech are watching this, if not I can add it too the ticket I opened.
If you gibe the path for CC but call it CS6 in the Settings > Applications tab in DIM, do they install correctly? It looks like the manifest in some of them will only install in versions up to CS6.
Changing the path did allow Ron's Brushes, Doartes Celestial Dimensions (spelling error on the brush directory it comes out as CELESTIA LDIMENSIONS, it also allowed Pictoglyph Brushes to install, those also had a miss spelling, it is set to Oretes/Pictoglyph Brushes instead of Orestes/Pictoglyph Brushes which is where their other ones installed.
...that's what I did and then set the actual path the Gimp brushes folder. All of them are there including the Rain ones.
Can't use them with my version PSP without converting them first (never could get that abr converter to work properly) as I only have X4 and direct .abr import started with X6. I would have picked up X7 when it was on sale had it not gone to being a a direct download only rather than a physical edition. I'd have to pay extra for the backup DVD. Would have cost me a total of nearly 50$ instead of 29$ as you can only upgrade from the previous two versions.