GIMP Brush

File Format
Name	GIMP Brush
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics GIMP Brush
Extension(s)	.gbr, .gpb

GIMP Brush, or GIMP Basic Brush, is one of the formats used by the GIMP image editor to store a brush or texture. It is effectively a raster image format.

See also

• GIMP Animated Brush
• XCF (for a list of other GIMP formats)

There is a third kind of GIMP brush file, GIMP Parametric Brush (.vbr), but it is probably of little interest to applications other than GIMP.

Identifiers

The usual filename extension, at least for current versions of GIMP, is .gbr. Some sources also list .gpb.

Identification

The ASCII characters "GIMP" appear at offset 20.

Specifications

• The GIMP Paintbrush File Format Version 2

Software

• GIMP
• Konvertor
• XnView (read-only)
• Tom's Editor