Gimp Help for a noob?

[Sife]

I decided to give Gimp another try, but it's still way to complicated for me.

Problem one:
Uhm, I can't add brushes..
I download them, then put them into brushes folder on gimp, but they're not there :S

Problem two:
Whenever I try to get a render, there's that big black box filling in everything. How do I get rid of it. lol.

Thanks >>
I'm a total noob.

[Cruzr]

For the render thing, if you get them from planet renders, keep clicking the image till you see one with a white background, save that one, and resize to what you want.
Love your avatar btw :p

[Sife]

Oh..
Thanks for the quick help! :D

[Cruzr]

Oh..
Thanks for the quick help! :D

Np, glad to.
It took me a long time to figure that out by myself a while ago.
I was getting all like, GAH WTF! THIS SUCKS!
And brushes thing happens to me when I run it off my flash drive, but I never really found out why.
I think it was cuz it was searching my c drive for the brushes and it was saved on I drive removable disk, is your gimp program file in your C:\ drive?

[Sife]

Yea, it is..I think. I was snooping around, and I think I may have
figured it out. EDIT: Nope, didn't find it. I have no clue wth I'm doing :x.

Also, how do I upload what I made? I can't run it through imageshack.

EDIT:
Figured out the brush problem, didn't downlaod them..just right-clicked and saved LOL.

Need help from changing to the format Gimp makes into to something imageshack can handle.

[ArmyofOneDFBHD]

the brushes you have to open the dialog (the little window not the panel) and refresh it..then the new brushes should be there.

[Sife]

I figured out my brush problem, I just need to know how to upload them onto like, say,imageshack.