Can we use a photo we take as fill pattern?

[snowforest]

(06-17-2021, 08:27 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Check Edit ➤ Preferences ➤ Folders ➤ Patterns. Edit your picture and save it as a PNG or a .PAT (with .PAT you can add some meta-data) in that directory.

You can also copy the image (or part of it, scaled or not) to the clipboard, and then use the Clipboard pattern in your Bucket-fill ( this is always the first in the list). This relieves the need to save it to file.

Of course you may want to make it seamlessly tilable first, but this is another question.

There are two folders in where you described. One starts with users, and other starts with program files. The first one is empty when I look at it. Do I save my image there? Or the second folder? I dont want to mess it up

And the second option you described , I cannot make it work. I copied the image entirely from files list under its own folder, or I opened the image and hit copy, and in both cases when I come to gimp and even refresh patterns, I do not see that image as a pattern