baseball problem

Im trying to do somthing really simple (i think) but for a new person like me it is really difficult. im trying to make a baseball (and a soccer ball) but im using gimp and a i cant figure out how to send the unrawped uv image to gimp so i can paint over it…

im really sorry and i know this is a really dumb question but id realy appreciate it if somone could help thanks:o

In the UV window, go to UVs>scripts>save UV layout. This will save you a square .tga of your UVs.