Add suport for importing Clip studio paint files

Import .clip files would be nice, I have thousands of .clip files, I would need to convet to phtoshop, then open with krita. I have done this with a few the process took me several hours, not fun.
The other thing, is the ‘water-colour edge’ effect, I think for a lot of folks this is a major wish.
I am not fast at learning ‘new’ so any intuitive ‘this works the same’ features are great.
I have been trying to make brushes recently, and one thing i find a bit lacking, is, in CSP I could create a layer over the top, paint on it without effecting lower paint ( which krita does ) but, my brushes in csp, blended/darkened more desirably to the lower image.
Now, I dont want to lose how Krita does this either, however, if there was a easy setting ( maybe there is and I dont know about it ) where I can create a layer that is separate, but works with colour blending of the back ground that woudl be nice.
I would love it, if we could directly import clip studio brushes here in krita. Some of the more recent tutorials have been really helpful.

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Please make a separate topic for your request. Please dont add in all the feature request in the same thread. the votes for this one will be in vain. please understand and follow forum rules.

Moving to a new thread.

The person was asking what addons might be helpful, that maybe they coud try to create for helping between csp and krita. I was simply mentioning a few items that people were asking for, myself included.
thats why I posted where I did.
This is fine too, though.

Yes with a separate topic here, we could gauge the interest based on the vote it gathers. Although I doubt reverse engineering the clip format is easy.

Yeah I dont know programming, I imagine it woudl be a mess. I do knot csp exports as photoshop, I’ve even looked to see if anyone has created an outside program like a batch file converter for photoshop but google has not been kind hehehe.

The clip file format is not documented, so implementing support for it is tricky. The files themselves are sqlite databases, so the basic structure is easy enough (and it’s shocking how simple and limited the text objects are for something that people are absolutely gushing about), but the the layer format isn’t clear and there is a big feature impedance between clip and krita: they have stuff we don’t and we have stuff they don’t.

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I know the vector items do not save into photoshop.
I had several pieces with text in them, when I went to turn them into photoshop, they refused to save, so I had to flatten those layers first before exporting them into a photoshop document.

I’ll necro this thread with a repo with MIT licensed python code which converts .clip into .psd

Given that, I think the reverse-engineer part had already been done. The problem now lies on deciding what information can be converted to Krita format.

“Had already been done” may be too hasty :laughing: Software is a moving target. Even if it works today, it may stop at a random time in the future, and then the problem will be with Krita developers.

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