Brushes and Gradients

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Hi, this is my first post on this forum!

I’ve been watching the video how to make gradient brushes on the official Krita channel.

And although I really enjoyed making the brushes, I have a few doubts.

1_ Is there a way to be able to save the gradient as part of the brush?

If not…

2_ In the future, will it be possible to implement the action of saving brushes with their particular gradient?

I hope I’m not being too much trouble, I’m excited about the idea that we can make the gradients part of the brush we create, thanks for reading :blush:

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I wouldn’t know how to answer your questions. I just wanted to comment that gradients don’t take up much space. I have just over 70 gradients in my home Krita folder and they only total 80 KB.

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One way to make sure you have gradient when distributing (or saving for later) your brush is to create a bundle that includes brush and gradient.

Brushes are not that self contained (as far as i understand)

For instance, therr are custom brush tips which are just images. When tranfer the brush, you need to transfer that too.

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Oh I see, so what I have to do is create a bundle where both the brush and the gradient are in the same file or something?

I apologize for the lack of knowledge on this, I’ve just recently been starting to use Krita and I still need to learn more :sweat_smile: :sweat:

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Yes. If you go to menu: Settings - Manage Resource Libraries,
there is a Create Bundle button. There you can put all the things needs to be saved.

Put all the things in the right section on the window. Set name and all other important things. Set “Save to” Directory and export the file. Next time you can import the bundle that will have all the related things in there.

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You don’t have to use bundles. You can share resources as individual items that are individually imported.
Bundles are just very convenient for sharing and organising resources.

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I will take your advice into account, thank you very much :wink:

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Oh I see, I hope I’m not disturbing, could you explain how I could do that?

I’m excited to learn more :smiley:

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In the case of gradients, they can be directly copied to the “gradients” folder in your home folder. The same thing for patterns, you copy them to their own folder. If you did everything right, the features will be available when you open Krita.

Gradients and patterns made in Gimp can also be copied to the Krita resources folder…

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Manually copying/placing resources into the appropriate subfolders of the main krita resources folder does require a start/restart of the application to have them incorporated into the database and so be available for use.
A more modern/elegant way of adding individual resources is to do
Settings → Manage Resources then press the Import Resources button and select which files you want to import. They will be immediately available for use.
That will take care of placing things in the appropriate folders for you but it’s not as ‘interesting’ and you don’t learn as much as with the manual method :slight_smile:

If you create resources with krita, such as a new brush preset, gradient, palette, etc and you want to give that individual resource to someone, you have to manually go into the appropriate subfolder of the krita resources folder and copy it out and send it to them.
Then they can import it (as described above) and use it.

If you choose to do so, you can put that individual resource item into a bundle file and send the bundle file to them but I think that’s overkill and it would clutter up the list of bundles in Settings → Manage Resource Libraries. (Should it be called Manage Resource Bundles?)

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Thank you very much for your answer, I will take these tips into account :smile: :grin:

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