I just import ps brush abr file into krita, why do I got a different brush effect with ps? krita just can not restored ps brush effect?
Hello @Mr_Wang and welcome to the forum!
By importing ABR-Files you are only importing the brush tips these libraries hold. If you want them to act like in PS you have to recreate their complete settings.
If you want to know more about it, then please use the forum search to find numerous topics about this.
Michelist
Yes i cannot 100% copy it.
They have different brush engine and ways of handling brushes.
At most it lets you copy over brushtip, i think the rest you need to set it up.
Some user have done and transfer brushes as close as they can. If you post the brush you want to copy over maybe they can help you withe the settings.
As far as I know, all the information is recorded in the ps abr brush file. we depend on reverse-engineering to figure out what to load, why cannot we load all the informations?
Because the ABR-File-Format is closed source. You must pay Adobe to get their code if you want to implement it into your software. The issue here is, that Krita is open source, and because of that Adobe won’t sell the code, because Krita has to publish that according to its license.
So, as far as no one recreates the brush engine from Photoshop via reverse-engineering from scratch, you have to rely on the tedious task to manually recreate the settings.
One problem I see with rebuilding the brush engine is that the moment Adobe changes something in the ABR brush code, all the work starts again, and you have to reverse engineer that change and incorporate it into the brush engine.
If you need support in recreating the behavior of some brushes, you can ask here in the forum, there are most of the time user who can help with hints for settings or even complete brushes and bundles with lots of brushes, as @kaichi1342 mentioned before.
Maybe you take a look at the brush bundle made by @Odzuki? You can download it from here (and please use this link, because it links to the current version of this bundle): EDIT, new link:
But I recommend you to read the topic belonging to this bundle too, (nearly?) every brush is presented there with a good description, sample pictures and sometimes even a short video. The topic can be found here (but Odzuki’s links no longer work and so I took over hosting them):
Michelist
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