Galaxies painting, question

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Hi, I need a special brush to make galaxies in krita. Could help me with some advices?

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I forgot to say,
Welcome to the forum @Costy

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:slight_smile: Hello @Costy, and welcome to the forum!

Do you think of making your own, or do you search for ready-made galaxy brushes?
If the latter, there is at least one set for Krita available*, even in a free “light” version.
If the first, do you think of stamp like brushes, or do you search for brushes usable for this task? The latter is easy, just use the brushes Krita ships with, choose appropriate settings and go. If the first, you first need pictures of galaxies you can use for it, if you ask Google this question, you’ll get enough material of free to use pictures to choose of.**

Now you have to decide should the brush(es) be colored or monochrome, and in which way you want to use them, and also how advanced or not the brushes should be in the end, so do you want a bunch of different stamps or do you want a brush that is able to paint a bunch of different galaxies just with a single stroke? All this is possible, if you want to put the effort in, it is up to you to decide which way to go which route to choose. If you can give me an idea what you want to achieve exactly, I can point you further.

Michelist

*Registration needed to download from DA, but it is worth to register with DA because of the mountains of free resources you can get there.

**Another way to get such material to build your brush(es) from / upon, is to download one of these image packs or brush tip-collections from DA (or any other source you know, similar to DA and the many other websites offering materials for artists, or pictures like NASA offers):
The first two are collections of pictures, and you can use them as brush tips in Krita, but you have to convert the pictures to PNG before you can import them. Then “just” select a stamp brush-preset in Krita, call the brush-editor via F5 and assign one of the before in Krita imported pictures as new brush tip to the stamp brush-preset you selected before, try to find settings that meet your expectations, so size and spacing mainly, and have fun.
JeffrettaLyn - Space Brush Image Pack (.bmp) - Part 1

JeffrettaLyn - Space Brush Image Pack (.bmp) - Part 2

If you do not want to convert them yourself, you can get these pictures via another way too. JeffrettaLyn was so kind and made brushes in Photoshops ABR-Format of them, and Krita can use these ABR-Files and the pictures they hold as brush tips too, so download instead:

JeffrettaLyn - Ultimate Space Brush Pack - Part 1

JeffrettaLyn - Ultimate Space Brush Pack - Part 2

Import these ABR-Files via ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Manage Resource Libraries…’’ >> ‘’+ Import’’ or ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Manage Resources…’’ >> ‘‘Import Resources’’ (ABR-Files can be imported via both ways, and Krita stores them with the bundles if your resource folder has a folder called bundles, if this folder does not exist they will be stored in the root of your resource folder if I’m not mistaken).

Maybe you want additionally or instead the brush tips in ABR-Format offered from Stephanie Shimerdla, aka redheadstock aka ObsidianDawn.com:

redheadstock - Space Photoshop and GIMP Brushes

Or her planets brush tips?

redheadstock - Planets Photoshop and GIMP Brushes

If you need more sources, I can see what I can do for you, but the web is full of them, you just need to stumble over them…
:wink:

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Thank you very much! I search for an advanced ready-made galaxy brush to help me to make easier a background, something very close to reality. But is very interesting the ideea you suggested me, to make my own galaxy brushes and I want to choose this way. Could you , please, give me some advices, how to create my own custom brushes?

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Thank you very much! I will try it.

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To learn how to create brushes yourself, it is very helpful to start by modifying existing brushes that are similar to what you want to achieve.
So here it would be advisable to download and install the archive Universe Environments - Lite Version from iForce73, and I recommend downloading the ABR files from JeffrettaLyn (I referred to both above), as you don’t need to convert them beforehand to use them, but you can also download her BMPs and convert them to PNG, but you may need to do some extra work for clipping objects. Then you have two sets of resources that are good to combine.

Let’s start with the installation of the set from iForce73, the files from the “Brush Presets” folder are the brush presets, i.e. what you select in Krita from the “Brush Presets” docker to paint with, these files must be copied to the “paintoppresets” subfolder in Krita’s resource folder. You can do this classically via file manager and copy the brush presets to the %APPDATA%\krita\paintoppresets folder, or via Krita’s resource management, the same applies to the subsequent brush tips from iForce and JeffrettaLyn.
In the folder “UNV_Brushes” you will find the brush tips that belong in the subfolder “brushes”, so they should be copied to %APPDATA%\krita\brushes, or you can use the resource management to import these files. Then there are the folders “Planet Ring” and “High Resolution Planets”, in the archive of iForce73, which I copied myself into the subfolders “patterns” and “brushes”, whether you do this too, or whether you follow the enclosed e-book, I leave it up to you, I will not explain their use to you either, you will work this out for yourself over time, should you seriously pursue the goal of creating your own space brushes.
So, now the brush tips from JeffrettaLyn in ABR format, which you can import in different ways, either you copy the ABR file(s) into the “brushes” folder, or you import them via the resource management in Krita, i.e. via ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Manage Resources…’’ >> ‘‘Import Resources’’.

I would also like to recommend the two programs “abrViewer.NET” and “abrMate” for handling ABR files. Although Windows programs, both run via Wine under Linux and probably also via WineBottler under macOS. Both do almost the same thing, display ABR files and extract their contents if required. However, “abrViewer.NET” is significantly faster, especially when extracting and displaying, and extracting is done automatically in the background, but “abrViewer.NET” cannot handle all ABR files AND THE ABRs THAT “abrViewer.NET” CANNOT READ, KRITA CANNOT READ THEM, and this is where “abrMate” comes into play, because “abrMate” can convert these ABR files into a format readable by Krita and “abrViewer.NET” (except copy-protected and corrupt ABRs and ABRs containing so-called artistic brushes (whatever that is in Photoshop)).

Now that you have imported all the files into Krita, you can start assigning suitable brush tips from JeffrettaLyn’s ABR files to individual brush presets from iForce73’s range of brushes and vary their settings to create a brush with new properties.
This means, for example, working with the “Spacing” at the beginning. Just take a brush and after pressing F5 to get into the brush editor, start playing with the settings, see what leads to what, assign other brush tips, be a kid. And as long as you don’t save it, you won’t break the brush you’re experimenting with, and if you like your changes, you can make them your first custom brush with the “Save New Brush Preset” button at the top right.

So, now, in addition to my post above, you know, at least I hope you know, how to import brush-presets and brush-tips into Krita and where you can play with them, the brush-editor, now it is up to you and your curiosity, your will to play, what will emerge from it. Maybe you noticed different file-types while importing the brush-tips and try to find out what the heck are GIH-brush-tips (and more GIH, and more, and more), and if you want to know more about Krita’s brush-engines, look here.

In case of questions, ask, therefor this forum exists, but the way to learn is playing and turning every screw available to see what happens next, which consequences it has, so turn them one after the other and see what happened or not.
And you really should see this video-series on how to make and manipulate brushes:

Michelist

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Thank you @Michelist for all these resources! Much appreciated.

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:slight_smile: Hello @Mickaelux, and welcome to the forum!

Thank you, you’re welcome!

Michelist

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