Hello,
I am new to Krita and have only dabbled with other art programs a little.
I installed Krita on my Fire Max 11 and installed it using the Google Play Store (did a side load of that onto my tablet). I installed this for special brushes I am looking to use from outside sources, one creator was kind enough to send me a sample file to see if I could get them to work and I have had no luck.
I was able to import the brushes into Krita as they show up in the resource management but when I click on it nothing shows up.
I found one topic in these forums where this has been discussed before and it says something about assigning them to existing presets or creating new presets, and I have no idea how to do that.
Hello @MadmaxNeo and welcome to the forum!
To assign the brush tips from ABR files you have to go into Krita’s brush editor, you’ll find it via the icon with three lines that have a dot in front and above these three lines is a wavy line.
In the brush editor, you should begin to study existing brushes that have similar characteristics like those you want to recreate.
But honestly, if you just begin with Krita, it may be better you familiarize yourself firstly with Krita itself before you begin trying to recreate PS brushes in Krita.
Furthermore, there are so many brushes for Krita that there really is no need to recreate brushes from other programs.
I’m just in a hurry, so I only give you a few links, but if you use our forum search for topics with ABR and my username you’ll find 50, 100 or more postings where I discuss this topic, just search for ABR @Michelist or vary the search term:
And via this post you find lots of brushes for Krita:
And this forum category gives you access to even more brushes:
Michelist
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Thanks for the reply.
Understand I am not really an artist, I am a tabletop RPG gamer and am looking into more ways to better utilize my tablet for the games I run. I’ve dabbled in this before and have made maps in other art programs and programs designed specifically for RPGs, but have only done sparingly so on my PC.
The brushes and brush sets I am looking to import are for creating maps in a ttrpg sense with some having a specific style (like Tolkien’s maps or a medieval style).
I have looked and have not been able to find brushes like the ones I want to import. Understand that there are in excess of 600 brushes that I am looking to use in Krita.
Sounds like this is more like a stamp thing, if so it will be very easy.
But as I wrote before, I’m in a hurry right now, have to do something important, and I don’t know if I’m back in 40 minutes or tomorrow, because I’m falling asleep very often shortly after I’m ready with what I’m just doing right now.
So see you later, maybe today or tomorrow.
Michelist
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If you want and if it would be easier I can post a link to the sample pack here.
Yes, of course. But if it is what I guess, then most if not all of these brushes are in fact stamps used for putting a mountain here and a tree there and so on. And this can be even “in series”, so one tree after the other with a stroke on the canvas.
Michelist
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Will do when I get home
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Here is the link to the files on Google Drive.
Note that I thought I found the brushes as stamps in the program but it was something else and not this sample pack.
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Currently, I only got about half the brushes ready, would it be okay for you to receive them on Friday?
Michelist
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What do you mean by “I only got about half the brushes ready”?
Is there something I need to do to import them into Krita?
Note that this is only a sample pack of which the artist sent me so that I could see if I could get them to work, if I did one of the brush packs I want is over 600 brushes. Others have different brushes but come with textures and other things.
The brushes work and can be used in Krita.
But, since they were created with a PS version after CS6, they must first be converted to an older format and can then be used. You only need the software abrMate for the conversion, nothing more. You can either download it from my cloud, the internet archive offers it too, and meanwhile you can furthermore get it from SOFTPEDIA who offer the old version, or from Software Informer who offer the most recent version.
What I’m doing at the moment is creating a bundle for Krita from these brushes, mainly just with default settings, but also one or two more “special” brushes, with which you can create whole mountain ranges in one brushstroke. This way you can see what to do with them and have something to try out.
Just unzip it to a folder you like and start the executable file from that folder, it is a portable version:
Michelist
Edit/Add: I forgot to mention that I too own such brushes. That are several thousand from historic cartographers, collected, scanned and made into ABR’s by a guy named KMAlexanderson (or the like). If you are interested, I can give you a link to them.
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@Michelist That was very kind of you to do this for @MadmaxNeo.
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@sooz: I thought it may be good to give him a something to begin with, to show that Krita should be usable for this task.
But it needs a little time to make these, because I currently have a few things more on my list of things to do. So I’m not ready yet.
Michelist
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Wow, you’re awesome!
Yes please, I’d also greatly appreciate the link. This would help jumpstart me into using my tablet for much more than just playing a game or two…lol.
I’ll look into that software also in case I find more brushes and such that I can use.
I assume one can install different fonts into Krita but can we import custom textures also?
I did a generic Google search for a KMAlexanderson but nothing came up and Goggle even offered an alternative name…lol.
It is K. M. Alexander, I wrote the name from memory and did not search for it on my hard-disk. But in case you found him, you have found round about 10,000+ new possible brushes for imitating historical maps.
Furthermore, interesting places, to discover new ideas and stuff, could be the Cartography-Guild and the WorldBuildersGuild (both on DA), and maybe Free Fantasy Map Generators / Assorted Links - Feed the Multiverse - Tiffany Munro's Fantasy Maps and World Building too?
I must confess that this is one of my hobbies. A part of my working life I was a surveyor and had a lot to do with all kinds of maps.
And sometimes we were lucky enough to work with historical maps. The oldest map that was still officially used in the surveying office was initially created around 1786/87 (and has been adapted several times since then), but these maps were already very rare 30 years ago (in the surveying offices of the ex-GDR), and are probably all out of circulation today (because this is not permitted in the FRG). You wouldn’t believe what you can discover on such material, it ranges from funny to serious to terrible.
Michelist
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This is all pretty awesome stuff. You are an excellent help and it is all greatly appreciated!
I’ve been in contact with the owner of this brush pack about this process and he asked me if I could share your contact info so they could contact you about possibly converting all their brushes. They might have a good deal for you.
Alternatively I could give you their Etsy store for contact instead of you giving me your contact info and relaying it to them.
Since I’m behind schedule due to an error when creating the 132 brushes so far, which I had to fix first, I’m only posting a preliminary bundle here for now. All stamps are available in two variants, one is the solid color often used in card making (Brush Editor option “Color Image”) and the variant often used for stamps to “paint it yourself ;-)” (Brush Editor option “Alpha Mask”), i.e. to specify contours.
I created the bundle with version 5.3.0-prealpha (git 7541cfa), where I realized that the bundle editor does not accept bundle icons, so no icon is displayed in “Manage Resource Libraries…”.
And when testing the now bundled brushes, I noticed that the brushes “Sail Away 01” and “Sail Away 01 A” (in most cases) have to be resized by at least 1 pixel (bigger or smaller doesn’t matter) to paint their series of images on the canvas, otherwise they only paint a fine line/stroke on the canvas.
But with the “Mountains o Mountains” brushes, you can quickly create entire mountain ranges.
Otherwise, I have created an individual icon for each brush so that you can recognize them by their icons, if possible.
Since this is mainly a demonstration bundle, the two faulty brushes should be tolerable, as should the fact that they use the same settings. What is there to vary about this type of stamp?
Michelist
Fonts are installed in your device and Krita will pull them from there.
Sorry, but last night I was too tired to answer your questions.
Before I even think about whether I should really convert 600 brushes to Krita, I would first like to know from you whether you are satisfied with the brushes as I have designed them, and if you expected something else, please describe what it is, how you would like to see these brushes? For example, should the brushes be able to vary the object size more depending on the pen pressure, should this even happen randomly, or for example by pen tilt, speed?
What do you think of the “Mountains o Mountains” and “Sail Away” brushes, apart from the fact that you have to vary the size of the one “Sail Away” brush to use it, are these brushes useful for this kind of card making, interesting? What would such a brush be like for large areas of water, seas, for example?
Michelist
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