HI guys,
I have a problem with Krita, but I am not allowed to create topics, how can I solve my problem?
You should be able to create new threads by selecting the category, and then selecting the inside category, and doing so as long as you have categories to choose from. And then âcreate threadâ.
What is your problem about?
I imported my photoshop brushes into
settings> Manage resouces> import brushes
I notice that they appear when I click on edit bush settings, but they donât appear on my brush list
What youâve imported are brush âtipsâ, the detailed image that is used as a repeated image stamp when you make a painted stroke.
The Brush Presets are the things you use to paint with. These are âpainting machinesâ that are fitted with a brush tip and use various control methods to deliver paint to the brush tip while painting. (Iâm making up analogies as I go along here.)
There is a difference between âbrushesâ and âbrush presetsâ. You paint with a brush preset. A brush preset is fitted with a brush, at its tip.
You can take any existing brush preset and edit its settings to change its brush tip to one of the brush tips that youâve imported. (You can do other changes to adjust its behaviour as well.) After you do that youâd need to save it as a new brush preset or your changes would be lost after you restart krita.
Itâs all in the manual here: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/resource_management/paintoppresets.html
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Thanks, Iâm going to read the manual, but everything seems very laborious, is there any way to import the brushes instead of importing the âtipsâ?
my source file extension is a .abr
Unfortunately, brushes in general are not really importable between different kinds of programs. Photoshop saves their brushes in a secret format - we can get the base image out (which is the brush tip), but settings are not possible to understand. Moreover Photoshopâs and Kritaâs settings for the brush presets differ. Hence, since the brush tip is the only thing Krita can read from .abr file, Krita loads them as brush tips. Youâll have to recreate those brushes in Krita, using Kritaâs settings. A lot of Krita settings are not available in Photoshop, some of the Photoshop ones are not available in Krita, some you can adjust to make it look like in Photoshop using different settings than Photoshop uses.
Iâm sorry, but - we cannot buy the file format from Adobe from two reasons: (1) it would be insanely expensive, (2) Krita is open source, which means the code reading .abr would be open source (meaning nobody else would have to pay Adobe to know the format, they could read it from Krita code), and Adobe wouldnât agree to this. So we need to basically guess what those files contain.
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I really understood what you said, but working with these âtipsâ seems so difficult, there isnât even a âadd brushâ button or a âcreate brush from tipsâ button.
As soon as I find out how to create the brush, I will definitely create a blog explaining all of this and explaining how you can solve this problem, as this information doesnât seem so clear at the moment.
That would be good to have, yeah 
It would be even better if importing a lot of brush tips would have some kind of âdo you want to create basic Pixel engine brushes for all of the brush tips?â. (or, do you want to create them based on brush preset X). And the user would have to just adjust settings to their taste and rename nicely
There is some information on saving brushes here: Loading and Saving Brushes â Krita Manual 5.2.0 documentation - if you create a tutorial how to create a brush like that, it would be awesome to include it in the official Manual (it is written mostly by volunteers such as you).
Basically if you want to create a new brush, you just need to use this create brush button (choose âPixelâ, this is the default engine), then go to Brush Tip â Predefined and choose the brush tip that you just imported. Adjust settings and use Save New Brush Preset.
EDIT: wait, have you seen this page? Brushes â Krita Manual 5.2.0 documentation
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The manual really is good isnât it?
All you need to do is take a simple pixel engine brush preset such as Basic-2 Opacity and open it in the brush editor. Then do Brush Tip - Predefined, click on the brush tip icon of your choice, then Save New Brush Preset, give it a name such as âMy Experiment-1â (and a nice icon if you like) and that is it.
You then have a new brush preset that will be in the Brush Presets docker.
You can use this and open it in the brush editor to play with its various parameters and how they are controlled.
There are many YouTube tutorials about creating and modifying brush presets in krita.
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Thanks, I managed to create the brushes.
When I create the blog, Iâll post it here.
I thought of helping with development, but I donât know c ++ very well.
The brush creator has improved over the years. The preview in particular was a nice addition!
Iâve often thought itâs very complex for beginners though. I donât struggle so much with it now - after several years of use, but I used to. Iâve often thought it would be good to have some kind of simplified brush wizard. Not sure what form that would take, or how viable it is.
I imagine a series of questions that take you from brush type, then tip options, through tailoring the brush using only the most obvious choices, and maybe sliders instead of graphs.
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Regarding the abr import. It should be noted that abr only gives you png files of the brush tip, adobe is not so generous to let us easily import other settings of the brush, so basically you get a png file for the tip (dab or brush shape) and you have to recreate the brush yourself.
If there was Python API to create presets, it would be possible as a Python plugin⌠quite a nice one, actually.
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thanks , it was really helpful
actually importing the brush tips as new brush presets even if there is no settings at first is a real time saver! They could have the brush tip as icon as well⌠A lof of psd brushes are actually just âcheat brushesâ that uses just the tip, nothing fancy! It would serve a wide range of use cases! Now it might seem simple to do, but i guess there is a lot that have to do with the resource system if i can guess, so im not sure how possible would that beâŚ
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It should be possible just fine in both systems, but it would be easiest if it was not in Python but in c++. It would be cool if someone starts coding that Maybe just - brushes to import, some simple size + opacity curves, spacing, brush tip mode (lightness or alpha or color) (all of those options the same for all brushes, rest of the options would be default) and thatâs it.