IForce73's - Flower Stamps NOW AS KRITA 5 BUNDLE by Michelist

Here I present to you the brush set “Flower Stamps for Krita”, originally made from iForce73 for Krita 4, but this is for Krita 5 and higher!¹

A colorful flower meadow made in 1 minute, with this no problem

Since I have been waiting for the fulfillment of iForce73’s announcement to release his bundles in revised versions for far more than a year now, I have decided to publish here now the updates of his bundles that I have created and where the license allows it.

And this little bundle is the beginning, at least two more will follow, ‘‘Environment Brushes and Forest Vegetation 3’’, and ‘‘Environments 2.0’’, are in preparation.

Now everybody, even those who are not computer-literate, should be able to use these bundles, because all you have to do is to install the bundles via Kritas resource manager. It doesn’t get any easier than that!

So, from now on, you no longer have to deal with his so-called “bundles”, which, more precisely, were in most cases a compilation of different resources that also contained a bundle, but only worked if you placed “the individual components” correctly in the different folders, so that they worked together.
To call these bundles from iForce73 a kit wouldn’t be so wrong. This was something that overwhelmed some users.

But now this is over!
Here you get a bundle that can be easily installed via resource manager in Krita, and can be activated or deactivated there just as well if needed. Something that was a challenging task before, if you think about the unbundled brush-tips.

For me, these bundles work in all previous release versions from Krita 5.0 up to the current version Krita 5.1.5, this applies to both Windows 10 and SUSE Linux Tumbleweed with the latest updates, and I hope that this will continue in the future, whether this also applies to Android and macOS is unknown to me, but I assume that it will also work there.

The bundles are each in a ZIP archive and also contain installation instructions, a copy of the Creative Commons license, a copy of the website from which I downloaded the bundle in PDF and HTML format, and, if available, the image(s) with which the bundle was presented.

This bundle comes in two versions, with the accompanying presentation video and without the video:

IForce73 - Flower Stamps for Krita 5+ - with Video.zip (~ 70MB) -

IForce73 - Flower Stamps for Krita 5+ - without Video.zip (~ 20MB) -

New alternative links to my k-drive, since Ufile.io seems to be defunct. At least, I’m unable to login or to download my content from them currently.

Here are the installation instructions I have revised, they are also included in the archives.

In Krita open ''Settings'' click on ''Manage Resource Libraries...'' 
in the opening dialog click on ''Import'' then, in the next 
opening dialog, browse to the bundle you want to install, 
select it and confirm the selection, so Krita can import the 
selected bundle. 

And now have fun with Krita and this little bundle and always happy painting!

Michelist

¹ So far tested up to Krita 5.1.5

Link to the Krita 4-Version from iForce73

Add/Edit: 13. May 2023
It seems that the difficulties with ufile.io are solved. Should anyone encounter new difficulties with the download of these files, may you please add a message about the issue to the topic and additionally write a short PM where you point me to your message. The reason is, sometimes I only check the status/count of new messages in the forum, but if I’m busy I only react on the green sign that shows me I got a PM.
Thank you in advance.

Michelist

Add/Edit 22 March 2025: Added an alternate download location, as my longtime file hosting service Ufile.io no longer seems to be a service that can be relied upon.

Add/Edit 2: Removed the ufile.io links completely, although they were working again.

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That was a lot of work! Well done and thank you for all that @Michelist :+1:

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Does it have another link to download? I can’t open it after I download it.

@Pui_Xi_3000 Did you successfully download the .zip file from the ufile link provided?
Did it fail to open with the Windows Extract option?
Or did you Extract it from the .zip file then have problems Importing it in krita?

You can get the ‘old style’ package from the deviantart link, if you’re logged in there.

@Michelist At the moment, ufile has a problem. It tells me it is downloading but it doesn’t download. This is the same for both of the links.
I hope it’s a temporary problem.

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@AhabGreybeard I managed to download it after waiting for a long time, but when I opened it, it said that it could not be opened.

This is very surprising, after all ufile.io advertises to offer me unlimited bandwidth, despite having a free account. This never happened before.
But even I have not been able to download it now unregistered, only when I am registered it works for me.
However, this download is a bummer, never before has one of the downloads I offer been in such demand, since this morning well over 100 downloads.
I therefore ask for a little patience, wait a little, and please try again a little later, but not in continuous fire if it does not work please wait again, I think it will normalize. I think patience is paramount.

Michelist

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Just to illustrate what happened the last 16 hours:

Add/Edit: 13. May 2023
And the peak after 24 hours:

Michelist

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If you have a free account, could it have reached a daily/weekly/monthly download limit for free unregistered users?

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Do you mean that the downloaded .zip file could not be Extracted?
Or, do you mean that any .bundle files inside it could not be imported by krita?

Either way, the apparent problems with ufile, at the moment, may have corrupted the download.
I suggest that you wait until the download seems to be working at a reasonable speed and try again, or download from deviantart and bring it into krita the old fashioned way.

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No, the download bandwidth is not subject to any limitations, and I also have files on ufile that reached almost 100 downloads in one day, there were never any limitations. This screenshot should confirm this:

Everyone who likes can read this up on ufile.io, under:
Ufile.io - Pricing

For whatever reason, but it seems that ufile is currently blocking access to these files.
The cause is unknown to me, as I have not yet received a message from ufile explaining why this is happening.
It cannot be ruled out that some ill-informed or ill-favored person FALSELY reported this download as copyright infringement, which it definitely is not.
Unlike the initial creator iForce73, I even obtained the entire license text and added it to the files. I linked the original, added the web page copies for documentation, as well as iForce73’s ReadMe.txt in which he mentions the license, all this to document the legality.

That these files are under “Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported” can be read by everyone who downloads the original from DA in the included ReadMe.txt. If needed, I also have the original ZIP file of DA as evidence, should this file be withdrawn by iForce73 at some point in the future, such as the “Experimental Oils for Krita”.
I downloaded this file with this license, and not even iForce73 could withdraw it from me again.

Michelist

Addendum: I will be absent for up to 2 hours.

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I just tried to download from my tablet and couldn’t do it. The progress bar only gets a little over half way then stops for good. I even went and made lunch while I wait but when I returned, there was no progress at all. :confused:

I even tried the try again link in the message of that window but after getting a Captcha, it did the same thing, only went almost half way then stopped. :person_shrugging:

I still have a problem. A small status bar message saying ‘Establishing secure connection’ then an error page saying:

This site can’t be reached
cdn-eu-hz-5.ufile.io took too long to respond.

That was on Chromium.

On Brave, the status bar message said ‘Waiting for fonts.gstatic.com
I think that was related to a Captcha.
After I identified ‘crosswalks’, a download started and I got a 0 bytes .zip file that never got bigger in my Downloads folder.
I’ll try again later or tomorrow.

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On Firefox it will download now but it creates a zip file with 0 bytes.

@Michelist I’m grateful for all the work you put into this. I’m sure if we just be patient as you suggested, the download server will catch up with our enthusiasm and we’ll be all set.

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I will write a message to ufile and simply ask the reason for which it is not possible to continue downloading these files. Finally, I have not received any indication of the cause of this irregularity through their notification system.
I hope for quick clarification, their response times I have in very good memory, about 24 hours at the last contact. For an absolutely free service, I find this good. It was a good communication, I hope this has not changed.

Also, I will offer these two files temporarily through another platform until the difficulties at ufile.io are resolved, and add the replacement download addresses for the time being to the first post.

Hopefully the problem with ufile will be detected and fixed soon, because admittedly I benefit from time to time when users not only download a file, but also open an account on ufile themselves in this context, then I’ll get more cloud-space.
But, this way, you also benefit from this, as I can therefore offer more resources. You can call it a win-win situation.

Michelist

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  1. May 2023:

The difficulties with ufile.io seem to be solved, at least since today I can download all files I host there again.

As already attached in the opening post I would like to ask you, if there are again irregularities with the download of these files, to leave a message here, in which you briefly describe your problems with the download, and furthermore I would like to ask you to send me also a PM, in which you refer to your message, because when I am very busy, I still often check the number of new posts, but continue with my activity. But if I see the green icon of a PM, then I respond as soon as I can.

Thank you in advance, and happy download!

Michelist

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This is awesome, thank you!! Really looking forward to the bundles, a lot of my iForce brushes broke back when krita 4 came out, I would super appreciate being able to use them all again!

@nebunezzari:
I have to get over/through a health problem before I can continue here. I would like to offer a lead picture for each bundle, as is customary and required here. But I have to be able to use the stylus again first, at the moment I can only work with the mouse, and even that only to a limited extent.
But because of this problem, I am still behind with the lead image of Paolo Puggioni’s cloud brushes. :frowning:

Michelist

@Michelist I am so sorry to hear that! Health problems that affect your hands can be so frustrating :pensive: I hope that your circumstances improve soon <3

Do you need examples of a few strokes of the brushes? I could help out with that if you’d like! My only limitation is that my current tablet doesn’t have tilt recognition, but any brushes that don’t require that wouldn’t be a problem.