I am only interested in reducing the amount of files to hand over to Imagine Board by this first search with the TC.
The check by Imagine Board’s similarity comparison or comparable algorithms is more complex, is reduced so, more is not behind it.
Michelist
Yes the dabs are the same but the settings are the magic part.
It takes some time to tweak a brush to match a photoshop looking brush. And to be honest even make it more cooler with other Krita brush settings.
But the appeal is that someone, somewhere made a good Photoshop brush or brush set and people want to use it. Krita might have 4000 brushes but most of them are pretty general. There are some cool PS brushes that I personally can’t find a replacement among Krita or Krita user shared base brushes. Thus my only option to use those are to spend time, fiddle with settings and transfer them.
Again if I was younger or didn’t had much to do, I wouldn’t mind. The thing is that every time I try to fiddle with settings there is only one thing in my mind “I would pay for someone to transfer these for me”. Simply because I don’t have that much free time to play with numbers. So far I’ve transferred 2 brushes from a PS pack that I like. I’m pretty happy with the result and as I said, I made them a bit better in Krita. But it took me like half a day for 2 brushes.
it is what it is though,
I still think its unfair to expect krita an opensource program to be able to fully get a brush from closed source program with accuracy and be able to translate that to a working brush. the license are incompatible, it probably would require reverse engineering - then that would probably not work on the later version because the head company might have change how their propriety format work or that there are settings that are not 1 to 1.
thats like trying to deduce a language from old ruins but that language had change over time and no one is teaching you how it works now and they cant understand you.
Though I do understand the frustration. I watch some artist [mostly csp users - as its popular in the type of style i enjoy watching timelapse/ but some ps users] use brushes and offer brush sets but i cant use them. It really is time consuming just trying to match the feel. I remember spending like days matching brush texture, flow and feel and its not even 1 to 1, just works close enough for me.
Yes, it depends on the settings. That is absolutely correct.
I think with brushes it’s the same problem for any software, the really good ones, or the ones you are well satisfied with that satisfy your needs, and you get decent results with, that’s what you have to look for and there aren’t that many of them.
Something I’ve noticed with the hundreds of ABR’s I own or have seen from other users is simply that most are based on identical brush tips. At best, they are stored differently sorted in the ABR’s. Exactly this circumstance makes it clear that the really important thing is the settings and the luck to find these brushes. It’s like everywhere in life, there are many cooks, but only a few master chefs.
Michelist
Add: @kaichi1342, It doesn’t matter where a brush comes from or whether you have to pay for it or for the software in which it works, it only depends on the brush maker and his skills.
Hi, I was wondering if I could jump into this conversation to ask if you have used any .abr to .png converters? I understand this may be a way to also bring brushes into Krita. I’m also on a Mac (an older one with OS Mojave).
I have a brush pack from Photoshop from an instructor that is a .abr but when I try to bring it into Krita, no brush tips appear. I did manage to bring in a different set of .abr brushes and they all were there. I’m pretty new to all of this but trying to fumble my way through it. I did see something called " ABRview" that may do it but I’m hesitant to download another program to my computer.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Cheers and thanks!
If you’re not joking, just scroll up to the top of this thread and start reading. That’s exactly what the OP asked.
Also good info in this post:
Hello @Aderyn, and welcome to the forum!
Additionally, to that what @sooz said:
AbrMate and abrView are Windows programs, you would need virtualization software like VirtualBox to use them on your Apple.
Your ABR file appears to be for a version of Photoshop that Krita can’t handle.
If it is a freely available and gratis ABR file, post the link to it here, and I will convert it for you. If it is a paid file, then you would have to provide it to me via Dropbox or similar file-hosting-service and send me the download link to it via PM, and you will get it back converted.
To send a PM you have to click on my name at the beginning of my posting.
Michelist
Hi Sooz, Thanks for responding and I’m actually not joking… I did start reading from the top but what I was asking was about the converters because I’m hesitant to download programs without asking if others have had problems with them (surprise malicious problems). And, I’m also on a Mac so wasn’t sure what to do there. I also looked at trying to find an online converter but the ones I found just jammed up and didn’t do anything.
Thank you for sharing the quote about ABR binary format. I sort of understand what was written. I think it’s saying basically that all we can get into Krita is the brush tip and we have to make any adjustments we want manually…? I’ve come across that as a drawback to using .abr files.
Where I am now, I’ve crashed Krita after I tried to download the brush file again but from Chrome. I wondered if Firefox (which isn’t working properly for many things now) hadn’t actually brought the brushes down. It seemed I got more when I did the new download but replacing the file is I guess what messed up Krita. …and that’s how I went to bed last night… 
…today’s a new day and hopefully I can fix this.
Hi @Michelist, Thanks for responding. I hadn’t heard of VirtualBox and will look into it. I got the file from an instructor so I’ll go back and ask if I can share them with you and thus take you up on your kind offer of converting them.
thanks!
Aderyn
Virtual box requires you to install a complete os. While that will work, you may want to try wine instead ( i believe there is a version for Mac, though i am unsure), as it works differently it will enable you to install and run programs from windows on your machine, sometimes it doesn’t work but it’s worth trying.
Hi @LunarKreatures, wine sounds good! Especially after how my research and efforts went last night I was thinking it might be more than I was up to once I looked up what it was. Thanks for confirming for me. (and the suggestion of an alternative 
Cheers!
Wine, that’s right, that’s also a way to use abrMate, and at least in my Linux VM Wine works without problems. I’m getting old, sometimes I overlook the simplest things.
If you can’t find it as a download anymore, because the former vendor’s site* doesn’t offer it for download anymore, you can also download it here. I would check it with a virus scanner* to be on the safe side, although it comes directly from my hard drive, but even I am not safe from attacks and therefore cannot guarantee anything.
Michelist
*The site was not maintained for a long time, was a zombie site, after that it was inaccessible for some time and now seems to have been taken over by a new owner under the same name.
** There you will find the setup file, two archives with the portable version, in ZIP and alternatively in 7ZIP format, a folder with the portable version and a web page copy from the day of the download, in HTML, PDF and PNG format (which is very different from today).
*** VirusTotal is an online service scanning with a multitude of scanners, where you can upload things you want to have scanned. It is a good indicator, in cases when your own scanner has found something suspicious, for example, you can see if it is a threat or a false positive, or you want to check things like abrMate. If there are only one to three hits, it is probably a false positive, if there are more than five hits I would not use a file, at least if I don’t know what these hits are (A “possibly unwanted program” is no Virus, Trojan etc. and not harmful, but can be a crack or keygen or something else and thus pieces of software most modern scanners report as a hit. Modern virus scanners are often “overcautious”, and sometimes want to protect users from programs desired by the user, this often includes analysis programs, port scanners or password crackers, with which you may just want to find out a forgotten password, or check your PC for vulnerabilities. You see, you also have to understand the results.).
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