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Hello @Alkaris and welcome to the forum!
As you already found out by yourself, Photoshop ABR’s can only be imported into Krita if they are in a certain format. But that is in most cases not a problem, because there is a tool out there that is able to convert the ABR’s made after CS6 into the PS7 format, what can be read by Krita. The only issue that can arise here are copy-protected ABR’s, and corrupted ABR’s, it is also said that so-called “artistic brushes” should be unconvertible.
But over all the years I’m using these tools and Krita, I had about 5 or 6 ABRs that couldn’t be converted, from several hundreds I own.
So 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 (very) probably also via WineBottler under macOS.
Both do almost the same thing, display ABR files and extract their contents to single PNG files 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” and other programs that can’t read newer ABR’s (as said above, except copy-protected and corrupt ABRs and ABRs containing so-called artistic brushes (whatever that is in Photoshop)).
I use them in conjunction, “abrViewer.NET” for converting to PNG and for checking if it has to be converted by “abrMate” into a format Krita can use, “abrViewer.NET” views a error dialog if it has to be converted that it can’t handle the file. And “abrMate” I use only for conversion.
It is not clear to me if you are aware of the fact that Krita can only show the brush tips of ABR’s, converted or not doesn’t matter because it stays an ABR.
But you can use these brush tips to recreate the brushes from that. Usually a task for users that have experience in brush-creation, but in your special case of creating stamp like brushes that is no bigger problem.
You just need a brush preset of a stamp brush from Krita and can assign the brush tips from your ABR’s to this brush preset in Krita’s brush editor, that can be opened via the toolbar or F5. This allows an easy recreation of stamp like brushes.
And if you want, you should take a look at the following topic, where a user has the exactly same issue with the exactly same resource - AND there you can find my recreation of the sample brush-set offered from mapeffects.co, so some work already done. In case you will use that set with a mouse, you won’t have the issues the OP of that topic had, but I did not have issues with my graphics tablet either:
Furthermore, you can find links to tons of resources like those you just bought, and the best thing is far more than 10k brush tips from about 30+ ABR’s for free!
Michelist