Brushfactory › Convert
Brush converter for Photoshop, Procreate, Clip Studio, Krita, GIMP and MediBang
Want to use your brushes in a different program? You cannot copy the file across, because each program stores brushes in a format only it reads. Brushfactory rewrites the brush as the target program's own settings, so the tip image, the grain, the spacing and the pressure curves carry over and the brush arrives native. All 25 directions are free to try.
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What each format gives and takes
Read: Brush tips, grain with its blend mode and depth, spacing, scatter, and the full pressure dynamics with their curves and minimum floors.
Written: Dynamics are written as native Photoshop controls. Grain becomes a Photoshop texture with the closest blend mode, verified against real commercial .abr files.
From Photoshop: to Procreate, to Clip Studio Paint, to Krita, to GIMP, to MediBang.
To Photoshop: from Procreate, from Clip Studio Paint, from Krita, from GIMP.
Read: Brush tips and grain, stroke path settings, grain behavior, and Apple Pencil pressure and tilt dynamics.
Written: The output is a modern Procreate brush archive. Brushes are rebuilt and verified against Procreate's native engine. Single brushes export as .brush, and multi-brush files export as .brushset.
From Procreate: to Photoshop, to Clip Studio Paint, to Krita, to GIMP, to MediBang.
To Procreate: from Photoshop, from Clip Studio Paint, from Krita, from GIMP.
Read: Brush engine settings, pressure and tilt response curves with their minimums, texture settings, and linked materials.
Written: Grain textures larger than 1024x1024 are resampled to fit, and color mixing behavior is approximated for some brush types.
From Clip Studio Paint: to Photoshop, to Procreate, to Krita, to GIMP, to MediBang.
To Clip Studio Paint: from Photoshop, from Procreate, from Krita, from GIMP.
Read: The full preset. This includes the brush tip, texture with scale and strength, spacing, and pressure curves per parameter.
Written: The brush tip embeds in the preset, and texture settings map onto Krita's 0 to 200 percent texture scale. Brushes that mix color map to Krita's Color Smudge engine behavior where possible.
From Krita: to Photoshop, to Procreate, to Clip Studio Paint, to GIMP, to MediBang.
To Krita: from Photoshop, from Procreate, from Clip Studio Paint, from GIMP.
Read: Brush tips with their size and spacing from .gbr and .gih files (the first frame of an animated brush), plus the full parametric recipe of a .vbr file: radius, hardness, aspect ratio and angle.
Written: Bitmap tips are written as native .gbr brushes at their intended size. Computed round and square tips become .vbr files so hardness, roundness, and angle stay adjustable. Pressure, tilt, and jitter dynamics travel as a matching Paint Dynamics preset written beside the brush. Grain has no equivalent in GIMP, and the result screen names anything that had to be adjusted.
From GIMP: to Photoshop, to Procreate, to Clip Studio Paint, to Krita, to MediBang.
To GIMP: from Photoshop, from Procreate, from Clip Studio Paint, from Krita.
Written: MediBang has no brush file format. The download is the brush tip sized for MediBang's brush editor plus a settings sheet naming the values to enter: Width, Brush Spacing, Min Width. Pressure size carries as Min Width. Other pen dynamics and grain do not transfer, and the result screen names anything that had to be adjusted.
To MediBang: from Photoshop, from Procreate, from Clip Studio Paint, from Krita, from GIMP.
Or read what the files themselves actually contain: .abr (Photoshop), .brush (Procreate), .sut (Clip Studio Paint), .kpp (Krita), .gbr (GIMP).