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Convert GIMP brushes to Photoshop

.gbr → .abr in your browser. Textures, grain and pressure curves carry over — and the result screen lists exactly what was preserved and what was adjusted.

How it works

1. Upload your GIMP brush. Drop the .gbr / .gih / .vbr file into the converter. Multi-brush files are supported.
2. Pick Photoshop as the target. You can select several targets at once and get one download per format.
3. Download and install. In Photoshop, open Window › Brushes, then use the panel menu › Import Brushes… and pick the .abr. On iPad, import from the Brushes panel.

What carries over

From GIMP: Tip imagery with its size and spacing from .gbr and .gih (the first frame of an animated brush), and the full parametric recipe of a .vbr — radius, hardness, aspect ratio and angle.

Writing to Photoshop: Dynamics are written as native Photoshop preset controls (size/opacity/flow jitter with pressure control and minimum sliders), and grain becomes a Photoshop texture with the closest blend mode — verified against real commercial .abr files, including hard-mix texture capture.

Common questions

Every direction Brushfactory converts

Pick any other pair. The converter works the same way in all 20 directions.

See how conversion fidelity is measured for what each format contributes and where the honest limits are, or what is actually inside .gbr and .abr files.