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Moving from Clip Studio Paint to Krita

You can move your brushes and your artwork from Clip Studio Paint to Krita. Krita cannot open .sut or .clip files, so brushes need converting to .kpp presets and documents need exporting as PSD first. Clip Studio materials stay behind. Everything below is what transfers and what does not.

Brushes

This is the part that stops most people. Krita cannot read .sut. Clip Studio writes brushes in a format of its own and no version of Krita opens it, which is why the usual answer on forums is to rebuild the library by hand.

Rebuilding works, and it is slow. The other option is to rewrite the .sut as a .kpp brush preset, which is Krita's own format, and import that natively. 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.

What Clip Studio holds and what comes across: Brush engine settings, pressure and tilt response curves with their minimums, texture settings, and linked materials.

1. Find your .sut files. In Clip Studio, right-click a sub tool and export it, or export a whole sub tool group at once.
2. Convert them. Upload the .sut files and pick Krita as the target. A .sut holding several sub tools converts in one pass.
3. Install the .kpp. Settings › Manage Resources… › Import Resources. The Krita install guide covers the resource-folder route and the tag filter that hides a preset which imported correctly.

The result screen names anything that was adjusted, so you are never guessing which brushes need a second look. See how conversion fidelity is measured.

Artwork

Krita does not read .clip, so the route is Clip Studio's own PSD export. Save the document as a PSD from Clip Studio, then open that PSD in Krita. Layers, groups and most masks survive the trip.

The two programs do not model layer groups and masks identically, so a heavily structured file is worth checking after it opens. Flat and lightly layered files come across cleanly.

What does not move

• Clip Studio materials, tones and 3D models. These stay in Clip Studio. There is no import path for them. Krita has its own halftone and pattern tools, which work differently.
• Workspaces, shortcuts and tool settings. Both programs keep these in formats of their own, so a Krita workspace is set up from scratch.
• Vector layers and text layers. These rasterize on the way through PSD unless the receiving program understands them, and the two do not model them the same way.

Common questions

Free Krita brushes to start with

The brush library carries packs released by the Krita community. Each one names its artist and carries its licence, and they install the same way a converted preset does.

Every direction Brushfactory converts

Coming the other way, or from somewhere else entirely, works the same.