Krita is a fantastic software, that reaches very high in usability and convenience. It even provides advantages over Photoshop in some ways.
But one thing might keep people from using Krita - brushes, or rather lack of them. Photoshop has many good, high quality brush packs, while Krita has only few packs, and they don't reach the quality that best PS brush packs have.
So here's a request. Request for the Krita community, not developers - if you know some cool Photoshop, or other software brush pack, try to convert it to be able to be used in Krita. Of course with author's permission. If it's a paid pack, then convince the author to include Krita version in their pack. Try to reproduce brushes to act as close as original ones, and don't drain the quality/resolution.

I would like to see Kyle's brushes converted. He has huge brush packs that are very high quality. If his packs worked in Krita, that would be awesome.

I would convert some packs myself, but I don't own Photoshop and free time to do it. Maybe some of you can find some time?

Krita and PS brush engines are pretty different, you can't do some PS tricks in krita as well as krita tricks in ps.

I made brush pack for krita that emulate some good ps brushes I really like: viewtopic.php?f=274&t=137532
Problem is krita doesn't have double brush feature and advanced texture settings like ps, so recreating brushes takes time and possible only for some brushes.

About Kyle brushes, I just don't get it. I tried the pack and didn't see anything interesting, just about hundred slightly different ink brushes with a couple generic painting ones (but maybe I tried wrong pack). Imo there is much better free packs.

Krita is getting stacked brush feature soon™ so I wouldn't worry about that. Before all brushes are converted (it takes time), feature should be complete.

I find Kyle's brushes impressive. Brushes try to act like natural media and it comes out pretty nice. Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISi5w95rzB8. Also the stroke repetition becomes lower. It has nice textures too, I've tried to find similar ones for free, but wasn't very successful - I couldn't find watercolor filled paper sheet that is free to use for example.
I can agree that some packs are pretty average, like impasto one (this effect looks ugly and textures are average), and some can be replaced by free resources from internet.

Have bought these for CSP http://daub-brushes.com/ - if they get "ported" to Krita I'd buy them again! Though I am not sure if all of them would work with Krita's brush engine - I have not gone into either in any depth

sceyefeye wrote:Have bought these for CSP http://daub-brushes.com/ - if they get "ported" to Krita I'd buy them again! Though I am not sure if all of them would work with Krita's brush engine - I have not gone into either in any depth

Have had the same thoughts. I have the complete set for CSP, but probably only use a handful. Would happily purchase them again