Paint Brush Importer: Blender Add-on

This is an add-on that converts brush assets of several popular painting software to Blender ones.

• Supported brush formats:
  • .abr
  • .gbr / .gih
  • .brushset
  • .sut
  • .bundle / .kpp
• Supported Blender modes:
  • Texture Paint
  • Sculpt
  • Vertex Paint
  • Grease Pencil

This add-on is now also available on Blender's official extensions platform and can be downloaded directly from within Blender 4.2 or later versions. It has the same functionality as the store version.

Source Code

https://github.com/chsh2/import_paint_brush

Requirement

Blender 3.3 ~ 5.2

Usage

The import operator is available in the menu [File]->[Import]. Multiple brush files can be selected at once.

• Please make sure to select the Blender mode where the brush will be used. The imported brush will be displayed in the selected mode only.
• Please ensure that you comply with the copyright and licensing terms of the original brush assets. This tool only provides format conversion and does not grant you any additional rights to use or redistribute the converted brushes.
• This add-on can only convert brush files that contain pixel texture images.
  • For Krita brushes, the Pixel Engine is the only supported brush type. Besides, brushes with SVG textures are also not supported.
  • For Procreate brushes, some exported brushes store only parameters but no texture images. These brushes cannot be imported, which can usually be identified by their small file size.

Blender stores brushes in the current .blend file. To reuse the converted brushes in other files, please save the file to your asset library.

Changelog

v0.5.0 - 09/20/2026

• Supports up to Blender 5.2
• Supports Krita formats
• Improves attribute conversion of some brush formats

v0.4.0 - 11/16/2025

• Supports Blender 5.0
• Supports working together with another add-on "Animated Texture Brush"

v0.3.0 - 08/14/2025

• Supports Blender 4.5
• Supports parsing the names and parameters of ABR brushes

v0.2.1 - 05/05/2025

• Bug fixing: temporary files did not work properly

v0.2.0 - 04/27/2025

• Add support of GIH files
• Improve image loading speed
• Add Blender add-on metadata