How to Convert Photoshop Brushes to Paint Shop Pro Brushes, Fast and Easy Way

Guys, I know many of you use Paint Shop Pro.

To be honest, back in the ’90 or ’91 at the times when I was just starting to discover the magic of graphics on PC, my first bitmap editing program was Corel… Photo Paint I think was the name.
Only later on I moved over to Photoshop, but I missed some of it’s features for a long time after.

So, for those of you who would like to use beautiful and the coolest Photoshop brushes ever in Paint Shop Pro, here is the tutorial on how to convert Photoshop Brushes to Paint Shop Pro Brushes

Summary:

The whole idea is to get the brush exported into the .png file with transparent background.

For this tutorial you will need:
1. Photoshop Brushes Set (.abr format) that you’d like to convert
2. Freeware software called – AbrViewer. AbrViewer is a beautiful piece of software that converts all the brushes from .abr file into .png files with transparent background. If you found his software useful, please help Mr. Luigi Bellanca (the creator of the software) with a donation.

OK. Here is how it works:
Part One; Exporting the brushes from .abr to .png

1. 1. Start abrViewer
2. 2. Click on load brushes and select the folder that contains .abr files (Photoshop Brushes)
3. 3. Double-Click on the brush set that you would like to convert
4. 4. Go to Export -> Thumbnails and select the location for new .png files

Voila! Part One Completed we now have all our bruhses exported as .png files in their original size (Meaning BIG, high-quality ones if you downloaded my brushes.)

Part Two; Opening .png files in Paint Shop Pro and saving them as brushes

1. 1. Start Paint Shop Pro
2. 2. Go to File -> Open and select the location of our .png files that we just generated with abrViewer
3. 3. Since Paint Shop Pro can not handle brushes bigger than 999px you’ll have to go to Image->Resize and make sure that longer side is 999px (also keep the aspect ratio locked)
4. 4. Go to File->Export->Custom Brush
5. 5. Give it some name, leave the Variance and Step as defalut, enter the Author, Copyright and Description.
6. 6. In “Edit Paths” make sure you export the brush into your default Paint Shop Pro brush folder.

And Voila! Here they are! Your brand new Photoshop Brushes are now in Paint Shop Pro.

I hope you liked the tutorial and found it useful. I though maybe a little screen shot support wouldn’t hurt, but then again, this shouldn’t be too complicated as it is … Let me know.

I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Darijan