Buli Brush Switch

A plugin for Krita.

What is Buli Brush Switch?

Buli Brush Switch is a Python plugin made for Krita (free professional and open-source painting program).

This plugin allows to define shortcuts to activate brushes, but also provides some additional features.

Screenshots

Settings brushes list

Setting a brush

Toolbar button + popup brushes (list mode)

Functionalities

Main functionality for this plugin is to let possibility for user to quickly switch to preset brush through shortcuts.

Plugin allows:

• To manage and organize an infinite number of brushes
• To access to brushes from popup list and/or through defined shortcuts
• To define properties (size, opacity, ...) and ccomments per brush
• To manage different setups

Shortcuts for brushes can be managed directly from plugin or from default Krita's user interface for shorcuts.

Read short documentation for more detailed informations

Download, Install & Execute

Download

• ZIP ARCHIVE - v1.1.0
• SOURCE

Installation

Plugin installation in Krita is not intuitive and needs some manipulation:

1. Open Krita and go to Tools -> Scripts -> Import Python Plugins... and select the bulibrushswitch.zip archive and let the software handle it.
2. Restart Krita
3. To enable Buli Brush Switch go to Settings -> Configure Krita... -> Python Plugin Manager and click the checkbox to the left of the field that says Buli Brush Switch.
4. Restart Krita

Execute

Once installed, you should have a new button in toolbar, near the Krita's Choose brush preset button:

Tested platforms

Plugin requires at least Krita 5.2.2 Has been tested:

• Linux AppImage
• Windows 10

Plugin's life

What's new?

[2023-12-10] Version 1.1.0 Show detailed release content

• Implement - Brush Settings - Brush rotation

[2023-12-09] Version 1.0.2 Show detailed release content

• Fix bug - Regression on brush editor

[2023-12-08] Version 1.0.1 Show detailed release content

• Fix bug - Windows compatibility

[2023-08-12] Version 1.0.0 Show detailed release content

• Implement - Krita Interface - Improve toolbar button
• Implement - Main Interface - Icon view
• Implement - Main Settings - Redesign
• Implement - Main Settings - Brushes - Improve layout for brushes informations
• Implement - Main Settings - Brushes - Organize brushes within groups
• Implement - Main Settings - Brushes - Re-organize brushes & and groups with Drag'n'Drop
• Implement - Main Settings - Brushes - Let user choose scratchpad background color
• Implement - Main Settings - Setups manager
• Implement - Brush Settings - Color button when No color
• Implement - Brush Settings - Take in account the preserve Alpha option
• Implement - Brush Settings - Gradient color
• Implement - Brush Settings - Ignore tool opacity
• Fix bug - Brush Settings - Keep user modifications
• Fix bug - Brush Settings - Ignore eraser mode option
• Fix bug - Main Interface - Crash when brushes from disabled bundles are referenced
• Fix bug - Main Interface - Lag/Freeze when changing brush

[2023-05-09] Version 0.2.2b Show detailed release content

• Fix bug Krita 5.2.0 Compatibility

[2021-12-11] Version 0.2.1b Show detailed release content

• Fix bug Invalid plugin initialisation

[2021-12-11] Version 0.2.0b Show detailed release content

• Improve Popup brushes list
• Implement Default behaviour option for brushes with specific values
• Implement Modification of brush properties from brush settings
• Implement Specific paint tool for brush
• Implement Specific background color for brush
• Fix bug Selecting brush from Popup brushes list
• Fix bug Error on Krita's exit
• Fix bug Shortcut lost on tool selection
• Fix bug Non modal settings window
• Fix bug Krita's brush properties lost
• Fix bug Invalid selected brush
• Fix bug Difference according to method used to exit selected plugin brush
• Fix bug Missing icon on Brushes list settings

[2021-12-02] Version 0.1.1b Show detailed release content

• Add missing .action file on installation
• Fix invalid default brush definition from settings when no configuration files exists
• On Windows, fix main Brushes list window staying over Brush setting window

[2021-12-01] Version 0.1.0b Show detailed release content

• First implemented/released version!

Bugs

There's a known bug on shortcut widget, all keystrokes are not recognized (at least on my Debian)

If you can't define a shortcut from plugin's interface, then do it from Krita's shortcuts interface

The plugin use Krita's API Krita.instance().resources(): on my DEV computer, with ~1000 presets, first call to this API function need ~4.0s for execution

• With plugin installed, Krita's startup will need a little bit more time than usual
• Should be faster with less presets

  A bug has been opened on Krita side for this case, not sure if it can be fixed or not...

Question? Bugs? Feature request?

Please use the dedicated Issues page

What’s next?

Who knows? 😅

License

Buli Brush Switch is released under the GNU General Public License (version 3 or any later version).

Buli Brush Switch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

Buli Brush Switch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should receive a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Buli Brush Switch. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Long story short: you're free to download, modify as well as redistribute Buli Brush Switch as long as this ability is preserved and you give contributors proper credit. This is the same license under which Krita is released, ensuring compatibility between the two.