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:

Open Krita and go to Tools -> Scripts -> Import Python Plugins... and select the bulibrushswitch.zip archive and let the software handle it.
Restart Krita
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.
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.

Grum999/BuliBrushSwitch