How to use Photoshop ABR brushes in Dogwaffle/Howler/Artist [Commercial]

staigerman

Here's a tutorial using Ron Deviney's excellent birds and tree images in ABR format.

http://youtu.be/29ZoopGSs1Y

No, Howler does not load .abr Photoshop brushes, not yet anyway. But you can still use some of them, indirectly. For example, using Photoshop or other imaging tools that support .abr brush files, you can render such a brush as high resolution image stamp and save it to Png file. You can then build that into a custom brush in Howler.

There are also viewers and converters, some of which are freeware, such as abrMate from texturemate. Those can also help you get the abr brush image collections into a suitable format, so that you may take them into your Dogwaffle artwork by way of PNG image for instance. Such image files and other formats can easily be loaded into the main image, but also into the swap image, or loaded as a stored image for later pickup. Most importanly, you can load them into the custom brush. Another option that might fit your workflow is by copying through the Clipboard, but keep in mind that you may not get the alpha channel to get through that way. Still, if the image is a greyscale or black and white, you may often find that to be easy for restoring the alpha channel as transparency mask.

Stay tuned for more tutorials on this general topic.

If you're not familiar with this latest version 9.5 of PD Howler, check the Daz offering here: http://www.daz3d.com/pd-howler-9-5-purely-ballistic-powered-by-project-dogwaffle

staigerman

Here is another video in the same series on how to use the images contained in abr files to take them further in Dogwaffle's Howler 9.5, avalable here at DAZ.. This time we look at heart shapes from a free abr brushset that was made by the author of abrMate, as seen at texturemate.com - and we collect the exported PNG images into a single new brush that contains a filmstrip of the images, hence turning it into an animated brush. We then use it in various ways, as a regular brush, along a rectangle tool, oval tools, curve tools etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockoWr0keJs