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FireAlpaca Ver 2.14.1

( 2026/01/22 )

When multiple layers are selected, adding a layer folder now automatically groups the selected layers into that folder.

Fixed rasterization and onion skin generation issues in animation mode.

Test doodle for the @fpacatuto blog using the FA store brushes.

Firealpaca 2.11.5 added a timelapse function so I am just trying it out. it's quite interesting seeing it play back like that and it's easy to set with FA 🤓

Timelapse GIF below:

Firealpaca official backup instructions for brushes: https://firealpaca.net/material/easy-backup/ (Surprising recent Firealpaca ad screen link)

From their website:

"Starting from Ver. 2.13.17, backup and data restoration of “Brushes”, “Colors”, ‘Gradients’, and “Shortcut Settings” has become easier!"

Steps to backup and export your personalized Firealpaca data (brushes, colors, gradients and shortcut settings on your disk:

Open Help menu > click "Export Settins"

A new pop-up dialogue window "Do you want to back up your brushes, colors, gradients and shortcut settings?" > OK

Old way to back up all your personalized settings, brushes and materials (also it has been anofficial Firealpaca HUB tutorial for a while now):

How to transfer setting to another computer? https://hub.firealpaca.net/how-to-transfer-setting-to-another-computer/

Open Help Menu > click "Open Confiq Folder"

Thin ink pooling pen

Cotton swab ink pooling pen

My tests with them: the think ink pooling pen has its own custom texture with it as well, "Bokoboko2"

Hi, apologies for the week-long lateness! I was sick but was also trying to figure out which rose brush you meant.

Regardless of what brush you use, if it is a bitmap brush (uses a png or JPG image or a .MDP firelpaca file as a base), there should be this option for changing the color here in the brush settings:

"Apply Foreground color"

When you switch this on and OK the brush settings, then you should be able. Results vary based on the contents of the brush (whether it only uses lineart, has shading, how fark/saturated the original colors are etc). I used the carnation brush from brush store as an example, but you should be able to get similar results with your rose brush.

You can see that the "Apply FG color" version on the left in blue, has made the entire brush slightly more transparent, losing some of the detail of the original. If your rose brush is similarly more detailed, and you would like to keep this detail, what you can do, is open the brush from the brush folder (Help>open confiq folder and go to folder named "brush_bitmap") so you change the image colors via Filter>Hue, save as a new file and then make that a brush. But if you do not havethis sort of detail (as pictured above) or simply do not need it, you can try the first option of going into brush settings and finding "Apply FG color"

Hope yhis is helpful!

edit(16.05); this reply under the post is helpful too! you can always paint those roses and then use the filter menu options to change the hue.

Rainbow and Prism brushes in the Firealpaca brush store :)

Firealpaca devteam added these to brush store last week on June 18th - check out their official english twitter for the tweet.

pics of my own custom versions settings' under the cut:

I've neglected to write about some of the updates so here are a few with todays (it says 6/06 on the site in the change log but today is the 27th so I'm guessing this update was supposed to roll out at the start of the month, but maybe something happened).

You can also see some of the updates (+ new free brushes) on their twitter: https://twitter.com/firealpaca_en

FireAlpaca Ver 2.8.3(2022/06/6) (2022/06/27)

Brush post-processing function has been enhanced.

ACO color palette files can now be read (RGB, grayscale only).

Fixed a display problem with icons in the 3D Perspective window.

Drag zoom can now be disabled.

Text layers can now be merged into a 32 bpp layer.

FireAlpaca Ver 2.8.2(2022/06/6)

Improved quality of spreading brush around 1px wide degraded.

Improved the drawing feel of the scatter brush.

Animated GIF export quality has been improved.

Added "Material Random" option to bitmap brush.

Fixed a bug that caused all windows to be displayed at startup (2.8.1).

Fixed a crash that occurred when moving a halftone 8bpp layer by parts.

FireAlpaca Ver 2.8.1 (2022/05/31)

Fixed a problem when drawing shapes with the dot brush.

Fixed a bug where window positions were not being saved properly.

Brush spacing accuracy has been improved.

Added "Select Foreground Color Range" to the Selection menu.

FireAlpaca Ver 2.8.0 (2022/05/24)

Tool icon design changed.

Font shapes can now be listed when editing text.

Rectangles and ellipses in the Shape Brush can now have their aspect ratios fixed with the Shift key.

Added square and circle to the shape brush

Brush store display icon has been added to the brush window

Fixed a problem with scatter brushes (ss-soft pencils, etc.)

Fixed a bug when rotating the canvas 90 degrees (sometimes preventing brush painting

More general changes to take note of:

Tool icons changed in 2.8

fonts can be previewed from a list now

the rectangle and ellipse Shape Brush now have option of fixed aspect ratio via Shift key + square and circle exist separately as Shape Brush options

Brush store has a dedicated button in the brush window

Selections can be made according to color now (Select menu > Select Foreground Color Range) (Ver. 2.8.1)

GIF export quality fixed (2.8.2)

ACO pallettes can be read now (standard PShop palettes) (2.8.3)