I always place custom brush downloads in a new empty folder somewhere outside of my Corel Painter application/program folder and outside of my Painter User folder. This isolates the Zip file and extracted contents and avoids unnecessary confusion. I suggest you do that as well.
When I extracted the ZIP file for David's Suminagashi brush library into a new empty folder, this is what it contained:
brushes_dl3_folder (not needed except for David's organization of brush downloads)
Inside that folder, I found:
- Suminagashi (the brush library folder)
- .DS_Store (a file not needed in Windows)
- Brushes_ReadMe.rtf (information from David)
- Brushes_ReadMe.txt (information from David)
Inside the Suminagashi brush library folder, I found:
- 1 Suminagashi (brush category folder)
- Distortonagashi (brush category folder)
- 1 Suminagashi.jpg (brush category icon image file)
- Distortonagashi.jpg (brush category icon image file)
- I won't list them all, but inside the 1 Suminagashi brush category folder and the Distortonagashi brush category folder are all of the brush variants for those two brush categories.
NOTE: When the ZIP file is extracted, the Suminagashi brush library can be
installed in any version from Painter 7 through Painter X.1.
Before going to the final installation step, remember if you want to install this brush library in more than one Corel Painter version, don't just move the Suminagashi brush library folder.
Instead, copy it from the folder where you extracted the ZIP fle, then paste it in the appropriate location to install it.
If you move the Suminagashi brush library folder to install it into a more recent Painter version (i.e. Painter X or X.1), and later delete the ZIP file, you won't be able to install it into an earlier Painter version (i.e. Painter IX, Painter 8, or Painter 7). The reason is, once the brush library is installed into a more recent Painter version, since brushes are not backward version compatible, they won't work in an earlier Painter version.
Now that you know the Suminagashi brush library folder's contents, close the Suminagashi brush library folder, highlight and copy it, then paste it into the following folder:
Mac - Applications > Corel Painter [version number from 7 through X.1] > Brushes
Windows - Program Files > Corel > Corel Painter [version number from 7 through X.1]> Brushes
TIP: Close other programs while using the Suminagashi brush library. These brush variants use a lot of resources and you'll have an easier time with them if you allow Painter to have as much of your system resources as possible.
Also, if you're using Painter 7 through Painter IX.5, you'll be wise to close Painter every now and then and delete the Pre-built Brush File (the file doesn't exist in Painter X through Painter X.1). This file is used to store brush building information (Painter has to build the brush before we can use it) and if the Pre-built Brush File is deleted by the user no harm is done as Painter automatically generates a new file the next time the program is launched.
In Painter IX through Painter IX.5, unlike earlier Painter versions, the Pre-built Brush File has a maximum file size of 200 MB, and the file size is automatically reduced by Painter when it reaches that size. That file size is way too large for some users' systems to handle, mine included, so I continued to close Painter and delete the Pre-built Brush File frequently. I did this more frequently, depending on the brush variants I was using. Some brush variants make this file grow large, and grow fast, and the Suminagashi brush library's variants are among those that do. In previous versions Painter 6 through Painter 8, the Pre-built Brush File had no size limit and grew to be huge, sometimes very fast.
The Pre-built Brush file is located in the following folders, depending on the Painter version (though it's not applicable to the Suminagashi brush library, I'll include Painter 6 since it's the earliest version that used a Pre-built Brush File the user could delete):
Application/Program Folder
- Painter 7 > Brushes
- Painter 8 > Brushes
User Folder - Painter IX through Painter IX.5
- Mac - Users > [User Name] > Library > Application Support > Corel > Painter IX > Brushes
- Windows - Documents and Settings > [User Name] > Application Data > Corel > Painter IX > Brushes
Launch Painter, load the Suminagashi brush library, and Have fun!