It’s so convenient once you switch to canvas only mode. Undo with simply “z”, eraser mode, change alpha block, all your most used tools. Just get those mostly used right near your non-dominant hand. I’m sure you know it, but in krita you can change any keyboard shortcut to your own. If someone with knowledge of krita documentation, could make it react to modifier slopes (you press ‘alt’ for instance, the popup shows up, and is active to the moment you release this ‘alt’ modifier), it would get insanely awesome. Just you and your artwork.Ĭurrently those pop ups appear, when you press a button, and disappear once you move your mouse away or press anything else ( in color selector settings, in advanced color selector -> behaviour -> hide popup on click must be OFF - that’s super important).
With presets and opacity on Right mouse button, ctrl+r to click-pick the new layer, layers management in keyboard shortcuts (duplicate, switch active layer, move active layer, grouping, change visibility and alpha block) you can stay in full screen and canvas only modes forever. This way you don’t need to use the color docker. The same goes with Show color history - you can also make those tiles way bigger. You can customize its size in color selector options. You can either trace scanned drawings or work digitally first, then on a new layer start painting. One of the best ways to get started painting is to work on your lineart. Then you press it, and a big, full color selector shows off. Another brilliant video from artist David Revoy as he shares line art tips working in Krita. In keyboard shortcuts, in options you can change Show color selector from default shift+i to something closer to your non-dominant hand. My favourite one - picking the color without a docker. You can still use snap to assistant in the brush tool options to get super precise construction. If you want to check if the perspective is correct you make ““show assistants previews - on”” and just see those lines. Then: View -> Show painting assistants -> Off (grids not visible)Īnd: View -> Show assistants previews -> On/Off (good to have it in a shortcut) Perspective assistant, with small impact on a canvas: create vanishing points (1, 2 or 3, as you need in the artwork) using painting assistant tool. Note that this way you can have a big, main reference that is separate from the artwork (you can scale, mirror, move it separately) and small “mood references” on your canvas using reference tool, just to look at from time to time. You can then adjust them if you want reference to take less screen than artwork. If you pick Settings -> configure Krita-General -> Window -> Multiple document mode -> Subwindows You can open artwork and reference images as separate documents (ctrl+o), click window -> tile (ctrl+k) to have them on right and left half of canvas (if you want them to switch sides, click on the one you want to be on left, and click ctrl+k again). One obvious solution would be to stick to the same resolution in all files.In krita you can manage references both as embedded to the canvas, and embedded to the monitor. Resizing the brush to 25 pixels in the 300 ppi canvas does make it scale to the relative size it has on the 600 ppi one, but you can clearly see the loss in definition and detail. The 50 pixels brush stroke takes exactly twice the relative width of the canvas in the 300 ppi one compared to the 600 ppi one.
I made a screenshot after resizing both canvases to 'fit height', to show the alteration in the definition. Of course I can resize the brush tip according to the resolution, so that the size of the brush stroke is the same, but as you know that completely changes its appearance, because (at least for the brushes I am using) the brush tip is an image of fixed size.
I understand the technical reasons for it, but I do not know how to handle it, for consistency.
Given that brush sizes are expressed in pixels, not inches or cm, this implies that the same brush, set to the same pixel size, on a canvas of the same size, will appear exactly twice as large if the ppi setting is halved.
5 x 5), and I need to set the resolution (e.g. In Krita, when I create a new file, I set the canvas size in cm (e.g. If your canvas is 10 in wide, and you use a 2 in brush, you know your brush stroke will occupy about 1/5 of your canvas' width. That tells you immediately what size, relative to your canvas, your brush stroke will have when you apply it. (see Bob Ross' 'The Joy of Painting' videos, for instance). If you're working with 'physical' painting/drawing tools, you know the size of your canvas or sheet, and the size of your brush tips, pens, etc., like '2 in brush', '1/2 in brush', etc. If anyone could please advise, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't know if this is specific to Krita, I'd just like to understand how to handle it, as I cannot find any specific posts or info addressing it.