Just a quick heads up: the Selection Outline Tool has been renamed to "Freehand Selection Tool", so searching for "outline" won't work. Typing in "freehand" or "selection" will bring it up. Probably painfully obvious, but still.
The best thing about outline selection tool is that you can additionally press ctrl while selecting to prevent it from finishing the selection. It also allows to combine freehand and straight edges in the shape :)
Thanks ;) I tried to persuade developers to add this feature to shape engine too. Maybe I'll make an official wish on a bugtracker, when they'll have a bit more time sheets this big resource rewrite is done :)
Le disclaimer omg 😂 merci pour ce magnifique tutoriel, si tu savais a quelle point tu m'apprend beaucoup plus que les profs de mon lycée d'art ❤️ gros soutien sur toi! Merci encore !
Despite the disclaim I followed your video till the end without difficulties and I learnt some more tricks about this amazing program. Thank you soooo much!!
Thank you for the encouragements! I still facepalm myself after hearing my voice ("oootline"/ "assignaid" / "Pythschshon script") or looking at my facial expression while talking. I keep doing it because I enjoy sharing tips and I like videos as a media; but woww, it's difficult. I'll keep practicing.
I like to assign Alt + Q for the pop up palette. If I'm going to try and color match a lot I might change the color selector over to Alt + W since it's easier to use with left hand versus it's existing shortcut, this does replace the Window shortcut incase you happen to use that.
I love using Krita ^_^ I really like the "hold shift and drag" to change brush size, it's simple, easy, quick and so important to my personal workflow.
Something that helped me with lineart was to assign a fast shortcut to create a new raster layer (I use F1 for easy access with my left hand, moving the handbook shortcut to F12) so I can overshoot my lines with new layers and avoid get so hung up in doing the perfect lines in the first pass, something that I still struggle with, so I can come back with the pick layer shortcut (R) to clean the lines later before merging the lines with Ctrl-Shift-E, really basic stuff but it really helped me a lot. I don't recall if I learned this with one of David's tips on lineart, but regardless, I love your work!
Thanks David! We always appreciate your videos & all the incredible work you do for Krita. You're an amazing artist & a truly generous person, helping to create open source brushes & sets that all artists can use regardless of their wealth or education level. I hope you & your family & friends are doing well during these hard times
Thank you so much! I just started digital art for a few days now and I'm pretty new to Krita. You're videos have been very helpful to me. Thank you for making informative content.
Oh, I nearly forgot to mention my favorite feature in krita :) "Show color selector" on shift+i by default. That's so much easier for me to reach colors there than the docker or small RMB popup.
@@omedha.4176 Maybe pressing 'r' to select a layer just by clicking on its content on canvas. Then all the layers with various effects can be locked, not to be selected this way. Just so much more convenient that toggling visibility of all the layers one after another ;)
Mnemonic suggestion for Opacity keys: i = more invisible, o = more opaque Thanks for the video. I'm a noob with Krita and art in general. Looking forward to learning more. Merci.
*You* are an angel for leaving beautiful comment. I started my day with fixing gutter under the rain around the house, and getting back to computer to start my production day of drawing and reading it give me a boost on this gray friday. Thank you.
really helpful, as a beginner using krita. ive been using Sketchbook since my first time trying digital art, its so easy to use but so lackluster with many features compared to other aps . and im currently trying my best to study environment art (in order to compliment my already developed character drawing skill) so krita is the best place to study it. thanks!
You forgot about Undo with one key (just Z without Ctrl), its shortcut feature №1. You can also reassign numbers above letter keys(you need to delete them shortcuts in Canvas input settings). I assigned the lasso to 1. Remove a selection to 2, Transform to 3. This is really a transformation on the fly. In general, I shifted everything that I need to the left. I switch lightness and transparency. I move and turn off layers, create new ones. And a few more minor actions. All this without raising my hand. It is so convenient. I love Krita.
Yes! I thought I'm the only one who simplified the undo shortcut to 'z' :D And I also have all the shortcuts right under the left hand - toggling alpha locking and inheritance on layers, 'show color selector'... I hardly ever go out of the canvas-only mode as I don't need the interface anymore. I even scripted some shortcuts myself: switching between most used opacity values and modes, applying zoom and rotation of the canvas to the reference picture in another view so they always have the same size. So amazing to be able to do all of this in krita.
Thank you for these great tips. I like animating with Krita and these are the less obvious keyboard shortcuts I use most often for that...(all manual set up) the toggle onion skin, toggle lock, and toggle alpha lock along with playback, set end and set start time (for playback).
Oh yes, I can imagine how useful they could be for animating! If you find good default that do not conflict with the Krita default; feel free to share them on Krita-artist forum. I think developpers are often a bit affraid of adding a new default shortcut because it's hard to know the habits of users and the available keys. It could help them.
@@DavidRevoy I had not thought of going on the Krita artist forum, thank you for the idea. I am grateful for your videos - so inspiring and your brushes have been very fun to use.
Merci, c'est bien fait, David! I've been using Photoshop and Illustrator for over 20 years as an advertising illustrator and want to change to Krita. Your Videos are very helpful and you obviously think about your text before you speak. Five Stars! By the way, your artwork is also top rank!
I have configure one of the two button of my drawing pen to activate E for Eraser and Right Click in order to display the pop-up palette which contains a lot of shortcut. Really handy tools. You can assign the popup palette in "Canvas Input Settings". Otherwise, since I'm using a screen tablet, using Space / Space+Shift / Space+Ctrl gave you a lot of freedom to move / rotate or zoom in your drawing easily. Not sure if those are the default settings, since I'm left handed, I made a lot of tweaks to shortcuts and interface. That's my tip to left handed people, change the docker and shortcut to ease your work, made the mistake to believe it was a waste of time. Basic stuff : put your canvas on the left of the screen, didn't do that for years, was a huge mistake.
Thanks for your tips! yes, Space / Space+Shift / Space+Ctrl navigation are default and I spent a lot of time and detailed PDF spec to convince dev to put this ones on Krita back in 2010 to 2012: they are sort of 'industry standard' as Corel/MangaStudio/Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign/QuarkXPress also have them. The right-click (second stylus button) pop-up palette is by default on GNU/Linux distributions; here my first button of stylus mimic the Ctrl to pick color. I'm not recommending it much because it is a bad habit I have since probably 15y; at least it allows me to keep detailing while having someone on phone :D E for Eraser sounds like a good choice for drawing. 👍👍👍
@@leiserfernandezgallo5033 I don't think I have a better resolution than the one inside the video; I drew it on 1920x1080; so if you put fullscreen and make a screen copy; you'll have exactly the same as the source.
Hey, David I really love youre videos to Krita. Can you do a Video on Layers? I have some troubles with Klipping Layers, transparency or Cliping masks etc. Would really be helpful.
Je viens de tombé sur ta chaine, merci david de prendre du temps je sais ce que je sais en tant qu'ancien youtubeur ( j'ai bien dit ancien, j'ai supprimé ma chaine tellement ) au plaisir :)
Hehe, good idea. I like doing April pranks, I do a little yearly on the blog. Unfortunately, it's often prepared an evening before and making a full video with the video editing and all is rarely a time budget I can spend for just a prank. But I'll keep the idea in a corner of my brain. I hope I'll be enough organised to have time for a prank like that in April 2023. :)
Thanks! Good idea. I'll note it on my list of ideas for future video. I often open it when I have empty ideas and need inspiration. Thank you for the suggestion.
Hi, David, thak you for you amazing work! I would like to have a drag+click shortcut for brush tip hardness just like photoshop, I know you can do that for brush size already! Any ideas? I figure since you are the most knowledgeable user of krita I know of you would have some insight on that... I find that feature very useful in Photoshop, both for painting and retouching/manipulating!
Hi Yuri, unfortunately this feature doesn't exist yet in Krita. All we have is a slider in the brush editor to control that. If you have a little time, maybe you could feature-request it on krita-artists.org/ forum. Developpers are around and maybe other user might give you a temporary workaround better than what I can. Thanks for your kind words!
@@DavidRevoy yay, thanks for the fast response, I didn't expect that... Yep.. I might do that, but i suspect devs have already a hard time debugging and other more essential stuff.. maybe if more people think its a good idea they implement that! I am already very happy of what a Free software is capable of.. can't really complain. I feel like I can almost transition to krita with no regrets, but some shortcuts like that would make leaving Adobe much more enjoyable... It already has powerful stuff, like the wraparound capabilities is black magic! Puts industry standard software to shame, I feel like a jerk asking people smarter than me to work for free just to please my needs xD heheh And you are welcome, you working is top notch, u a legend, makes us all proud fighting for the free software community, keep up man!
@@WojtekTrybus Big +1. Yes, Transform tool is one of the rare tools that can affect recursively the layers inside groups. And a small tip I have; when I want to clean-up an area on the full layer stack; I just select it, then I start a transform on the group and move the content recursively outside the canvas. It's like a powerful "delete" recursively on all the stack :D (usefull for comic page to restart a panel from scratch).
Thank you for your informative videos. Very helpful. A little help please: As a new Krita user, 4.2.2 I was unable to find the pre-installed python plugins. Going to Settings > Configure... > Python Plugin Manager there are no plugins listed. If I go to Tools > Scripts nothing again. I've searched the internet and Krita documentation but nothing addresses the issue. In references I have found, in each case, there are numerous plugins listed, but none in mine. I have redownloaded Krita and reinstalled - same issue.
Hi, Thanks! Ha! that's a big problem if you can't access the list. I can't reproduce the issue on Linux here and so, I can't help troubleshoting it because I only have Linux machines at home... If you are using a Windows or Mac (or another package on Linux than appimage), can you report it to the Krita development team? Krita 4.2.2 is only 2 or 3 days old, and it would help if you find something that totally got skip in betatesting. Thanks!
@@DavidRevoy Thank you so much for your prompt response. I appreciate it. As I just downloaded 4.2.2 thinking it will solve the problem, I had the same issue with the previous version. I will be happy to contact the development team. I would think I'm not the only one experiencing this. FYI I'm running Windows 10 64. Thanks again.
It has nothing to do with the main subject of your video but about your advanced color selector. Is there a reason to use the HSV instead of HSL ? The HSL square has 2 white corners so you can really use a cardinal way of thinking UP is always lighter Right is always more saturated. Which is not the case with HSV (where you have full saturation at the top right corner). I've been using it for a while. Sometimes thinking of getting back to the triangle which forces you to realize that lighter can sometiemes only be achieved with less saturation...curious to know your opinion about all that. A word about shortcuts...I have quite a few ones to allow me working without touching the layer docker, popping the presets and color selector in full screen mode etc...this is so powerfull. It's clearly a major feature of krita to me. Photoshop is so rigid about it (especially if you are left handed). I have nearly everything at the tip of a single key shortcut.
Hey, about color selector that's really good question. I guess I haven't thought a lot about it. I switched to HSL and I think I rarely tested it. I switched between HSV or directly a HSY' (because of the good reputation of perceptual correctness) but the way HSY' put the high pick of saturation in a variable vertical position on the right side (sometime on top for yellow, on bottom for violet/blue) make me come back to HSV. I see the HSL doesn't have this issue: the high burst of saturation is always at middle of the right side. Interesting, thank you for sharing. I'll try probably a speedpainting or two with it to see if I can take advantage of this layout against my deeply rooted habit with HSV type of selector. So far, I found useful: 1. the square shapes (to keep a vertical 0 to 255 b&w values of my 8bit RGB) with a predictable 128/128/128 gray at center. This is the "digital mid-gray" (way too bright to be a correct perceptual mid-gray) and 2. The hue wheel (to spot the opposite hue and 'wings' friendly similar hue). I'm a bit affraid at a first glance the HSL will offer me less area for the darker hue and everything that happens near to black (and I'm discovering the human eyes really is performant to sort dark and shady situation; rooting a picture in darkness creates a cheap HDR effect with light accents appearing like laser on modern LCDs).
@@DavidRevoy Oh I see, I just realized I stretched my docker to neartly twice the height and pick darks easily. That must be why...problem with this is that the shape doesn't follow in the popup color picker (I get a square).
Dudeeee... when he said "The ultimate shortcut" i was like "yeah... what could do the so called ultimate shortcut..." then he used the ultimate shortcut... the name is no exaggeration
Haha, that was a hint of humor when I scripted that part on paper. But yep, F1 / Documentation is very well maintained on Krita (developpers really have disciplin to document any new feature they add). So, each time I meet new option poping in a panel after a new version, a little browsing the documentation is the best way to get information. Thanks for your comment :)
It's allowing you to set up your perfect eraser that you can always go to with simply using a keystroke/ macro rather than seeking in the brushes or the pop up. For me, I'm usually ok with the key "e" just turning my current brush into an eraser, bc I like that it stays the size I'm already working on. But I can see why some people (especially those who do Comics or Text rather than painting) would like to have a specific eraser, e.g., a large hard angular eraser, that's instantly available with a keystroke & doesn't require searching through the brushes or using the popup menu
i was wondering, what are your tablet's buttons shortcuts? to make it easy in your workflow? je me demandais quels étaient tes shortcuts sur les boutons de ta tablette? pour allez plus vite dans le workflow?
Unfortunately; I never really liked the touch of the Intuos4 buttons; you really need to press hard to trigger them. That's nice in a way, because my cats can walk on it without pressing the keys; but for key like my TenBrush perfect Eraser that I use all the time it is not comfy enough. So, I use it rarely, prefering the keyboard. I have on it the Ctrl+Z; my "H" to hide layer; a Ctrl color picker... Recently, I put on it the O.B.S shortcut to record video and stop video and it works for me. I think I'll keep them for this type of action or launching script (launching a backup/ launching a scan)
Hey, in the settings you can find them easily with the search field (if undo don't return anything, search for Z ). Here I map them to simple "Z" and "Y" to redo.
Hi, it's because you have an habit coming from another art program where Eraser is a tool (E) and brush is a tool (B). In Krita, (B) is a freehand way to trace and (E) changes the blending mode to erase. Just press (E) a second time to go back in blending mode 'normal'.
@@DavidRevoy yeah ,i just came from photoshop and there is specific style for erase and different type for brush . Here is erase is like brush that you picked . This is so strange for me
I just move the cursor over the edge of the selection (the marching ants), and Krita proposes a move action to drag and drop it (the cursor changes). It works with all selection tools. I think this action appeared during Krita 4 (maybe after 4.2?), so if you run an older version it might explain why you couldn't find it.
@@DavidRevoy I'm using the artist 12 pro and hovering over doesn't do anything. If I right click the pen it brings up the colour wheel palate. Should I change that because it doesn't drag it unless I use my mouse which is a pain to keep switching. Also to deselect is 3 buttons, ctrl,shift +D or A I think, could I change that shortcut to another? Just pressing D for example.
@@bittersweet82 You should probably report your issue to the Krita developper: maybe the code of Krita could detect the "mouse hover" state of the driver of your tablet; the dev don't have all the tablets and all operating system so feedback like that will help making Krita better on the long term. You might also tell it to your hardware vendor so they make a driver respecting the standards of mouse action (maybe). Yes, each time you find a tiny frustration about keyboard shortcuts, or you find one too complex, feel free to customise the keyboard to your liking. Krita can adapt to you for that, better to use that power :-)
@@DavidRevoy I've found another problem as well, the shortcut keys for the transform tool don't work with the deselect ctrl+D and when I paint inside I can't use the paint outside that square I made. I can't deselect it kind of stays there and then the whole page freezes.
