Welcome to our Krita tutorials. Krita is one of the best free painting programs available and includes a great variety of tools and features. While Photoshop has features that can be useful from painting to photo retouching to photo manipulation, too many options create a tough learning curve for a digital painter.
Krita keeps its interface painter friendly with a clean style and minimal distractions. Tools are accessibly placed, and most of the window is dedicated to the canvas. Since Krita has such a gentle learning curve, it's easy – and important – to familiarise yourself with its features before diving into the painting process. So we've put together a series of tips to get your started. It's definitely worth it as the program is so good it made it into our pick of the best software for digital artists.
Stick with this page for a tutorial on finding your way around the interface, or skip to page two for a step-by-step guide on how to tidy your sketches using Krita.
The Best Canvas Size And Resolution For Digital Art
Open up a new document by going to File>New. To control the size of the canvas, you can select from one of the templates in the Predefined drop-down menu, or either change the dimensions yourself. Choose either pixels or inches for your dimensions and set the canvas size to the ratio you want. I prefer a larger file size, no smaller than 3, 000px on the shortest size but no larger than 7, 000px on the longest. Finally, set your Resolution either to 300 or 600; the higher resolution, the greater quality for the final image.
On the left-hand side is the Toolbar. I'll be pointing out some of the tools you're likely to use the most. The Freehand Brush tool is what you're going to be doing all your painting and drawing with. Underneath that, the Transform tool is a handy feature for selecting and changing the size or shape of a section. The Gradient tool and Fill tool are useful for filling in large sections with colour, and the Color Selector tool is necessary for blending when painting. The Outline Selection tool make selecting a specific part of your piece easy, and is often used in conjunction with the Transform tool.
On the right-hand toolbar is the Advanced Color Selector, Layers panel, and Brush Presets. Using a colour wheel makes shifting hues easy, as well as useful for setting up complementary tones. The Layers panel enables you to create either new paint, mask, or filter layers, giving you full control of your canvas. Lastly, the Brush Presets makes it possible to quickly look through and select brushes. You can filter by types of brushes, or select your favourites for quick access.
Mockup] Sketch To Blue (for Inking)
By selecting the Freehand Brush tool and clicking the Edit Brush Settings button on the top toolbar, you'll see a large variety of customisation options for your selected brush. The two features that you'll mostly be using will be the Opacity and Size filters. Make sure that Pressure is selected for either of them, depending on what kind of brush you're using, so that Krita syncs up to your tablet properly.
When you're ready to save your canvas, go to File>Export and select your preferred file type. I usually stick to JPEG format unless I'm exporting a file with transparency, in which case I'll use a PNG file and make sure I have an alpha channel selected.
Sara is an illustrator who works with both digital and traditional mediums, and enjoys making YouTube videos teaching on various art topics.When you start Krita for the first time there will be no canvas or new document open by default. You will be greeted by a welcome screen , which will have option to create a new file or open existing document. To create a new canvas you have to create a new document from the File menu or by clicking on New File under start section of the welcome screen. This will open the new file dialog box. If you want to open an existing image, either use File ‣ Open… or drag the image from your computer into Krita’s window.
Canvas Size With Krita
Click on the Custom Document section and in the Dimensions tab choose A4 (300ppi) or any size that you prefer from the Predefined drop down. To know more about the other sections such as create document from clipboard and templates see Create New Document .
Make sure that the color profile is RGB and depth is set to 8-bit integer/channel in the color section. For advanced information about the color and color management refer to Colors .
Now, on the blank white canvas, just left click with your mouse or draw with the pen on a graphic tablet. If everything’s correct, you should be able to draw on the canvas! The brush tool should be selected by default when you start Krita, but if for some reason it is not, you can click on this
Tips And Tricks
Of course, you’d want to use different brushes. On your right, there’s a docker named Brush Presets (or on top, press the
If you want to tweak the presets, check the Brush Editor in the toolbar. You can also access the Brush Editor with the
Tick any of the squares to choose a brush, and then draw on the canvas. To change color, click the triangle in the Advanced Color Selector docker.
Digital Painting With Krita 5 For Beginners
Key, your current brush switches between erasing and painting. This erasing method works with most of the tools. You can erase using the line tool, rectangle tool, and even the gradient tool.
Now, once you have figured out how to draw something in Krita, you may want to save it. The save option is in the same place as it is in all other computer programs: the top-menu of File, and then Save. Select the folder you want to have your drawing, and select the file format you want to use (
Is Krita’s default format, and will save everything). And then hit Save. Some older versions of Krita have a bug and require you to manually type the extension.
Is Krita Good For Digital Drawing, Or Should One Invest In Photoshop?
Check out Navigation for further basic information, Basic Concepts for an introduction as Krita as a medium, or just go out and explore Krita!Computers work with files and as a painting program, Krita works with images as the type of file it creates and manipulates.
If you have a text document, it of course contains letters, strung in the right order, so the computer loads them as coherent sentences.
This is the main data on the paint layers you make. So these are the strokes with the paint brush and look pixelated up close. A multi-layer file will contain several of such layers, that get overlaid on top of each other so make the final image.
Krita Vs Procreate
These are mathematical operations that tell the computer to draw pixels on a spot. This makes them much more scalable, because you just tell the operation to make the coordinates 4 times bigger to scale it up. Due to this vector data is much more editable, lighter, but at the same time it’s also much more CPU intensive.
Stuff like the filter layers, that tells Krita to change the colors of a layer, but also transparency masks, group layer and transformation masks are saved to multi-layer files. Being able to load these depend on the software that initially made the file. So Krita can load and save groups, transparency masks and layer effects from PSD, but not load or save transform masks.
The image size is the dimension and resolution of the canvas. Image size has direct effect file size of the Krita document. The more pixels that need to be remembered and the higher the bit depth of the color, the heavier the resulting file will be.
Krita Guide For Illustrator
. It means it is actually putting 300 dots of colors in an area equal to an Inch. This means the number of pixels your artwork has in a relative area of an inch.
This is the default PPI of monitors as assumed by all programs. It is not fully correct, as most monitors these days have 125 PPI or even 300 PPI for the retina devices. Nonetheless, when making an image for computer consumption, this is the default.
We went over color depth in the Color Management page . What you need to understand is that Krita has image color spaces, and layer color spaces, the latter which can save memory if used right. For example, having a line art layer in grayscale can half the memory costs.
How To Make Photoshop Like Krita?
Because there’s a difference between image color space and layer color space, you can change only the image color space in Image ‣ Properties… which will leave the layers alone. But if you want to change the color space of the file including all the layers you can do it by going to Image ‣ Convert Image Color Space… this will convert all the layers color space as well.
Krita will automatically save who created the image into your image’s metadata. Along with the other data such as time and date of creation and modification,
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