User Manual

Discover Krita’s features through an online manual. Guides to help you transition from other applications.

Contents:

• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • Starting Krita
  • Basic Concepts
  • Navigation
• Introduction Coming From Other Software
  • Introduction to Krita coming from Photoshop
  • Introduction to Krita coming from Paint Tool SAI
• Drawing Tablets
  • What are Tablets?
  • Supported Tablets
  • Drivers and Pressure Sensitivity
  • Where it can go wrong: Windows
  • Wacom Tablets
• Loading and Saving Brushes
  • The Brush settings drop-down
  • Making a Brush Preset
  • Sharing Brushes
• On-Canvas Brush Editor
• Mirror Tools
  • Mirroring along a rotated line
• Painting with Assistants
  • Types
  • Setting up Krita for technical drawing-like perspectives
• Working with Images
  • What do Images Contain?
  • Metadata
  • Image size
  • Author and Description
  • Cropping and resizing the canvas
  • Resizing the canvas
  • Saving, Exporting and Opening Files
• Saving, AutoSave and Backup Files
  • Saving
  • AutoSave
  • Backup Files
• Templates
  • Animation Templates
  • Comic Templates
  • Design Templates
  • DSLR templates
  • Texture Templates
• Introduction to Layers and Masks
  • Managing layers
  • Types of Layers
  • How are layers composited in Krita?
  • Inherit Alpha or Clipping layers
  • Masks and Filters
• Selections
  • Creating Selections
  • Editing Selections
  • Removing Selections
  • Display Modes
  • Global Selection Mask (Painting a Selection)
  • Selection from layer transparency
  • Pixel and Vector Selection Types
  • Common Shortcuts while Using Selections
• Python Scripting
  • Managing Python plugins
  • Introduction to Python Scripting
  • How to make a Krita Python plugin
• Tag Management
  • Adding a New Tag for a Brush
  • Assigning an Existing Tag to a Brush
  • Changing a Tag’s Name
  • Deleting a Tag
• Soft Proofing
  • Out of Gamut Warning
• Vector Graphics
  • What are vector graphics?
  • Tools for making shapes
  • Arranging Shapes
  • Editing shapes
  • Working together with other programs
• Snapping
• Animation with Krita
  • Workflow
  • Introduction to animation: How to make a walk cycle
• Japanese Animation Template
  • Basic structure of its layers
  • Its layer contents
  • Basic steps to make animation
• Gamut Masks
  • Selecting a gamut mask
  • In the color selector
  • Editing/creating a custom gamut mask
  • Importing and exporting