Hey,
Krita – is a free and open source painting
program.
I’m using Krita 4.0 version.
When you open Krita for the first time, for
a main language it may use either English
or your native language.
If you for some reason want to change the
language of Krita, you can do in Settengs
menu.
Here .
If you change the language, you need to restart
Krita to see the changes.
For my experience it’s better to use English
as main Krita language, because it’s easier
to find any additional information about tools,
features and tutorials.
Ok, let’s create a new document.
File – New
I usually choose Custom document and these
are dimentions.
If I want to print my document later, I set
resolution to 300 and I choose CMYK model
here.
But If I’m not gonna print it, I set model
to RGB and set resolution to 72, it’s enough.
Now, open content tab.
What I do here, I prefer to have 2 layers
at the start and one of them is the background
layer, I use grey color at the start.
You can click on it and change it as you want.
And the second layer is transparent.
Ok, now I lock the background layer in order
to prevent it from me drawing on it.
And here, like I said, layer 2 is not white,
it’s transparent.
Considering the interface, you can move all
these small panels, like in any other painting
software.
Also, you can save your workspace or load
any standard workspace right here.
For instance, I saved my workspace and if
I need to use animation, I could load workspace
for it here and after I’ve done with that,
I can go back to my workspace and load it
again.
About all these panels, you can find them
here, in the settings menu
Settings – Dockers and here you can tick
any docker that you want.
I use Advanced color selector which is the
color wheel, you can click on this button
on the top left corner and here you change
the color model.
I also use Color slider docker,
Brush presets – list of brushes right here,
Layers,
Overview – in many other programs this panel
is called Navigater, basicly it’s a small
version of your canvas,
Palette docker, which contains color swatches,
you can add and save colours that you like
in order to create your own palettes,
and here we have Tool box – which is all
the tools, right here,
and Tool Options.
This docker is extremely important, because
here you can adjust all the settings of all
Krita tools.
For instance, I can pick Bucket tool, choose
color and fill the area, but on the Tool options
I can adjust all it’s options, and also,
I can tick “use pattern” and now I can
fill the area with pattern, not the color.
I chose the pattern here.
Ok, now I’ll tell a few words about tools,
but only a few, because I can’t cover every
single tool and all it’s options.
But actually, you can learn all about it on
your own on Krita website.
People who created this documentation are
amazing, because here you have short and informative
description of every tool with all the shortcuts.
And honestly, it’s better than any youtube
video about them.
By the way, you can adjust all the shortcuts
in the menu Settings – Configure Krita.
Keyboard shortcuts.
Going back to tools, besides drawing and selection
tools, Krita allows you to use vector tools,
you can use them on vector layer.
You can create it right here.
If you don’t need using vector, you can
work on Paint layer, you can create it using
this button, or choosing it here in the list.
Ok, now let’s pick our main tool, which
is the Brush tool, shortcut for it is B on
your keyboard.
So,
And you can control the size of you brush
either here, on the toolbar, or in the brush
settings here.
BTW You can find all the brush settings right
here.
Also, to control the brush size you can use
the shortcuts, like holding shift button and
dragging your mouse to the right or left.
I personally prefer to use square brackets
on my keyboard to control brush size.
And here I set these two fields to Opacity
and flow.
If you press E button on your keyboard, or
this button on the tool bar you activate Eraser
mode for the brush you are using at the moment.
Press E again and you can go back to the brush
mode.
When you draw, sometimes you need to make
straight lines, and instead of switching to
the line tool, press and hold V on your keyboard.
If you hold Shift you can control the angle.
If you need to pick a color from your canvas,
you can press and hold CTRL and you activate
the color picker tool.
You can activate pan tool holing spacebar
button on your keyboard.
You can rotate your canvas with 4 and 6 buttons,
and 5 resets the rotation.
Here are selection tools, and you can select
the area and either grab a transform tool
or press Ctrl+T on your keyboard and you can
transform this area.
Don’t forget to open Tool options docker
to adjust the settings of transform tool.
And my favorite tool is assistant tool, it’s
a lifesaver when it comes to drawing in perspective.
I choose here “vanishing point”, select
Brush tool and tick “snap to assistant”.
And I can draw in perspective.
I also use parallel ruler, and sometimes perspective
grid.
If you right click on the canvas in Krita
you will get a pop-up palette.
It contains brush presets and some other settings.
I’ve talked about it when I made a video
about Krita 4.0 release.
You can change the amount of brushes on this
palette in the menu: Settings – Configure
Krita, General and here, you can change it.
But for some reason, some people find this
pop-up palette irritating, and if you are
one of them, you can turn it off in the settings
menu.
: Settings – Configure Krita, Canvas and
settings.
Also, you may want to add to your tool bar
a few buttons, for instans, let’s add Undo
and Redo buttons.
We go to Settings menu, Configure Toolbars,
choose “Brushes and stuff” toolbar and
here we search what we want to add.
And here we have it.
Ok.
That’s it for today.
I really hope that this video was helpful.
If you liked.
Please share it in your social medea, it can
help the channel grow.
Thanks for watching
Oh, I also wanted to mention that one of my
favourite Krita tutorials are ones made by
Age of Asparagus, I used to learn Krita by
them when I opened it for the first time,
and I admire all the work he has done.
It’s sad that he doesn’t do it anymore.
Now, his tutorial is a bit out of date, because
he used Krita 2.9 version.
But it’s still great.
I’ll leave the link in the description.
Maybe you can find it helpful too.
And of course, don’t forget to watch David
Revoy’s tutorials, they are extremely helpful.
Bue, Thanks for staying with me!
