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(DIR) Post #ALihYhNrJngjqoPRQm by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T13:58:15Z
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Since I'm at it, I think I'll do a little thread of #Krita first impressions as I try to copy some of my existing presets from Photoshop. I have used it before, but never extensively, and there's been a new major version since. I'm also on a new hard drive, so this is essentially a clean install, what a treat.
(DIR) Post #ALihYi3goH9HwXyqdE by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T14:02:19Z
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Bug? Misaimed feature? On first launch, Krita spanned both my screens, not a very useful arrangement at all. Don't think I've seen any other program do this. I guess it just grabs your desktop resolution and sizes itself to some percentage of it?
(DIR) Post #ALihYibMn45Tczjk7k by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T14:16:49Z
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The default theme feels nice and familiar from Tiled, is this Qt Fusion?Opened up a template I made in PS. Works perfectly.I can pan with MMB, fantastic <3Eraser mode being a toggle is neat, I think most of the time this is more useful than separate Eraser/Brush modes. I will need to get used to just pressing E instead of two separate buttons though...Opening files feels a bit slow, but I think it's just because there isn't a big fat progress bar in my face, the time's probably fine.
(DIR) Post #ALihYj4R2zL759KxQu by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T14:23:08Z
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Two #Krita questions:Is there a way to reset the brush size to the preset size without also resetting everything else? I often use that feature in PS.Is it possible to set shortcuts for Brush in Eraser Mode, Brush Not in Eraser mode, so that I can quickly swap from other tools? In particular, I often need to go from selecting to erasing or painting, but in Krita it seems like I have to always keep an eye on that global eraser mode toggle.
(DIR) Post #ALihYjbP4Pi8jOlHou by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T14:27:53Z
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I love the keyboard shortcut UI. It's sorted nicely, and you can see the default shortcut without having to reset your custom one, which is great for when you want to help someone else.
(DIR) Post #ALihYk1zTYyi3rCWGG by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T14:54:20Z
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Also love the offset UI of the Resize Canvas dialog. Clicking an anchor updates the offset, inputting a custom offset hides all the anchor points. You can drag the red box representing your current canvas size to adjust the offset too, and you can click the lock buttons to lock that dragging to respect manually-input values.I've posted screenshots of it on the Tiled Discord, Tiled could really use this way of dealing with resizing offsets.
(DIR) Post #ALihYkULm7fBToTASu by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T15:02:29Z
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#Krita usability issue: Detaching the canvas causes the docker panels to get large, and they don't go back to being small when the canvas is reattached D:If possible, the panel sizes for different detach states should be stored separately, so that their sizes don't get clobbered by detaching the canvas.To be fair, I can't see myself ever using Detach Canvas so I won't count this against Krita xP
(DIR) Post #ALihYkwM6044sfZX7I by Wolthera@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T15:11:34Z
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@eishiya The dockers do store their size internally, but for some reason they don't get restored correctly, and we suspect bugs in qMdiArea. We want to replace it and the dockers with KDAB's solution, problem is just finding the time to make the swap.
(DIR) Post #ALihiw0PoFF25zKBY8 by tusooa@kazv.moe
2022-07-21T15:14:07.139832Z
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@eishiya shortcut ui, it's the power of kde frameworks, KConfigWidget.
(DIR) Post #ALizjA8562Mr4fAVhQ by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T15:15:26Z
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Ooh I can customise the toolbars o: Is it possible to add custom toolbars without scripting? I'd love to make comics and pixel art toolbars with some common brush presets for each, and then just change which toolbar is visible.After a lot of poking around, found File > Open existing Document as Untitled Document..., which is even better than PS's Image > Document since you don't have to open and then close the base document :D I use this a lot for my daily sketches.
(DIR) Post #ALizjAcZGgkobDQrDc by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T15:41:12Z
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Oh no. Zooming with the Zoom tool seems to zoom in by some percentage rather than going in increments of 100% (and 1/2^n for zooming below 100%). Scrolling zooms in stable steps, but has a lot of useless intermediates too.Is it possible to configure the zooming levels somewhere? I can deal with zooming out being weird, but for zooming in, having anything other than increments of 100% is a big slowdown, especially for pixel art.
(DIR) Post #ALizjB0fp42Jnyi6nA by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T15:45:58Z
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In Photoshop, you can double-click the Zoom tool in the toolbar to reset the zoom to 100%, very convenient. In Krita I have to either use the dropdown, or a keyboard shortcut to go back to 100% D: Looks like I can add a button to reset the zoom to a toolbar though :DThe zoom tool icon shows a + even if you're holding Alt to zoom out with it. Made me think I had the wrong modifier xP
(DIR) Post #ALizjBUS2Lr7IKdtCq by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T16:01:58Z
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Speaking of zooming and modifiers: I like to zoom with ctrl+scrollwheel, and scroll vertically with the scrollwheel.I was able to set this up in Krita too. For zooming it was trivial (add Ctrl to existing shortcuts). For scrolling, I had to add new shortcuts. I got them backwards initially, because the terminology is in terms of the "camera", so Pan Down = Scroll Up.The panning is a lot slower than I'd like, though, not very useful. Might just have to MMB pan instead.
(DIR) Post #ALizjBsuZPQCWC5QKe by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T16:11:26Z
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Panning around an image in Krita is so much nicer than in PS CS6. Quick and clean/unblurred just like CS3 and older were :>Just noticed that I can control canvas rotation with the little circle in the status bar, neat! Maybe having rotation so easily available might tempt me to use it more.I can tag brushes o: This should be great, I can make comics, painting, and pixel art tags and never look at my full brush list again xP
(DIR) Post #ALizjCEtFh0DcMMyae by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T16:19:24Z
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Oh, there are even Pixel Art and Paint tags already, neat :3I'm still putting off actually importing my brushes though 🤣This zooming thing has me a bit unhappy too :V Bonus weirdness because above 200%, it starts doubling the zoom every other level, but those intermediate levels are still odd values. 200, 282.8, 400, 565.7, 800, 1131, 1600...I'd much rather see 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 1200, 1600... I spend a lot of my time in the 600-800 range for pixel art.
(DIR) Post #ALizjCZ62ZAKd1p75M by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T16:58:12Z
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Haven't actually drawn anything yet, already writing a #Krita script.Two issues:1. Wow, does even a simple script need an entire plugin file structure? In PS and Tiled, I can just toss my script file in a directory and it works D:2. Is it possible to set the current tool via scripts? In the PS version of this script, I do some work with a selection, deselect, and change the tool to Brush, makes things seamless for me.
(DIR) Post #ALizjCswql2rcb6y1o by Wolthera@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T17:19:03Z
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@eishiya you don't need to change tools to edit the selection, it's just under document.selection() (see https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/selections). Note that there's currently no way to select stuff that isn't a rectangle though.For smaller scripts I use the scripter. Need for plugin structure has to do with code architecture.
(DIR) Post #ALizjDJtEab0y9iU1Q by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T17:21:13Z
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@Wolthera Oh no, I mean I *want* to switch the tool. I'd make my selection with the magic wand, then the script will do work on it, and then I want the script to take care of switching back to Brush for me, so I don't have to xP I've got the actual work all done, it's just switching tools I'd like to add.I need to put this script on hotkey and I'll be using it a *lot*, so I think I need to do the whole thing where I package it as a plugin and give it an .action file so I can hotkey it.
(DIR) Post #ALizjDe61Sl7ypAcW8 by Wolthera@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T17:39:57Z
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@eishiya if literally only switching the tools is what you want, you should just invoke actions. https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/actions there's actions to switch between tools. the action for the magic wand is named "KisToolSelectContiguous" and "KritaShape/KisToolBrush" for the switching to the freehand brush tool.
(DIR) Post #ALizjESR0J1cUwioym by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T17:58:28Z
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The answers are:1. Yes, unfortunately. There also needs to be an .action file that includes your created actions if you want to be able to assign shortcuts to them.2. It is possible by triggering the action associated with the tool you want, but the action names aren't documented in the action dictionary xPTime to actually import some brush tips from PS and see if I can figure out how to make comparable brushes in Krita...
(DIR) Post #ALizjFqvoiDMpDBtnk by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T18:04:10Z
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But first: this? this is good. PS only lets you apply a filter again, but it's great to have a quick way to get back to its dialog too.Krita's Enhance > Unsharp Mask filter also seems to do a comparable job to Photoshop's Sharpen > Smart Sharpen filter for sharpening inks, though it's a little fiddlier (which is why I use Smart Sharpen and not PS's own Unsharp Mask).
(DIR) Post #ALkcByfYm46vLUxGwC by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T19:42:51Z
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Imported my brush tips from my Photoshop ABR file. Took... a long time to find the "Edit brush settings" button in the toolbar, kept looking in menus instead.The settings look comparable. I have to add 180 to the rotation to match PS's, simple enough.Height texture settings are quite different though, took a looot of messing around to get something good. But I got there in the end.Very happy to see a "Overwrite Brush Preset" button :DAlso: I'm guessing this tooltip is not correct xP
(DIR) Post #ALkcBz55FAWkceteim by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-21T20:38:33Z
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Is it possible to customise the #Krita brush cursors beyond what's in the settings? I like the crosshair, but want it a little smaller.I also can't seem to find a setting to disable the color sampler preview swatches.There also seems to be a minor bug where the swatches aren't erased when you switch tools until something else triggers a redraw of that area, and the swatches aren't updated if you swap FG/BG colours while using the color sampler.
(DIR) Post #ALkcBzZDR8d886zigi by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T00:49:16Z
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Krita sorts brushes (and probably other presets?) by name. This means if you want brushes to show up in a certain order, you have to give them weird names. That explains why the default brushes start with a), b), etc.This makes reordering annoying, especially since there's no way to rename them in the Resource Manager. Tolerable, but I hope that eventually some sort of separate ordering is added so that presets can be dragged and dropped to reorder.
(DIR) Post #ALkcBzy1wsTnN4bXMm by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T00:53:35Z
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AND you have to restart Krita for the reordering to take effect. Not fun! You have to get the preset's name perfect the first time you save it if you want to avoid restarts.
(DIR) Post #ALkcC0SW7Wrktcrssy by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T01:16:35Z
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Contiguous and non-contiguous magic wand is two separate tools, Contiguous Selection Tool and Similar Color Selection Tool. Sensible enough, but feels like a waste of toolbox space.Fuzziness has a minimum of 1. I'd expect the minimum setting, which requires exact matches, to be 0.The Fill Tool has no non-contiguous mode, so if you want to replace all instances of a colour, a common task in pixel art, you have to use the Similar Color Selection Tool first, and then Fill. Not great.
(DIR) Post #ALkcC0weJUy8P4xwqu by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T01:47:03Z
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The Line tool requires you to use a brush, for you have to keep a square brush around if you want to draw simple blocky lines.Shape Tools don't work that well with such a brush, necessitating selections + Stroke Selection.Stroke Selection is always centered, there is no option for inside or outside stroke, this makes precision strokes difficult, and sharp corners practically impossible except through the Stroke Layer Style, which does have an Inside option.
(DIR) Post #ALkcC1Nwg0nrljjkOm by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T02:05:13Z
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Would be nice if double-clicking the thumbnail of a layer brought up Layer Styles. Layer > Layer Style and right click > Layer Style is rather slow. Similarly, miss ctrl+click on the thumbnail to Select Opaque (Replace) and shift+ctrl+click to Select Opaque (Add), I need those often.There's no option like PS's Fill that lowers the opacity of the layer's contents but not layer styles. For fill 0%, a white layer on Multiply works just as well, but sometimes other fill levels are useful too.
(DIR) Post #ALkcC1m3EO5MyV0zyK by Wolthera@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T11:43:53Z
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@eishiya uh... the ctrl+click should work...??? https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/selections.html#common-shortcuts-while-using-selections
(DIR) Post #ALkcC3cCNzOQgWQ9tQ by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T02:10:52Z
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It's late, I've spent all day exploring Krita and haven't actually drawn my daily sketch yet :'DUnfortunately my conclusion is that while PS CS6 is death by a thousand annoyances, Krita is death by a thousand UX inefficiencies. There are only a few things I need that it outright can't do, but there are a lot of common (for me) tasks that take too many clicks or require workarounds to accomplish. I can only fit so many shortcuts within reach of my keyboard-hand.
(DIR) Post #ALkcC5LFxx1s2YVelM by eishiya@mastodon.art
2022-07-22T02:37:12Z
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Summary of today's findings:Actual problems: Text tool. Can't hide Color Sampler preview. Zoom tool is weird. No HSV sliders.UX gripes: No quick click-based access to Layer Styles and Select Opaque. Can't set style opacity higher than layer opacity. Can't reorder brushes except by changing name+restarting. Can't Stroke Selection Inside/Outside. Big Undos are slow.Misc: Incorrect tooltip for "Invert Pattern" in brush texture settings. "Select a Color" hue ring changes saturation.