In Krita, practically everything can be assigned personalized shortcuts, which speed up your workflow significantly.įor menu items, if you right click any menu option you can assign or change shortcuts by simply pressing the desired key or button combinations on your keyboard, drawing tablet or mouse, something that is really fast and convenient. This is great for creating fractal patterns. If you click on the drop-down menu arrow next to the button, you can lock them, or recenter them, since they can be moved to mirror your strokes off-center too.Īnother related tool is the Multibrush tool, which allows you to draw with multiple brushes, duplicating your strokes, either mirrored in any angle or translated from an origin point. The Horizontal and Vertical Mirror tools, which are found on the Brushes and Stuff docker, allow you to paint symmetrically, which can cut drawing time in half when working on something technical or preparing a quick sketch for a character. You can enable Mirror View in the View menu, under Canvas. The mirror view simply flips the canvas instantly, so you can analyze your artwork from another perspective without any processing lag whatsoever while you work. Krita has both mirror tools and a mirror view. Mirror View + Mirror Tool + Multibrush Tool If you’d like to see Colorize Masks in action, check out David Revoy’s tutorial: You are not limited to painting one color inside each area, you can paint multiple colors and Krita will calculate the color distribution according to the position and size of your strokes. It might take a few tries to get it right, but it is definitely worth it to get a basic color layer before working on shading or details, or as a final color. The advantage of this coloring method is that you quickly get a base color, and since it is a separate layer, it is non-destructive, meaning you can click on the Edit button again to edit your color strokes and reprocess with the Show/Update button.ĭepending on the complexity of your drawing, you might need to add additional strokes in certain areas to help Krita calculate a better coloring result. Click on the Edit Button to hide the strokesĪdditionally, you can select the Colorize Mask Editing Tool from the Toolbox docker, and you will find additional tweaking options in the Tool Options docker, such as defining certain colors as transparent, removing colors or setting detection limits, to name a few.Click on the Show button to process (or update) the result.Paint color strokes inside each area, as shown in the middle drawing.Select the layer containing your line art.This new feature in Krita 4 is specifically designed to color line art, and can be a real time saver if you are into comic book art, or need to repetitively color any sort of line drawings with precision and quickly.

Since the release of Krita 4 last year, many new features have been added to this increasingly powerful open-source painting software, and several existing features have been improved or are just too useful to miss. A highlight of Krita’s tools and features that you might find helpful to speed up your work and be technically precise.

Krita and 3d coat workflow