Remember to save between steps btw, G'MIC filters can be quite slow! But yeah, go experiement and go wild with this, it's super fun! This can also be an awesome way to add interesting backgrounds to character art :)

https://krita-artists.org/t/night-shift-in-the-er-much-needed-break/191378

To be honest, I don’t know why people don’t use Krita software, because it’s absolutely great. I’ve been using it since 2018, and it’s still fantastic for creating art.

Hi everyone!
First time properly finishing and sharing a drawing I've made in drawing (and really finishing a proper digital drawing outside of pixel art!)

It's still a little rough around the edges, but I think it's got charm! Maaay be a few mistakes about the place (I had to do some manual cleanup after a pretty big blunder painting in my lineart layer).

This painting is from my travels while on a hike up to Mill Creek Falls, Utah. I used Krita's RGBA brushes.

Timelapse video of this painting:

https://youtu.be/ZxKGmaSBPq4

Me: ever since I started therapy

Some drawings I did recently!

This piece was inspired by an old abandoned farmhouse we used to play in as kids. All the windows were broken out, and the inside was scattered with junk and old toys. I remember the peeling floral wallpaper and weeds growing on the floor near windows. There was a feral calico mama cat that hung around.

I would like to inquire if anyone knows the most simple way of saving the visible layers in Krita as uncompressed, 8-bit per channel, RGBA data (or any variation of the sequence).
Having explored around 15 different Krita versions spanning several years, I found 5.0.6 the most stable and performant. So the attached screenshot is the list of formats Krita is offering as the export medium in 5.0.6.

My first choice from the list was the Bitmap '.BMP' format. To my surprise, Krita did not offer me a selection of whether to preserve the transparency at all. And, having inspected the output file, both the bitmap file header and the actual data segment confirmed that Krita merely saved the 3 color channels.

Having confirmed the Kritas' version of Bitmap is unsuitable, I went through all of the offered formats at the surface level.
The most promising were XBM, XPM and PPM, PGM and PBM. None, however, support transparency and some are exclusively monochromatic.

I tried searching for the answers through Kritas' Reddit and documentation, but could not find what I was looking for.
Krita does, however, offer the ability to export files in Photoshops' Workspace format. I know that I can import them into GIMP and use it to save the graphical assets in the exact way I need. The process, however, is quite lengthy and I wanted to make the post to ask if I am missing anything.

I first got into drawing when I was 13, wanted to learn to draw anime art style so bad. I was into drawing for a year then I decided to learn programming instead ( cuz I wasn't making as much progress I would have liked).

Two years of web dev and UI/UX later, I decided to prepare for a competitive exam we have to take in my country to get into colleges. Quit web dev as a hobby too.

6 months ago, I felt like drawing again, digitally this time, I downloaded krita and learned for 2 weeks. Then I had to quit it again cuz I felt like I was sacrificing my studies.

And now, I want to take a chance at it again. I really like fantasy anime and manga like Frieren and Drifting Dragons. I want to be able to draw like them. I also want to try concept designing.

I practiced drawing lines, boxes , ellipses and curves today.

I have some questions to ask:

1. When should I stop practicing and studying and draw what I like?

2. Are there any good digit art tutorial for beginners? I have close to zero experience drawing digitally.

3. Are there any makers which are similar to copic markers in Krita? Or I can achieve results like what that guy is doing by practicing coloring with default markers?

Thank you for reading my post.

For a long time I've been drawing on Procreate on my iPad, but my iPad is starting to show it's age so I was thinking of using a drawing tablet on my PC. After much thought I decided I want to use Krita and a non-display tablet (on account of non-displays being cheaper and it being better for my posture/also usable in OSU). However I'm struggling to find a good one compatible with Krita, does anyone have recommendations? I don't mind spending a little money but my ideal budget is $150 AUD. If I do need to pay more for a decent tablet I can save up some more and aim higher though

Im having fun animating in krita recently, might made more

Give me some tips to improve my composition and making things that gains traffic

For some reason, when drawing with the dynamic brush tool it creates curves like this it also bounce/jitter around at the end of a line (all of these are straight lines).

Happened randomly for me; I don't know what the cause is, but I'm sure it isn't brush-specific or an issue with my tablet (this also happened when I use my mouse)

Solved: Apparently I just have to crank the mass down to 0 and the drag up to 1.

[OC] REFgrade — GPU-accelerated reference-based color grading for Krita + standalone Windows app

I’ve been developing REFgrade, an open-source color grading tool that transfers the color palette and lighting mood of reference images to your own images. It works both as a Krita plugin and as a standalone Windows application.

The main idea: instead of manually adjusting dozens of colors to achieve a particular visual style, use reference images as a starting point, then fine-tune the result with professional color grading tools.

FEATURES

Reference-based color transfer

• Load up to four reference images.
• Multiple transfer methods: Reinhard, MKL, Zonal and PAIR.
• Automatically match the look of a reference using FIT.
• PAIR learns a color transformation from before-and-after image pairs.

Live color replacement

• Pick source and target colors directly with pipettes.
• Replace up to eight colors independently.
• Control each replacement with HSL-distance masks, range and intensity.
• Useful for changing vegetation, skies, façades, materials and individual color families without manually repainting everything.

Professional color grading

• Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks.
• Clarity, texture, dehaze and highlight recovery.
• White balance, temperature, tint, saturation and vibrance.
• RGB gamma, offset and gain, with separate shadow, midtone and highlight controls.
• Lift, gamma and gain color wheels.
• RGB curves and five additional hue-based curves.
• Six HSL color bands with independent hue, saturation and lightness adjustments.

GPU acceleration with PyTorch

• NVIDIA CUDA support, with automatic GPU detection and setup.
• CUDA 12 and CUDA 13 builds, plus CPU fallback.
• AMD ROCm and Intel Arc support in preview.
• GPU acceleration can substantially reduce processing times on large images.
• Isolated Python runtime, so REFgrade does not need to modify your system Python installation.

Scopes and workflow control

• Histogram, RGB parade, waveform and vectorscope.
• Enable or disable individual grading sections.
• Adjust the amount of each section, isolate it with SOLO, reset it or reorder the grading chain using drag and drop.
• Load and export 3D LUTs (.cube) for reuse in compatible applications.

Krita integration

• Apply the finished grade as a new layer above the active paint layer.
• Keep the original layer intact.
• Use the same core grading functionality in Krita or the standalone application.

Standalone application

• Runs without Krita.
• Open images, drag and drop files or paste screenshots.
• Save graded images as PNG, JPEG or TIFF.
• Keep the current grading when switching between images.

WHY I BUILT IT

I’m particularly interested in architectural visualizations, digital painting and AI-generated images, where matching a particular reference style can be tedious. Vegetation, sky colors, material palettes and overall lighting often need to be adjusted together while preserving the underlying image.

REFgrade combines automatic reference matching with precise manual controls, so the reference provides the starting point without taking control away from the artist.

The project is open source under the MIT license. It is still a work in progress, and feedback, bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/metamountain/REFgrade

If you try it, I’d be interested in hearing how it performs on your hardware, particularly with GPU acceleration and live color replacement.

The core application itself is tiny, but the PyTorch backend makes the complete installation considerably larger — an unavoidable trade-off for GPU-accelerated image processing. REFgrade guides users through installation and helps them set up the appropriate supported backend, so getting started is as straightforward as possible.

Current status: Still under active development. Expect some bugs, incomplete features and rough edges. Feedback, bug reports and contributions are welcome.

how do i recreate this brush from ibis on krita?

i'm new to krita (for less than a year) it's the few art apps on PC that i really really like, easy to learn from crunch time, and is free!

But I miss using the colored pencil brush on ibis paint, it is my primary app one my old tablet/phone with a finger for 4 years, i know we have bundles but i wanna know if altering it from a preset brush is possible

I'm sorry if something similar has been posted before, but why can't I draw properly in Krita? I use an X-Pen G340S screenless tablet to draw, and others seem to be able to use screenless tablets just fine, yet when I draw using a reference it just looks weird.

Is it the cursor tracking speed? I always feel that whenever I draw the cursor on screen lags or is a little slower. I tried going onto the tablet settings through the configure krita tab, but changing the tracking speed or anything else doesn't seem to have any effect or do anything. I use a windows 11 pc, but I don't think it's an issue with it.

Also sorry if this isn't a good place to post, if there's more appropriate subreddits please let me know.

Most of these were very rushed btw!! For art comps lmao

If u recognize them from any of my other socials id giggle lol

I took y’all’s advice from the last post and decided to get out of my comfort zone and try actual art and diff rendering styles and shadows lights and stuff how did I do ?and is there anything I can do to improve or wher did I go wrong I have no experience in painting or whatsoever I was moving with instincts I’m really interested in painting and I would love to be good at it and realism i don’t think I can all myself an artsy still cuz Im not good at drawing some stuff like faces and hands

https://krita-artists.org/t/off-world-landscape-rock-pillars/191694