Importing of packs and brushes can be done via the Settings ‣ Manage Resources…, where you can import. You can configure the brushes in a lot of detail, and share the packs with others. Then, as a final touch, set spacing to ‘auto’ and the spacing number to 0.8. Then, go into brush-tip, pick Auto Brush from the tabs, and set the size to 25 (right-click a blue bar if you want to input numbers), turn on anti-aliasing under the brush icon, and set fade to 0.9.

The ones you are used to from Paint Tool SAI are the Pixel Brush (ink), The Color Smudge Brush (brush) and the filter brush (dodge, burn).Ī simple inking brush recipe for example is to take a pixel brush, uncheck the Enable Pen Settings on opacity and flow, and uncheck everything but size from the option list. We have more than a dozen brush engines, which are a type of brush you can make. As you can see, it’s actually quite complex. The easiest way to access this is with the F5 key. It’s rather that we don’t have our brush settings in a docker but a drop-down on the toolbar. After all, you can only change the Size, Flow and Opacity from the top bar. Brush Settings ¶Īnother, somewhat amusing misconception is that Krita’s brush engine is not very complex. Like SAI, you can quickly turn a black and white image to black and transparent with the Filter: Color to Alpha dialog under Filters ‣ Colors ‣ Color to Alpha… menu item. If you export a PNG or JPG, make sure to uncheck Store alpha channel (transparency) and to make the background color white (it’s black by default). You can turn it back to transparent via Image ‣ Image Background Color and Transparency… menu item. Just choose Background: As Canvas Color in the new image dialogue and the image background will be white. Still, if you want to have the canvas background to be white, this is possible. So one of the things that throw a lot of Paint Tool SAI users off is that Krita uses checkers to display transparency, which is actually not that uncommon. Just turn off Delay so that the dead-zone disappears. Use Basic Smoothing for more advanced tablets, and Stabilizer is much like Paint Tool SAI’s. This is in the tool options docker of the freehand brush. Combine these with the shortcut sheet for Paint Tool SAI to get most of the functionality on familiar hotkeys. Krita 3.0 actually has a Paint Tool SAI-compatible input sheet shipped by default. Hide Selection, Reset Rotation are currently not available via the Toolbar configuration, you’ll need to use the shortcuts Ctrl + H and 5 to toggle these. (Though, on smaller screens this will cause all the things in the Brushes and Stuff Toolbar to hide inside a drop-down to the right, so you need to experiment a little). You can do the same for Redo, Deselect, Invert Selection, Zoom out, Zoom in, Reset zoom, Rotate left, Rotate right, Mirror view and perhaps Smoothing: basic and Smoothing: stabilizer to get nearly all the functionality of SAI’s top bar in Krita’s top bar. When done right, the Undo should now be sandwiched between the save and the gradient icon. There, toggle Hide text when toolbar shows action alongside icon to prevent the action from showing the text. Select the action to the right, and click Change text. Then select the action ‘undo freehand stroke’ and drag it to the right. Then, you can type in something in the left column to search for it. There are two toolbars, but we’ll add to the Main Toolbar. Go to Settings ‣ Configure Toolbars… menu item. You can also put these commands on the toolbar, so it’ll feel a little like SAI. You can use the Overview docker in Settings ‣ Dockers to quickly navigate over your image. Use the 1, 2 or 3 keys to reset the zoom, fit the zoom to page or fit the zoom to page width. You can use the + and - keys to zoom out and in, or use the Ctrl + shortcut. But you can also have more sophisticated rotation with the Shift + Space + drag or Shift + + drag shortcuts. There’s a couple of possibilities here: either the 4 and 6 keys, or the Ctrl + shortcuts for basic 15 degrees rotation left and right.

Unlike SAI, these are tied to keyboard keys. Krita, just like SAI, allows you to flip, rotate and duplicate the view. This section goes over the functionalities that Krita and Paint Tool SAI share, but shows how they slightly differ. Introduction to Krita coming from Paint Tool SAI ¶ How do you do that in Krita? ¶

Paint tool sai free brushes download