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Krita tutorials: Learn the basics of the digital art software


By Sara Tepes (ImagineFX) 30 January 2020

These Krita tutorials will help you get started with the free painting program.

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Krita tutorial: Find your way around
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Krita tutorial: Tidy your sketches

Welcome to our Krita tutorials. Krita is one of the best free painting programs available and
includes a great variety of tools and features. While Photoshop has features that can be
useful from painting to photo retouching to photo manipulation, too many options create a
tough learning curve for a digital painter.

Krita keeps its interface painter friendly with a clean style and minimal distractions. Tools are
accessibly placed, and most of the window is dedicated to the canvas. Since Krita has such a
gentle learning curve, it's easy – and important – to familiarise yourself with its features
before diving into the painting process. So we've put together a series of tips to get your
started. It's de nitely worth it as the program is so good it made it into our pick of the best
software for digital artists.

Stick with this page for a tutorial on nding your way around the interface, or skip to page two
for a step-by-step guide on how to tidy your sketches using Krita.

If you want to improve your drawing skills, head over to our post on how to draw – a roundup
of the best drawing tutorials out there.

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01. Create a new document
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(Image: © Sara Tepes)

Open up a new document by going to File>New. To control the size of the canvas, you
can select from one of the templates in the Prede ned drop-down menu, or either
change the dimensions yourself. Choose either pixels or inches for your dimensions and
set the canvas size to the ratio you want. I prefer a larger le size, no smaller than
3,000px on the shortest size but no larger than 7,000px on the longest. Finally, set your
Resolution either to 300 or 600; the higher resolution, the greater quality for the nal
image.

02. Become familiar with the left Toolbar


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(Image: © Sara Tepes)

On the left-hand side is the Toolbar. I'll be pointing out some of the tools you're likely to
use the most. The Freehand Brush tool is what you're going to be doing all your painting
and drawing with. Underneath that, the Transform tool is a handy feature for selecting
and changing the size or shape of a section. The Gradient tool and Fill tool are useful for
lling in large sections with colour, and the Color Selector tool is necessary for blending
when painting. The Outline Selection tool make selecting a speci c part of your piece
easy, and is often used in conjunction with the Transform tool.

03. Get to know the right Toolbar


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(Image: © Sara Tepes)

On the right-hand toolbar is the Advanced Color Selector, Layers panel, and Brush
Presets. Using a colour wheel makes shifting hues easy, as well as useful for setting up
complementary tones. The Layers panel enables you to create either new paint, mask,
or lter layers, giving you full control of your canvas. Lastly, the Brush Presets makes it
possible to quickly look through and select brushes. You can lter by types of brushes,
or select your favourites for quick access.

04. Access the Brush toolbar


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By selecting the Freehand Brush tool and clicking the Edit Brush Settings button on the
top toolbar, you'll see a large variety of customisation options for your selected brush.
The two features that you'll mostly be using will be the Opacity and Size lters. Make
sure that Pressure is selected for either of them, depending on what kind of brush
you're using, so that Krita syncs up to your tablet properly.

05. Save your image

(Image: © Sara Tepes)

When you're ready to save your canvas, go to File>Export and select your preferred le
type. I usually stick to JPEG format unless I'm exporting a le with transparency, in which
case I'll use a PNG le and make sure I have an alpha channel selected.

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