A ms paint like curve tool (Bezier curve tool alternative)

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**let me just preface this by saying I have watched some tutorials on the bezier tool and I have gotten its use close, but it feels like I’m doing more work to get to the same outcome. all my time making on krita the bezier tool has always felt unintuitive to me. the curve tool on ms paint to me in my experience was quick to pick up and let me place mostly good curves quickly.

the bezier tool seems to be focused on being truly accurate, vector focused; i tend to be quick and dirty in my workflow, and the bezier tool has never just felt right. sorry i know that’s not the most helpful way to put it. right now i spam down a few curves/lines with the freehand path tool till i get one that looks right, it can take a few tries with the freehand path tool can be a bit chaotic.

the ms paint curve tool feels like a happy medium to those two tools to me, and might me easier for some people like myself to pickup.

the existing assist tool spline works exactly like what i want, but that is a layout for the assist, needing me to still follow the line with snap slowing it all down. in ms paint with the curve tool, click and drag from start point to end point, next click and drag sets the curve of the start point, the third click and drag makes the curve for the end point and blends it all into your curve, and any clicks after that will finalize. its simple enough to start up ms paint and try it yourself of course.**

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I recently made a plugin for exactly this, take a look if you’re interested

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As a workaround, you can make a vector shape, select it and then from the menu do
Edit -> Stroke selected shapes
When you do that, a new paint layer is created and the currently selected brush preset is used to paint a stroke from the start of the selected vector objects, more than one selected shape if you like, to the end of them one at a time, with all the stroke painting characteristics of that brush preset:

Stroke Vector Shapes
Stroke Vector Shapes1146×749 345 KB

I’ve moved the vector layer to the top of the docker so the vector shapes can be clearly seen.
You can use the Bezier Curve Tool to make the vector lines if you like or use the Edit Shapes Tool to make ‘Krazy Kurves’ from a simple vector polyline.

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