Some thoughts, specifically in regards to a “How do you do that in Krita?” equivalent for CSP. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, this is partially based on my own experience switching (which was a long time ago) and partially based on just what I’ve seen pop up on Twitter.
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Stabilization: Krita has stabilizers under the tool settings for brushes, and they’re pretty well documented already, but I regularly see people who don’t realize that this tool exists – I’ve seen a few CSP users on Twitter ask for stabilizers directly by name without realizing they existed already. Maybe expanding out the docs a bit with a screenshot would be helpful, but even just mentioning “we have a stabilizer” in a dedicated CSP section would probably help some people with the transition.
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Some vector layer stuff: some of what I talked about above can be imitated by making use of spline assistants. It’s not perfect, but it is pretty helpful. See the vari-line-assistant thread from just a month or two ago, specifically @AhabGreybeard’s suggestion here on chaining together multiple splines. That’s a suggestion that works today in mainline Krita; it’s not a perfect equivalent of CSP’s vector layers but it will make long strokes easier to draw. Krita has a “Painting with Assistants” section, but it only very briefly covers splines and doesn’t really make it obvious that they can be used not just as a perspective or a curve tool, but as a way to stabilize individual strokes in a drawing. So it might be helpful to expand that section out a tiny bit, and I think it would also be helpful to link to that section in a CSP “How do I do that in Krita” page. I suspect for a lot of people coming over from CSP, using assistants in that way won’t be obvious, it certainly took me a long time to even open that section of the docs, because I assumed for a long time that assistants were just a perspective tool or grid tool.
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Along those same lines, would be good to call attention to both View->Show Painting Assistants, and View->Show Assistant Previews. Also maybe overkill, but drawing attention to the fact that restricting snapping to a single spline at a time is a toggleable option.
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I don’t have as much experience here to know what questions a CSP user would have, but Krita already has a number of ways to recolor lines. I typically use masks, but I don’t know if that’s the “preferred” way, and I’m not sure if there’s another way that would be more natural to a longtime CSP user.
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There are a ton of great tutorials online about colorizing already, but… same deal as with stabilizers, I wonder how many people switching over to Krita know that the feature exists. I also don’t know how this compares to CSP or what options CSP offers in that area. Maybe Krita has an edge there? CSP’s manual describes an experimental coloration feature that’s driven by some kind of AI, if I’m understanding that manual correctly then Krita’s frankly seems to be a lot more straightforward and predictable. But again, I’ve never used it, I’ve only ever done coloration in Krita.
A lot of this stuff is documented but there’s not a page in the Krita manual that says, “hey, if you’re coming from CSP, check these other sections of the manual out.”