Hi, I really need some help here. I just started using Krita today and I don’t have any experience with these kinds of programs. I want to draw pixel art for my game project so I just followed some tutorials on Youtube and I drew a zombie looking creature.
My first problem I noticed was that what I think is the Dockers windows on the right side of the screen, the different parts of the zombie I’m drawing is in different layers (head, arms, legs) and it looks very small on the thumbnail and when I move my mouse over it, it seems like my whole picture is located on a very small portion of a huge grey canvas (I’m not sure if this is called the workplace)
What confuses me is that the arms is located on a different location than the legs on that huge grey canvas even tough on the white canvas is on the right place, sadly I can’t upload another picture to show you because it’s only allowing me to upload one picture. So when I save my image on png format, the zombie looks VERY small. What can I do to save my picture so I can see it bigger? Moreover, I’m getting this error when saving my picture on png format: “saving as PNG image will lose information from your image”.
Also, when I use the outline selection tool and move the legs, it doesn’t stay sharp, it losses its colors, but when I use the rectangular selection tool it does work properly because it seems that for this one the anti-aliasing option is on. How can I turn on the anti-aliasing for the outline tool? I can’t find it on tool options.
I’m not sure if there is much you can do about it. You can try to get the crop tool, on the left, Select Applies to: Layers in its tool options, and crop the content of the layer. Maybe there is something out the canvas. But it can also be just the way krita stores data on the layer which is usually used with bigger pictures than pixel art. Maybe even a minor bug then.
I would use proper layer naming, hide/unhide layer to check its content and r+click on the canvas to select layer wict clicked content. I don’t really use that gray layer preview…
That is the point of pixel art, right ? You can upscale it with Image > Scale image to new size with filter: Nearest Neighbor. This filter uses no calculations on pixels, so you can write something like 42*10, and get it 10 times bigges for example. Though I don’t know if it’s still pixel art then…
You haven’t saved your artwork (Not saved *) on the title. File > Save As, and save it to .kra file as soon as possible. .png is a final form, but if you don’t save it as krita document, you’ll lose all the layers information, and end up with a merged image!
Maybe you perform some transformations with the transform tool (selection itself does nothing to image, it’s just selecting). In transform tool options you would have to pick nearest naighbor once again then.
All the selection tools, except for Similar Colour Selection, have an Anti-aliasing option tick-box in the Tool Options docker. You’d need this to be unticked to get sharp/clean selection edges.
Thank you wojtryb! I was confused with the whole small images on the big grey canvas because for some reason I thought that was why my drawing was looking so small when saving it, but then I realized I was drawing in 42x42 px.
Yes, the anti-aliasing option suppose to be there when I select the selection tool options, but is not there. I tried re-installing Krita and still is not there. Do you think it might be a bug? Or the checkbox is in another place? I saw the Krita manual and it says it suppose to be there.
It’s supposed to be there so that’s a strange bug.
Which version of krita are you using and where did you get it from?
(Reinstalling the same package won’t make any difference.)
If you select the Crop Tool, do you have Centre and Grow tick-boxes and do they work when you click them?
If you didn’t get it from here: Krita Desktop | Krita
then I suggest that you try that. Click ‘All Download Versions’ and try the Windows Portable 64-bit package. Just unzip it and run the krita.lnk inside it. This will not affect your current installation.
Do you say that because the Rectangular Selection tool has an Anti-aliasing box in the Tool Options docker which is set to be on, or are you making an assumption based on what you see happening?
The Anti-Aliasing check box only shows up when you set the Selection-Mode to Pixel but yours is set to Vector (this seems to be the default).
In the Tool Options Docker where it says Mode click on the fist icon to activate pixel selection mode. When you hover the mouse over the icons, a tool tip appears, telling you what it does, if you’re not sure.
? You can upscale it with Image > Scale image to new size with filter: Nearest Neighbor. This filter uses no calculations on pixels, so you can write something like 42*10, and get it 10 times bigges for example. Though I don’t know if it’s still pixel art then…
