Hello! I was wondering if Krita has thought about implementing a pencil capture feature? I currently am taking pictures with Windows Camera, saving to a folder, then importing. The problem is that Camera doesn’t number the frames well so I have to spend some time reorganizing after importing. I can troubleshoot this system but I’ve always loved the idea of Krita having this feature as well.
There are other open source programs that do have this feature (OpenToonz comes to mind)
but as a teacher primarily using Krita in my class, I would love to have an all-in-one system.
Personally, as an animator who occasionally works in paper, I also would love this!
Are there any other animators out there who would benefit from this? I know it’s an older way of animating, but it makes for a broader experience and I find that teaching animation on paper first allows students to break into the knowledge better…..witjhout also having to learn a lot of technical program stuff alongside.**
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It would be useful if you could explain what Windows Camera does and show an example of the problems caused by Camera “not numbering the frames well”.
Then the result of trying to import into krita.
So, when you take a picture with Windows Camera it automatically saves to the Pictures folder and gives it a name based on what time you snapped the picture (ex: WIN_20250919_13_00_08_Pro). I think it’s probably based on the second count and references your computer’s time.
Unfortunately, this means the pictures don’t show up as a sequence (Picture 1, picture2, etc) so when you import to Krita, they may be out of order - probably because Krita is ordering based on the last numbers only so it will see 08 and put it after 07…..even if the pictures were taken several seconds apart.
I work around this by numbering my drawings on paper so I can then rearrange them once they are in krita. But this is a bit tedious with longer animations.
A lot of capture software allows you to snap a picture from the software itself, and then it numbers the drawings in order of capture. Plus, having it available natively is always nice.
Pictures can be scanned in or you can use a camera for quick capture (in animation these are often called pencil tests).
Camera pictures are usually created with increasing index number naming, in my experience.
But you have a sequence of pictures with date/time-created naming.
So you need krita to import in date/time ordering, as an option.
Another possibility is a small utility which would take a folder full of pictures with date/time order naming and rename them to be increasing index number ordering.
It might be possible to create a krita plugin to do that. Or one of the existing bulk file renaming utilities may already have that function.