I’ve been using M key to flip my canvas view alot to check on symmetry.
Its kinda been a problem when flipping on a zoomed out canvas - when you press M the place your working get thrown off the other side - since its flipping on the center point of the canvas window.
Is there a way to set this up so it will instead flip / use where your cursor is/ the cursor as the center point.
currently it gets annoying when working on a specific area [left or right most] then flippin and getting thrown of the other side of the screen/ needing to recenter everything again.
Thank you. Its not really the mirror /symmetry tool im looking for but the Canvas Horizontal Flip [M] that gets activated when you press M key.
It does not change anything in the canvas/ layers etc but just flip the entire thing. Now when you flip [press M] it flip the canvas on center point of the canvas window. Its fine when your drawing on the center of the screen - but when tinkering on something on the corners / you draw off center and flips - those on the right get thrown to left side of screen.
I just want to know if there is any setting i can set / check that will flip on the cursor, like how it can rotate with the cursor as center point. maybe there’s something i missed with setups.
I was kind of hoping it would mirror around the set markers, too bad actually. Also, the mirror fix plugin wouldn’t be helpful, I think, but check it out - maybe that will help a bit… but in case of mirrors / mirroring, there should be more options in Krita…
Here, with this tool, I’m really unsure because of Translation.
If you select a region, you can use the transform tool to flip its contents horozontally or vertically about the centre of the local content bounding box.
The user is asking about the canvas mirror function (m key) that only mirrors the view, not any tool to actually edits the content. I too have noticed that the view doesn’t get aligned to the previous cursor position but I never really bothered. I understand that it’s annoying, though.
I think that happens because widgets use a point and then width and height to set up things so you mirror the point and the the width goes as a side effect after and there is goes off center of what you expect.
it does get annoying. I gotten myself a large screen to draw on and started using layout where everything i need is only left, and i put pureref on the right. making me draw off center. So whenever I hit that M key, whatever im drawing on goes under the pure ref window because of the flip. Its starting to drive me nuts.
Well the drawing is placed on the extreme left of the canvas, so it is understandable that it goes on the extreme right when flipped. Do you need to flip only part of the canvas? Krita flips the whole canvas. If you are not going to use the empty space I would suggest you reduce the width of your canvas
For this picture I suggest you put that reference in the middle and enlarge the canvas so it fills the “grey” space. Then flip “around” the reference… But it is no nice situation.
Or a two monitor-setup - that is how I work.
@kaichi1342
Use krita’s reference feature. it is better than pure ref and it does not suffer of that issue.
The M key is using the whole canvas if you want it to flip in place you got to flip it while it is in the middle of your canvas, that is just how it works. And considering what I have been seen up until now I don’t know if that will ever change.
I understand your use is valid. But that is how flip canvas works it flips the entire canvas and not just the portion.
There is mirror layer options, you can set up shortcut for it. so that it will only mirror the currently active layer but that would disregard any other layer and also it will be like transforming layer not just temporary view
i did try to switch to it. the reference tool that pins images / my main issue with it is when i zoom in it also zooms or when i pan out -it also pans. I just want the reference to stay put in one area / no matter what i do with my canvas- so pure ref does that for me. before pureref - i use the ref docker.
Yeah, I thought that maybe i missed some setting that can make it do by cursor.
I guess - i just need to bear with it.
ive been using krita for long time - just this switch to a left only tool layout that made this issue alot worse than i remember.
Or you can also place pureref somewhere else. Or there is a better reference image plugin for you which makes the reference image into a docker. GitHub - antoine-roux/krita-plugin-reference: A temporary Reference Docker for Krita 4.0.0
This will make it work like the reference image docker Krita used to have in older version. it will not overlap or hinder the canvas.
I did something similar for Pigment.o, if it is just one image it can still work I guess.
I was taking a look at BeeRef and it seems it will have the same issue as PureRef or Kuadro. What I did when I was at the studio was to put all my refs on my second monitor. with one monitor you have to manage it regardless.
Another alternative is too use another window. I feel that would be one of the best choices for you, I think there was a plugin to manage them even better to do that sort of thing.
maybe there’s something i missed with setups.
