I’m trying to replace the colour of the selected lines here but it won’t let me even though I’m on the right layer.
I’d paint over the selection in a new colour. Is that what you tried?
What do you do? What happens?
Please provide details.
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Had to make a really short video otherwise the file was too big, but as you can maybe figure out is that the red colour doesn’t colour over the line I want to replace and also the red colour is weaker than what I set it to. Not talking about the red that you can very clearly see that is outside of the line btw, I’m talking about the red that’s barely visible in the video when I draw it. Idk if I’m that good at explaining.
The ‘Selection Mask’ thumbnail does not show any visible selection in the screenshot.
This may be because the selection is thin and the thumbnail is small.
Also, if you used Select Opaque on the artwork layer, if the artwork has low opacity then the selection will have low opacity so any painting will be subjected to that opacity reduction.
If you select the Selection layer, you’ll see its mask so you can tell if it has low opacity/strength. Also, you can Isolate it for clarity.
So, what is the opacity of the paint on the artwork layer that was used for the Select Opaque action?
You can boost the opacity/strength of the Selection Mask by selecting it then using Filter → Levels and bring the white point down to make greys white (assuming that is what the problem actually is).
The active artwork layer seems to be low down in the layer stack (and not shown in the screenshot video) so it may be being affected by layers above it.
If you do right-click → Isolate Active Layer on the artwork layer, you’ll get a clear view of it and be able to see it in isolation from any effect caused by layers above it in the Layers Docker.
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This is probably a really good explanation but I don’t understand exactly what you’re talking about and that’s probably because I’m not an expert at Krita yet. I just feel so overwhelmed when it comes to everything and part of me wants to quit art cause I feel like I’m always gonna suck and that there’s always gonna be problems and I feel so stressed because I don’t want it to take like 7 years or something for me to get good at art. Either way, thank you so much for helping me!
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Your finished artwork has a fairly simple appearance and is a ‘constructed’ image with many layers for different parts. You are also using a very ‘technical’ method to make changes to your artwork components.
To understand any problems you may have when using this technique, you need to have a good technical knowledge of how things work.
e.g. The ‘Select Opaque’ action giving a Selection Mask that can have selected area that are ‘less that fully selected’.
e.g. Isolating a layer so that you can be sure you are seeing it with no other layer effects on it.
There are a large number of small items of knowledge and skill that can only come from study and practice of those small items, individually.
Make a new image, paint on it with several strokes of different opacities.
Do Select Opaque on that layer. Try painting on the selection with a different colour at 100% opacity. Notice what happens?
Select the Global Selection mask and isolate it. See why that happened?
That is how you learn about each of the individual small things. There are many of them to be learned by trying them, one at a time, then experimenting with them.
That is just the ‘technical’ side of course.
I wish you well and I hope you learn but it does take time and practice and patience and experimentation.
I’ve been using krita for five years and I’m still finding things out about how it works.
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Also, because of my asbergers it makes it difficult to draw I think. But I also have ADD or ADHD, the doctors say I have ADD but idk.
Have you tried ‘painting’ artworks by just using one brush and adjusting the size and using different colours on only one layer?
The good thing about digital art is that you can paint over and/or erase very easily.
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As always, I am slower than @AhabGreybeard, but I’ll post it anyway. And that is no issue for me. Read my posting and try to get the essence of it. The world doesn’t break apart only because things need time to develop!
Art is usually an occupation that, in order to achieve consistently decent results there, cannot do without extensive practice. With digital painting, you at least have the advantage of using the undo function to revise things you don’t like.
And now you seem to have set yourself the task of learning two things at once, both art itself, in the form of painting, and in addition the handling of the quite extensive software Krita, not to say the demanding software Krita. So it is normal that not everything will immediately meet your expectations, and also that you will only make progress through continued practice. Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, da Vinci and the like did not fall from the sky as masters, they had to develop their skills and then, with their often hard-earned abilities, create the works for which they are admired by the world today.
You are, cheekily guessed, with large probability still a young person, and have with the today’s life expectancy, provided that nothing unexpectedly bad happens to you, probably clearly more time your abilities to develop and later to use, than the before mentioned! Why do you want to be able to do everything from now on, for which the excellent artists, of all times, from the antiquity until today, usually needed years?
Yes, there are naturals who achieve very fast, very good results, but that is not the norm, probably over 98% of those who are serious artists do not belong to these naturals (is equally cheeky estimate).
By the way, this applies to pretty much all areas of life, even a profession you do not learn in three weeks, in my home country the usual vocational training takes 3 years, now often longer.
That’s just the way life is, but this is not a catastrophe, it’s normal. That’s why you don’t throw in the towel, later you have so much more reason and right to be happy about your own successful works than those “for whom it’s child’s play”! Have you ever looked at it from the side?
But if you manage to pick yourself up, and learn things calmly and with patience (and frequent use of Ctrl+Z), then later you will have a hobby that can give you infinite fulfillment.
And if something doesn’t go your way, take a break, go for a walk for a few minutes, or do something else that relaxes you! And then, sit down and go on.
Michelist
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People have already said that a thousand times though, that you need to practice and after a few years you’ll be good, but the problem is that it feels like I’m stuck at the stage I’m at right now and will never be any better. Before it at least felt like I was getting better and better. Still, thank you so much!
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