Colors from photo

[Sydney]

Right now their is a method, if you have your reference photo on a layer, you can select the colors of the photos colors. However, when you hide the reference photo, the colors selected, are gone. My question is, is there any way, to adjust the setting, so once you select the colors from your reference layer, it is there whether the ref layer is visible or not?

[Michelist]

Sorry, Sydney, if you had “taken the trouble” to look at the web page I presented to you for creating color palettes and importing the color palettes created there, you wouldn’t have this problem now. I had even described the way how to do it to you. Obviously, your solution does not seem to work as good as you wanted us make to believe. And now here you are again, trying to get the same problem solved again.

The link to the website I mentioned was:
http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php

You could use the website to create extensive palettes for Krita from images that you need as palettes, and then import them into Krita to have them permanently available.

To do this, you just have to press the Browse button behind the text “Choose file:” and use the dialog that opens to select the image you want to have as a palette, your reference image. The search process is identical to the search processes you use to select the reference image in Krita.
After the image is uploaded to the website, click “Get Palette” to create your palette.
Then you have to scroll to the bottom of the image to click on the text “Save as Photoshop swatches (.ACO file)”, this will trigger the download. That’s three clicks on the web page, and selecting the file you need as a palette.

In Krita, you import the file you have just downloaded via the menu →
‘‘Settings’’
→ there you choose
‘‘Manage resources…’’
→ and there you select
‘‘Import Resources’’
and select the palette you just downloaded in the dialog box that opens. Confirm, select the palette in the palette docker in Krita and Done.

There is only one problem on the website that I have found so far:
The website only accepts PNG’s and JPG’s with a maximum size of 1 MB. So sometimes you have to resize an image before uploading.

Michelist

[Sydney]

Hi Michelist, you know I respect you. However I have to object to your opening post… “taken the trouble” I consider it disrespectful. I do not know if u saw it, but I posted that I resolved the problem, by selecting the colors, then using the snipping tool, to select the colors, save it as a jpg, then saving it as a reference file. That takes me all of 5 minutes or less.
I was just ask the question if there was any way to improve on the way it is now.

[Takiro]

Do you add your “palette” image as a layer to the or as a reference image (two difference things). I’m still confused about hiding the reference removes the color, like from where? Does your Brush change color when you hide it or what exactly is happening?

[Michelist]

@Takiro: Thanks for your question! It has just untied a knot in my brain.
It’s about the “Create a list of colors from the image” function in ACS.
The question is probably to be understood as whether the colors determined from the image via this function can be “fixed” there, so that the source of this color determination can be hidden. In its standard setting, this ‘‘palette’’ is updated after every stroke, but as I just became aware again, this is possible to suppress this update-behavior, you just have to remove the checkmark in front of “Update after every stroke”.
So in the dialog window you get in Krita via ‘‘Settings’’ → ‘‘Configure Krita’’ → ‘‘Color Selector Settings’’, in the tab ‘‘Colors from Image’’ you have to uncheck ‘‘Update after every stroke’’.
In case the tabs are not there, you have to select ‘‘Advanced Color Selector’’ in the top line of this dialog window, you find this setting behind → ‘‘Docker:’’. This is set to ‘‘Color Hotkeys’’ when there are no tabs.

This way you can preserve your temporary “palette”, in my opinion the advantage of a real one is still not outweighed by this, but man’s will be his kingdom.

Michelist

Add: I’m sorry, it’s a little confused, I’m not feeling well right now, and I had to take strong medication that makes everything turn around in my head. Have a good night.

[Sydney]

Hi Mixhelist. I am sorry u r not feeling well. Hope you get well quick. I asked the question about keeping the colors of the reference photo, on through out the painting. I was referring using the Advanced color selector. In the bottom left, there is a half circles icon. When you reference photo, on a layer is visible, clicking on that icon, shows the colors, in a bar below the Advanced color selector. There are setting in the ACS…to how many colors you want from the photo. That in itself is good. However, when/if you hide the reference layer, the colors in the Advance color selector that was created, disappears. If you unhide the reference photo layer, the colors reappear. My original question was is there any way, that once you establish the colors from the reference layer, it remain permanent throughout the painting, regardless of the reference is hidden or not. Hope this clarifies, my original post on the subject. Take care of yourself, that should be your primary concern. Take care.

[Sydney]

Takiro As a reference file, this is how I do it. Once I get the colors selected using the Advance color selector, I use a snipping tool, from my desktop, to make a selection around the colors, then save and name it. Upload it as reference file. The whole process take less than 5 minutes, it is clean with no trouble. If you want I can post a photo of how the setup looks on Krita.

[Takiro]

So you basically make a screenshot of the pallete and add this as a reference image. The only solution I can think of is moving that image to the side where it doesn’t annoy you that much, somewhere outside the canvas, and pick the colors directly from the reference image with the quick color sampler (ctrl + left click).

[Michelist]

Giggle, as I wrote yesterday, I was too confused to describe what you were asking for. Morphine is both a curse and a blessing, and yesterday I unfortunately needed a lot of the devil’s stuff.
You can do what you want, and preserve these temporarily palette colors, or do your colors really disappear at the moment you hide your reference?
That would be a bug in Krita and needed a bug-report from you, because usually they should stay til you make your next stroke, and then they will be updated. But that update is suppressible as I wrote, here is a simpler description via a screenshot:

1. In the upper left corner of the advanced color selector, click on the button I circled in the screenshot to get the dialog window on the right. 2. There, select the tab “Colors from Image” and 3. then remove the checkmark in front of “Update after every stroke”, this preserves your “palette” til the next click on the button to create it.

Michelist

[Sydney]

Takiro…I do both, I take a screenshot, of palette of the ref image, and from time to time I will pick the color from the ref image I have as a separate ref image. That works fine for me, unless someone can show me how to keep the color palette, on regardless of what is happening with the layers.

[Sydney]

Michelist…problem solved, thanks. Take care.