I’ve been using Krita for a couple of months now for illustrations and comics, and I was wondering if it can have a comic panel making function. I know it has comic templates, but I find it hard to use when trying to compose the panel layout freely. When making comics, I usually use the comic guide line feature (which is very useful) when measuring the bleed areas and use an inking brush to trace the panel layout I made during the sketch process, but that is sometimes time consuming as I attempt to make the panels as neat as possible.
I personally think it would be really cool if there’s a comic panel making feature similar to MediBang Pro or Clip Studio Paint so that it could become easier and faster to make comic panels.
Also, if you haven’t already, for making neat panels the assistant tools are incredibly helpful. Set up two infinite rulers, one vertical and one horizontal, and quickly ink your panels.
I haven’t even thought of doing that, but that’s a creative way to use assistants!
Also, if you create your panels as vectors, you can make it into a duplicate layer and use it as a transparency mask – so that way you don’t draw into the margins/breaks. This is how the current comic templates work, I believe.
Though, if you already have neat raster panels from using this assistant trick, it wouldn’t be that hard to select all panels and then inverse selection and remove any excess.
The Comic Page Generator is very flexible but the output is more complicated than it needs to be. You can modify the vector boxes to customise it as I show in the attached image: (but not with much skill):
However, the clever use of clone layers makes the canvas update a bit slow and frustrating.
You can actually delete the clone layers since it works fine with a multilayer frame image as a group above the vector box layer, using alpha inheritance and Multiply blending mode on the image group layer.
You can also use alpha inheritance on all the image group layers except the lowest one and that works fine within the image group.
