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Hey, how are you?

My name is Heverton.
I’ve been a Krita user since the very beginning of my career in digital art.

For me, among all the software I’ve tested and used, Krita is the most complete and the one that best fits my workflow and comfort. HOWEVER… I’d like to suggest some improvements so that it can become even better, not only for me but for everyone.

First point: Krita REALLY needs more attention toward comic production.
Because even though there are native ways to produce comics, they are not as intuitive or complete as in other programs such as Clip Studio, Ibis Paint, or Fire Alpaca, for example.

Here are some specific points I want to highlight for improvement:

1. A tool or plug-in for comic/manga page grids.
Although the vector tool can already be used for this purpose, it’s not as intuitive, practical, or fast as in the programs I mentioned earlier, where creating grids is a dedicated feature focused only on that.

Complementing this: artists who create pages with borders, gutters, and bleed marks for print and binding need to know exactly where the cutting lines will be. It would be very useful if Krita had a filter or feature to addthese markings, ideally with a dedicated settings window for editing them.

2. A dedicated tool for drawing impact lines.
Once again, even though the current native tools can already achieve this effect, having a tool made specifically for impact lines would save a lot of time and effort.

3. (And in my opinion, the most important suggestion)
Create a plug-in or tool to export multiple images in sequence within the same project.
That way, the user can create all the comic pages in a single project, and instead of wasting time exporting page by page as separate images, they could export the entire work either as a single PDF file or as multiple sequential images.

As a bonus, if possible, a print preview feature for pages would also be great.

Extra suggestion:
It would also be nice to have pre-formatted project templates for comics made in Webtoon and Webcomic formats. Combined with the other suggestions above, this would show that Krita can truly be an alternative for all forms of professional comic production.

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Hi @Heverton

Welcome to the forum!

Thank you very much for sharing this English-version post. We don’t have translation software for the forum so English is the common communications language we use here. I deleted the other post which was a duplicate to this one but not in English.

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For 1 there will be the New tool for Comic Panels ("Knife Tool") - asking for feedback (already available in the pre-alpha build, I believe)

For 3 there is the Comic Manager docker.

I’m not sure why 2 needs a tool or how it should work, perhaps you can elaborate?

The idea of having premade project templates is a good idea but there are gazillion of ways of how to set them up since every artist seems to have their own preferred way of doing it (especially for webcomics). Which templates should be included? Everyone can make and share their own, you will even find some in Resources here on the forum if you look for it. This really needs to be narrowed down to a few common ones, first.