Hi everyone,I am new here so my sincere apologies if I’m posting in a wrong place/topic/thread - please let me know and I’ll delete it please don’t start tossing tomatoes at me
In Krita: I outlined an image of a flower on a separate layer, how to convert it into a simple vector? Layers: 1. Image of the flower, 2. white background (to see the outlines after all) 3. The outlines of the flower.
I found this explanation here by @ Grum999 (thank you Grum999, the link Vector from Pixel - #4 by Grum999) but, unfortunately, I find it incomplete or I’m just slow :)… what should I do after step #4 to finish the process?
" If your drawing is just a black and white drawing, you can:
Select your layer, do Select opaque
In menu Select > Convert to vector selection
Create a vector layer
In menu Select > Convert to shape ."
Thank you in advance and have a good one everyone!
You import your flowers, then you can create a painting layer by clicking on the plus symbol at the bottom left of the layer docker, then drag this painting layer to the bottom of the layer stack and color it with the color bucket in a color that is neither black nor white, then select your layer with the flowers so that this layer is the only one marked in color, then open the “Select” menu, in the menu, select “Select opaque” → “Select opaque Add”, again in the “Select” menu, select “Convert to vector selection”, then click on the small downward-pointing triangle next to the + sign to create a painting layer and select “Add Vector Layer” from the drop-down menu that opens, then back in the “Select” menu, select “Convert to shape”. Now you have vectorized your flowers, you can hide them by clicking on the eye symbol at the beginning of the flower layer and now you can see your vector points. To manipulate them, click on the “Edit Shapes Tool”, for example.
Michelist hello! Thank you so much for this very detailed explanation! And I must apologise for not expressing myself correctly in my initial post and gave you much work to bring it all in such detail but I understand how to go through those 4 steps from Grum666’s explanation - I am familiar with gimp (but not in terms of vector making). What I didn’t realize was that after completing the step #4 the vector has been created
I am learning Inkscape literally right now, the vector creation process is easier there but the outlining/drawing part is soooo unfamiliar to me…
Now… How do I save my creation as a vector in Krita)? I can’t find .svg option…
The “only” issue with the method we described here is the huge amount of vector-point it creates, you have to reduce the amount of nodes afterward. It is probably better to select / cut out an object via careful placing the nodes around your object via a polyline and to use that.
Thank you so much for Your help Michelist! The last question here - I promise How to save all the work in process without flattening the whole thing? I checked File - Save as/Export/Export advance and there’s no .kra option… I googled it and there should be .kra… Thank you!
By the way, it is usual manner in this forum to create for every question a new topic.
This serves these two purposes, perhaps more:
If someone searches for a solution to question X, the person usually misses the answer if it is hidden in the topic dedicated to the question about issue Z.
Furthermore, does it help to maintain the readability of a topic, especially if a topic gets longer and longer, it quickly gets very distracting to read around the Q&A not belonging to the initial topic.
So I invite you to look around the forum, familiarize yourself with our manners and tics, explore topics that may be new or interesting to you, visit our gallery for instance, maybe read the TOS or Code of Conduct that you agreed to follow when you registered, or do something else of what even I can’t think of currently.
Michelist, thank you for making an exception and answering my last off-topic question! I’ll strictly adhere to The Code and Rules from now on. I was not sure whether I should have created a separate topic for a dumb question such as where the f .kra is in my Krita and, honestly, I was extremely tired yesterday (I wasn’t lazy or anything, I apologize!). I’ll try to move/create a separate topic now.
Look what I am shown on my end by my Krita - the list of extensions starts from .ora, the scrolling thing is not shown AND (dramatic pause) I need to swipe a couple of times on my touch pad as if I am digging that extension up so the first 2 lines (including maladetto .kra) show up finally!!! ohhh Krita played jokes on me yesterday…
That was absolutely exemplary, but don’t take my words so seriously they aren’t military orders, my advice was meant for the future / for the time to come, after all you are new here and can’t know everything from the beginning.
Therefore, that wouldn’t have been necessary, but is exemplary →
You should be able →
to scroll up or down with your mouse-wheel, instead of using the scroll-bar,
to do it even with a wheelless mouse, in that case click onto the drop-down field to activate it (fold out the list your screenshot shows) and walk through the list of offered extensions using your arrow keys, they should be able to do the job instead,
to simply add .kra to your filename, e.g. my-file.kra should also create a Krita-File,
to do it via Krita’s own dialog. Disable in Krita, via → ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘General’’ in the tab ‘‘Miscellaneous’’ the setting ‘‘Enable native file dialogs’’,
to solve this hiccup.
Can it be that your display is not very large and that you additionally use display-scaling on system-level?
If these hints don’t work, we have to take a deeper inspection to find out where the culprit hides.
It may be that another user has to take over then, I’m not so well right now, but time will tell.
ohhh Krita played jokes on me yesterday…