I need to change the colors - please can anyone help me?
I am the newest of newbies!
Thank you in advance.
Hello and welcome to the forum 
(You donât need to edit-bump topics to get them noticed.)
Changing the colours is quite easy and it depends on various details such as what you want to change them to.
Also, is your lineart on a separate transparent layer with the colouring layer underneath? It really ought to be.
It looks like youâve been using the Fill Tool to fill with colour and thatâs an easy and simple way.
You can carry on doing that with different colours with the possible consequence of having the filling colour âeat intoâ the lineart, depending on the settings in the Tool Options docker.
Doing colouring on the lineart layer is a good way to ruin the lineart.
You can also change the colours by using an HSV (Hue Shift Value) filter on the image to âshiftâ the Hue and Saturation of all colours but donât change the value too much if the lineart is on the same layer or youâll ruin the blacks.
Have you been saving and working with .jpg images as you developed this?
I ask because there are some âinterestingâ textures buried in the black lineart and also in the coloured parts.
It is possible to isolate the lineart from this image with a bit of white filling and Levels fiddling then doing Colour to Alpha to get rid of all the white.
If you did that, youâd be in a better place for future colouring work giving you greater flexibility.
So, how do you want to go about it?
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@ahabgreybeard Thank you so much for your reply.
(I edited to change my words⌠unsure what edit-bumping is but it sounds a bit like queue jumping which would be most impolite!)
The image is straight from the web - a free clipart image. I take no credit for anything except removing the checked background.
I joined Krita today, paid my donation, skimmed the installation and basic manual and plunged right in, thought I might work it out and of course I couldnât!
So, to answer your question - I have no idea what to do except feel embarrassed, go read the manual and study your expert response. I am so envious - how you see âburied interesting texturesâ.
I did however try to isolate the lineart but couldnât.
Iâm sorry that I made the wrong assumption but there are people who do that.
It is possible but it takes a long time. Thatâs what forums are for
The problem with downloading images from the web is that they are often small and are often .jpg and so are âdirtyâ and can be very dirty if theyâve been made by someone who took a .jpg and did further work on it before saving it as .jpg.
Here is a cleaned up version of that image:
If you download and open it in krita and then do Filter â Colours â Colour to Alpha and accept the default parameter settings by pressing OK, that will give you the lineart on a transparent layer.
Then you can add a white (or whatever) background layer and a Fill Colouring layer under the lineart and use the Fill Tool on the colouring layer as here:
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@AhabGreybeard
Oh that is amazing - you are wonderful!
Thank you, thank you.
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Itâs krita thatâs wonderful and that was quite easy. Youâre very welcome
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Well, you were wonderful to take the time with my difficulty!
Thank you again!
Welcome to the forum, @ThisMoment. I wish you many happy hours with Krita.
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@sooz Thank you!
@AhabGreybeard or anyone else!
Please may I ask for help again.
I canât work out how to add the âFill Coloringâ layer as per your example above.
I also donât know how to choose colors using the Fill Tool. Your colour palette has more subtle colours than I can find.
(I worked on Krita until 1.30am trying to do it, sorry to be such a klutz! I have no experience with this type of software)
This screenshot is back to the beginning of a new upload of your cleaned up clock.
The âFill Coloringâ layer is a paint layer he named so.
I use the foreground/background-color-chooser for the fill-tool.
Hopefully I understood your question correctly and my answer helps a bit and isnât horribly wrong, it is already 4 oâclock in the morning, and Iâm tired, otherwise probably only helps to wait for Ahab. 
Michelist
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@Michelist 4am! Thank you for your advice. Iâll get on to it.
Sleep well!
Yes, 4am! Maybe Iâm a bit old school.
Michelist
Edit: Thank you, I will!
It helped a lot - much appreciated.
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I seem to be making some progress thanks to you both
How do I select colours for the Fill Tool? It is only filling using the foreground colour (dark grey) no matter which colour palette I use or which colour I select.
Hope Iâm not getting too boring and that this will be (nearly) the last hurdle I need help on.
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@ThisMoment This is turning into a baptism of fire for you
Donât worry, itâs all good experience and weâre here to throw water on you as needed.
An interesting (and annoying) problem has appeared in this situation.
Lots of technical details so Iâll fold the text up. Click the triangle to expand:
It's Greyscale !!
The image file, âalarm-clock.pngâ, which I uploaded to the forum earlier, is on my desktop at the moment and if I open it in krita then it has an RGB/A colour profile.
However, if I download it from my reply in the forum then open the downloaded .png file, it shows as a Greyscale image.
Look at the bottom of your screenshot, on the status bar, it says youâre working with a Greyscale image.
Somewhere along the line, some website or download manager software has decided that because the image only has black and a few shades of grey in it then it should be treated as Greyscale, not RGB.
Iâm sure I embedded the sRGB profile in it when I Exported as .png out of krita.
The fact that I used Filter â Adjust â Desaturate as part of the clean up process may have contributed to this.
This needs further experiments and chat with other people to see what they find about the situation.
So, you opened a Greyscale image and now you canât paint with colour.
On the top menu bar, do Image â Convert Image Colour Space then tell it to convert to RGB/A and press OK like this::
Looking at your full screen screenshot, you donât have the Default workspace in use so you donât have the Advanced Colour Selector docker and other useful things available.
You may have accidentally closed some dockers along the way as you were experimenting/exploring.
Because youâre a beginner with krita, it would be best to use the Default workspace.
So click the âChoose Workspaceâ icon and click on âDefaultâ then click anywhere outside the Workspace list to get out of it.
Add a new layer using the big â+â icon at the bottom of the Layers docker.
You double click a layer name in the docker to edit/change its name.
You can grab-drag them up and down to change their location in the docker to put them over or under each other as needed,
For you, the learning journey has begun. For everybody else here, itâs still going on because it never really ends.
you brighten my day (or evening as it is here) and make ploughing on so worthwhile!
Iâll get right down to reading.
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A little bonus tip:
To get back the smooth line edge after the processing you can use the GâMIC anti-aliasing filter on the line-art layer.
Filter â Start GâMIC-Qt â Repair â Smooth [Antialias]
And also reverse-image search turned up this higher res png:
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Thank you for finding that @emilm
Because itâs the original .png file, it has no .jpg compression artifacts (dirt) on it so it was a lot easier to clean.
Iâve cleaned it and resized the canvas to give a little bit of space around it.
It can be downloaded from the link below and will be RGB/A colour space, black lineart on a transparent layer, when opened. (It is when I download it and open it.):
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@emilm Thank you!