Hi to all. I often work in different programs and therefore want to set them up roughly the same. Tell me how to change actions like photoshop. For example, I want to activate the color picker using options, not commands. Instead, the command should activate the move tool. Also, I want to quickly duplicate the selected area using options + move. How do I do this safely Thanks
Apart from the fact that you, like so many others, have made the conceptual mistake of assuming that everyone knows how Photoshop works and what works there and how, I am not absolutely sure that this is what you mean. So Iām afraid the actions you want from Photoshop donāt exist in Krita. But I would imagine that you would get much closer to your goal with @yetanotherpainterās paid plugin, āActuatorā, than with the Krita and graphics tablet options I describe below.
Krita is customizable in large parts, you can load a Photoshop adapted scheme for the keyboard shortcut keys, for example, but it canāt be 100 percent Photoshop compatible, because some keys canāt be remapped without causing major programming difficulties, due to the fact that Krita comes from the Linux world AND has to work not only under Windows and macOS.
Another possibility to create a similar operating concept for all programs can be achieved in the driver of your graphics tablet, if it offers the possibility to assign profiles to programs, as almost all current graphics tablets do.
In the combination of adapting the respective software and driver profiles, it is almost always possible to produce an extremely similar operating concept across all programs, but not always a 100% identical one. And not every software offers every operating concept other software has.
Michelist
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Fine. Thank you, I understand you.
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Hello @Yaroslav_Kutrovskyi
The Actuator is definitely able to do everything that is possible via python. One of the fanciest cases was a request from one of the users: New View on Second Screen : Script for Actuator - Augmented Brush
The user need to create new view, send it to another display and then send a keyboard stroke to the OS to activate external tool.
Regarding your needs, could you elaborate a bit more?
What do you mean by āoptions, not commandsā?
This one is not clear for me as well. Do you want activate Move Tool by pressing P instead of T?
A gif animation of this case would definitely help.
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Thank you for your interest in this question) I meant the āoptionā and ācommandā keys on the Macbook keyboard) on Windows, these are the āaltā and āctrlā keys. In photoshop it works as follows: when I have a brush selected as a tool, I can press the āctrlā key and this activates the move tool. If you hold down āctrlā and press āaltā and move the object at the same time, it will create a copy of the object. YouTube is full of video lessons for beginners where this is demonstrated.
Also, in Photoshop, when the brush is activated, if you press alt, the color picker is activated (in the Krita, this is implemented on the ctrl key and I would like to change it if possible)
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You can change them all to anything you like:
Double click on the Input field to open it for editing, for every action.
Be careful to make sure that you donāt have any clashes before you press OK and start using them.
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If you are coming from Photoshop world, you may just try to switch Canvas into Photoshop comaptible;
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Thank you. Yes, I looked at this area of āāthe settings, but I donāt understand exactly how to set the action I want. Iām afraid to experiment here, because it seems to me that Krita is too sensitive to this. One careless movement and you can break something)
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You can restore the default settings by clicking the Restore Defaults button if you make a mistake.
Also, using Edit Profiles, you can create a new named profile, which will be stored in the input sub-folder of the resources folder. You can select that to edit it and make changes and resave it etc. then go back to the standard profile at any time.
Here, Iāve changed the usual Ctrl+Left button Action, for picking the foreground colour from the current layer, to be Alt+Left button.
Double click on the Input itself and the small editor window lets you change it,
Double-click on the Action to see what actions are available.
Press Cancel if you get too confused or Restore Defaults if things go wrong 
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You almost canāt destroy Krita because, as in the topic where you wanted to reinstall Krita, there is usually a way to reset Krita.
And here I must confess to having forgotten something else, and that is that after you have set up Krita to your liking, you should make a backup copy of the ākritarcā file, so that you can quickly return to a defined working state by simply copying this file back, overwriting the broken ākritarcā.
Michelist
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Also backup the entire resources folder because some settings are stored in there, such as canvas input profiles and workspaces.
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Thank you all. In principle, almost everything worked, except for dynamic copying, but I think it is also possible, Iām just not looking there. Basically I need to create a copy of the layer when the brush is activated with a keyboard shortcut. I think I will find a solution after some time)
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By the way, hereās a good example of what I call ābreaking Kritaā: after all my manipulations, everything works, but if I want to hide the selection and press the combination of ctrl + H, Krita just completely collapses, and I donāt understand why this happened and where can it be fixed because I didnāt touch it at all
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This might be a bug. Since this shouldnāt happen. If you can give us the steps to reproduce we can then report it.
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What i need to do?
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Okey, i did it) This bug occurs when the window of the mole is not expanded to its full width, then for some reason keyboard shortcuts for the Finder work and collapse all windows.
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What is the āmoleā?
What is the āFinderā?
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Here the Actuator might come in handy.
Reacting on the even of activating the brush might be a bit tricky. However, it is possible to activate the particular brush and duplicate layer at the same time.
Here the example:
Suppose you want to activate brush āb) Basic-5 Sizeā and make a duplicate layer. Then you will have a sequence like this.
- Custom Script Step
- Duplicate Layer
The script itself is simple:
from krita import Krita
all_presets = Krita.instance().resources('preset')
BRUSH_NAME = 'b) Basic-5 Size'
selected_preset = all_presets[BRUSH_NAME]
currentView = Krita.instance().activeWindow().activeView()
currentView.setCurrentBrushPreset(selected_preset)
And the result will look like this:
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āFinderā is macOSās file explorer. Cmd+H is the global macOS shortcut to hide an application. Apparently this shortcut overrides any attempt to set Cmd+H as a shortcut in Krita unless Krita is fullscreen.
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Thatās right, thanks for answering for me, I was absent for a while)
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