I am a Artist Coming From Clip Paint Studio?

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How do I get Krita to act more like the Paid Programs I used to?

Krita has all the tools but the layout is horrible and there are no tutorials for doing what I want?

I mean there are way to make Gimp (another program I have trouble with) work and behave like Photo Shop?

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In the keyboard shortcut settings, you can select to make them compatible with Photoshop or Paint Tool SAI but not Clip Paint Studio. Learned ‘muscle memory’ for keyboard shortcuts is a difficult thing to change, I suppose. However, you can manually customise them to your personal preferences in any way you like.

As for ‘layout’, Krita is not horrible, it is different to what you’re used to and has very flexible and powerful GUI layout and appearance customisation facilities. You just need to spend time learning what they are and how to use them.

The manual is good and has tutorials in it: https://docs.krita.org/en/
YouTube has many tutorials too (of variable quality).

There used to be a project to make GIMP look like Photoshop (called GIMP Shop) but that was a one man band project and he became dispirited and abandoned the attempt after some bad stuff happened.

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I’ve worked with many paid software for years, and I do not consider Krita having a bad user interface. On the contrary actually, it’s really good. So it’s most likely a question of personal taste and habit.

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Btw, Clip Studio Paint have the best shortcut workflow abilities. The 3 levels system brush-groups/tools is priceless thing for a “keyboard” artist like me. Unfortunately, Krita even doesn’t have a separate eraser tool.

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What do you mean by separate eraser tool? Must be a misunderstanding, of course Krita has an eraser tool. It’s an arts software.

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I think what I9S means is that there’s no Toolbox icon that looks like an eraser and when clicked/selected switches to a tool that erases. This is true but krita uses a different principle of erasing, as is noted in the manual. In particular, the use of the ‘E’ key to toggle a brush into and out of eraser mode causes confusion to first time users.

If I press Shift+X while painting then I get the default hard circular eraser and can erase with it. I then press ‘backslash’ to go back to whatever brush I was using. If I press Ctrl+Shift+X, I get the default soft eraser and can erase with it. Then I press ‘backslash’ to go back to whatever brush I was using. (All positioned in the same small area of the keyboard.) The choice of these two erasers was my choice and decision and I could have made my own custom erasers to use if I wanted to.

All that was done using the keyboard shortcut customisation facilites and the built-in ‘Ten Brushes’ script. The facilities are there for you but you have to learn how to use them, which is not difficult.

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Also Krita’s eraser mode toggle is not just limited to brush tool. You can toggle the erase mode when you are in drawing tools, fill tool, gradient tool etc, which makes it even powerful. We can even erase with a pattern with has transparency etc. So Krita has erasers which are not just limited to brushes but also gradients patterns and shapes etc

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Krita has that in form of a plugin!
Blender Cloud released a plugin to make selecting brush-types more like the other programs! https://twitter.com/Blender_Cloud/status/1218113238187085826

Quote from the Blender site:

A core part of Vivien’s workflow consists of using the “paint”, “erase” and “smudge” tools in rapid sequence. This is possible in softwares like GIMP or other commercial software by invoking specific shortcuts. For example, pressing the W key will switch to the brush tool, the E key will toggle the eraser tool, R will toggle the smudge tool.
While Krita is a powerful digital painting application, its reliance on “Brush engines” defines a different way to perform “paint”, “erase” or “smudge”. These actions can be accessed through the brush palette or via pie menus.

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Actually I’m happy Krita doesn’t act like Photoshop which has an horrible layout.

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This is wonderful, I think this can be posted as new topic in our resources section. Also I’ll see if i get time to add it to our list of plugins in manual

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Like you say that you want it to be more like Clip Studio but you don’t say what you want it to actually do dude.

Krita is not a FREE CLONE of Clip or any another program… I feel like if you buy a license of what you really want you will solve all your problems here, just saying :\

Either way considering:
Layout, just drag stuff around to make it feel similar to where stuff “should” be to your taste and save that. Just don’t expect the dockers look the same.
For shortcuts just switch the preset layout to clip studio.
For the eraser E toggle … Krita’s method works better compared to any other app. If you want a different tool just go to the Brush Presets and use a Eraser from there. You have alot more power having it like this.
For tutorials and info on the tools you can use the Krita Manual

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You made my day, thanks a lot. (wish is only more than 3 slots) It is one step away from Photoshop. Major stumbling block for me is limited blending modes in brush texture (multiply and substract only), desperately need HardMix and Height (HardLight with other are also very welcoming).

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What AhabGreybeard and other said is what I mean. Krita eraser is just a mode, essentialy with key or toolbar button you switch tool into “erase/clear” blending mode. Tool is bending to large group of actions (e.g. brush presets), and switching between tools is switch between groups with autoselect the last subtool presets of current group.
The painting tool group in Krita is only brush tool (don’t mention “Three brush” and vector tools ), Photoshop has brush, blending brush, eraser, smudge, burn/sponge tool, in Paint tool SAI you have nothing - for each preset you assign hotkey, PaintstormStudio have brush and eraser, Rebelle have 5 type of real media imitation with suboptions and something similar in Artrage. In Clip Studio Paint the number of groups/tools and subtools is unlimited with ability to assign any shortcut to the tool/group, additional subtool and tool presets itself, plus you can put the tool into toolbar or floating panel on you wish.

So, the plugin Rakurri linked create a virtual three groups with shortcut ability. And that really resolve the question in Krita.

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That’s a feature for me :wink: I hated it when I tried to paint anything in Artrage 5 and I was getting something weird and circular instead of the brush shape that I was using. Obviously when I paint, I want my eraser to be just like my paint brush, just removing paint instead of adding it. And recently Photoshop added eraser mode similar to what Krita has :wink:

But for those who struggle with the different concept or are working with lineart (which can show some of the advantages of a separate eraser tool or at least a way to disable some brush dynamics like Size) there is a plugin called Ten Brushes which allows you to switch to some specific brush when you wish to do it using a shortcut. After some customization, it should fit the purpose. It’s available in Krita by default. There is also a dedicated Eraser plugin: Krita Direct Eraser Plugin

There is also ‘/’ shortcut that switches to the last used preset, and Brush History docker, so while it might look less convenient, after an initial set up it should all work quite well.

That should be easy to do, the only issue is, as far as I remember, that no one said what math this height mode uses. And of course it still needs someone to implement it…

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