Day,
I am a beginner in Krita. I’m working on an Imac in version 5.1.5 of Krita.
I would like to use a fill pattern, but I don’t see how to do that.
When I click on the fill pattern sign and I click on ‘use as patterns’ nothing happens.
Does anyone have an idea how best to approach this?
Thank you in advance!
Hello @Alverman and welcome to the forum 
The ‘use as Pattern’ button on the Custom Pattern tab is intended to give a preview when you’re creating a custom pattern. Are you trying to create a custom pattern?
It may be that you’re trying to fill a region or an entire layer with a pattern.
The Fill Tool is the tool to use for that after selecting a pattern using the Fill Pattern ‘Patterns’ tab or the Patterns docker.
To fill an entire layer with a pattern, you can also use a Fill Layer.
Please explain what you want to do.
@Ahabgreybeard Thank you very much!
I explain what I want to do and how I proceeded:
What do I do wrong?
Thank you.
Did you select this option from my screenshot before clicking
on your canvas to fill it?
Michelist
Add: Hello @AhabGreybeard! 
The behaviour of a tool can vary a lot depending on the settings in the Tool Options docker.
When you have the 'Fill Patterns selector widget open, it will have focus.
If you then click anywhere else, that will have the effect of changing the focus e.g to the canvas if you click on the canvas. It will not result in the selected tool being used.
So, you need to click anywhere and then click on the canvas only once.
This is probably because you don’t have pattern selected as the option in the Tool Options docker:
Hello @Michelist
That’s what I call a comprehensive description!
Michelist
Thank you - I like taking screenshots and drawing red boxes on them
Yep, that is the trick, we humans usually understand input much faster when it’s communicated to us visually.
Michelist
@Michelist and the others: thank you all very much!
You’re right. I didn’t click on the ‘Patterns’-button in the Tool options.
I realize I have a lot to learn.
Have a nice day!
I’m happy you found the culprit and are able now to do what you had planned to do.
I wish you a nice day, much fun with Krita and always happy painting!
And in case of other issues, feel free to ask here in the forum, we’re happy to help!
Michelist
Thank you all very much!
I think Krita is a great program, but not that easy to understand! But I definitely intend to learn even more Krita. So, I think I will have to call on you in the future. 
You may decide to learn Krita the way I used. I have read all the requests for support here in the forum and tried first to recreate the problems of other users with me, and then, after it was recreated, to work out the solution to those same problems with me. Believe me, you can hardly learn more and faster.
Michelist
Thank you for the tip. I’ll think about it. But there is still so much I’d like to learn.
It’s always been that way, and it’s not getting any less. But since no one can learn everything at the same time and all at once, the best strategy has always been to work through things in order as they arrive.
And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing, bit by bit, one after the other, after all, I still want to have something to discover tomorrow.
Michelist
Here are 16 free patterns for download. The package comes with a small pdf tutorial on how to use patterns in Krita and Gimp.
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