Hello
I am trying to turn a bunch of png into stamps to be used in krita. I was able to add them to brush tips. I was able to put them all in a bundle. How do i make it so I can find and actually use them on a canvas. Do i have to create a new brush specifically for each? Am I missing something. Everything I have seen so far is just to load the images in to brush tips. please help
Hello @Faerily_Rowanwind, and welcome back to the forum!
Do I understand correctly that you want to select your PNG collection from a Docker and drag it onto the canvas, similar to how it is possible with the symbol libraries, in order to be able to continue working with them?
If so, then take a look at the Imagine Board plugin from @EyeOdin, you can find it in our resources section under plugins.
Michelist
i dont quite know if that is what im trying to do but it may fix my problem? Basically i was trying to turn a png into a stamp brush where we just pressed the brush once or twice for those shaped or line images and they would be therer to manipulate size, opasity, and area etc. Does that make sence? Will your recomendation allow me to do that? (I like to color coloring book pages)
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For the imagine board case if you press ALT+LMB and hold you will be able to drag any image in and drop them on the canvas.
If it helps on your case I am not sure.
It would be nice if you could describe exactly what you actually intend to do with the pictures. Because no one who can’t read your mind will be able to tell from your previous posts what you actually intend to do.
You say you added brushes to the pictures as a tip, but that wasn’t what you wanted.
You wrote that you put the pictures together in a bundle, but that wasn’t what you expected either.
Then you ask us, as the only person who knows where the images are and what they are supposed to do for you, how you could find them and use them on the canvas, and whether you need to create a separate brush for each of the images. In the following sentence you say that you have seen the images simply loaded into the brush tips (where did you see this, who showed this where or how?)? But we still lack context, as we don’t know what you actually intend to do with them.
Do you just want to have these images available in some kind of magazine to drag them onto the canvas when needed and do whatever you want with them on the canvas?
Or do you want to use these images as stamp brushes?
If you want to use these images as stamps AND you also want to be able to store and select them clearly so that you can use them as stamp brushes, then there will be no avoiding it and you will have to create a separate brush for each of these images.
You should make sure that you give the brushes a sensible name, preferably schematic/ordered, when you create them, which will make it easier for you to quickly find the stamp you need at any given moment.
Is that what you are looking for? If not, then please try to describe what you want to do, what you want to achieve, in a way that is understandable for us who we do not know what you really want to do with your pictures. Always have in mind that we do not see what you see, we do not sit beside you.
Michelist
i want to take a line art png and place it on a canvas without having to add one image at a time from my computer. I would like to make them into their own brushes. I was able to import all of the images into brush tips. i thought taking those and placing them into a bundle would allow me to access them under brush preset. It didnt. How can i pull in line art png for example an eye or a finger or a flower without having to do it by having to go through the process of add image. i want to be able to reproduce those pngs in multiple canvases and looking for them one at a time from my computer would be far more cumbersome than having access to them in brush preset.
Does that make sense.
i have say 30 line art png. I want to be able to import and have access to them withoiut having to leave krita or open up a dialog box.
having them in a magazine to pull from would also be fine. I am assuming like a sticker book? I want to be able to move and enlarge or shrink or whatever the images on the canvas in the least cumbersom way
Learning how to use the Imagine Board would be a good idea.
If the lineart items were vector images then you could have them as a vector Symbol Library then drag them out of the docker onto the canvas as needed.
However, creating vector lineart for 30 images would not be easy and making a symbol library is a specialist technical task.
If you put each lineart item on a separate layer of a single .kra file, arranged so they don’t overlap so that you can easily see them all, then you could have that .kra file open in another tab and switch between it and your working artwork image. That collection of lineart items .kra file would be your ‘magazine’.
Then selecting the magazine, you select the layer with the lineart item you want by doing R+left-click on the lineart item, do Copy Layer in the layers docker, switch to your working artwork .kra file tab, select the target layer, do Paste Layer to create a new layer above it with the lineart item on it, move and scale/rotate the lineart as needed, then merge it down onto the target layer below. Or keep it separate if you prefer.
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