New to Using Krita - Pop-up Palette Problem

[Fireman77]

Hello,

I have just started to use Krita. I have a question to ask about the Pop-up Palette. When I looked a pictorial example of the pop-up palette it shows the palette with 10 brushes which can be selected. When I open the palette in Krita on my PC no brushes are shown only blank circles. Please can someone tell me how to get the pop-up palette to show the brushes or tell me what I might be doing wrong?

Best regards,

Greg

[kaichi1342]

You see this icon below.
You click it and select one of the available brush tag.

you can create a brush tag of your own; under brush preset.
Just Click the tag icon and type the name of the tag.

Next right click the brush of your choice;

And choose the tag you created.

then on right click popup palette switch the tag it shows to the one you created.

Bonus: to increase the number of brushes on the palette
Menu > Settings > Configure Krita > Popup Palette > Maximum brush size

You can adjust other things there.

[Fireman77]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. The details you have given are very helpful. I have tried out what you said and I’m now able to add brushes to the pop-up.

What confused me was that having never used Krita before I decided to watch a tutorial called Digital Painting in Krita: A Quick Start by Arron Porter which is on Skillshare. In one of the videos called Pop-up Palette: Essentials he talks about the pop-up palette and loads it on his screen in the video. The palette loads in the video shows 10 brushes but throughout the entire video it is not mentioned how the brushes got in the palette. I assumed, wrongly, that the palette automatically load with brushes installed. That is why I thought I had possibly a technical problem.

Thanks again.

Best regards,
Greg

[Takiro]

Normally the pallette is preconfigured to use the “My favorites” tag when freshly installed. At least that used to be the case.

[AhabGreybeard]

@Fireman77

throughout the entire video it is not mentioned how the brushes got in the palette.

That sort of thing is a common problem with tutorials.

The properties/appearance of the popup palette is just one of the many mysterious wonders of krita and you’ll encounter many more in the future
That’s what the Krita-Artists forum is for and also the manual:

User Manual — Krita Manual 5.2.0 documentation

Sadly, the ‘Search doc’ box facility is still having problems but you can select from the list of major sections.

[kaichi1342]

I’ve been thinking about this alot, lately.

Something like krita for absolute beginner is needed. There’s also been issue with the younger ones who seems to be lost at the workings of a PC [like directories seems foreign to some]

Specially on things that are connected - like the tag system and the popup palette.

@Takiro I was thinking it should’ve been but probably there is no brush there in ops case . It’s been awhile since i have seen a freshly installed krita.

[Fireman77]

Thank you for your post. That is interesting because There definitely no brushes when I opened the palette - Greg

[Fireman77]

Thank you. Yes I have found problems with other tutorials for other digital painting applications. I think sometimes the tutor assumes that the student will have some level of understanding of how the program works. Fortunately, I am not completely lost because I have some knowledge of other painting apps. Thanks again. - Greg