One button to turn opacity (or flow) to 100%

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This is something I do a lot, turning opacity to 100% especially to erase some parts of a painting. Can Krita turn opacity or flow instantly to 100% by pressing a button (a shortcut)? This would be really useful.

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You can do it with the “Quick Settings Docker”, another shortcut I don’t know.

Michelist

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I already use Quick Settings Docker but still it isn’t as fast as I’d like. If some commands could be programmed in Krita and linked to shortcuts, that’d be great. Like telling the software to follow an action (such as increasing opacity to 100%) and linking that action to a shortcut. Multiple commands also could be possible that way (for ex. decrease flow to 60%, switch to a certain brush, decrease the size of that brush to 50 px etc.) and do all these with a shortcut.

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I just found one extension for opacity:

Maybe it will help a little?

Michelist

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Sound like “quick toggle pressure sensitivity for opacity or flow” to me, which have some similar requests before.
I think Compact Brush Toggler might do the job currently? (Don’t know if it support keyboard shortcut)

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That’s right, the “Compact Brush Toggler” would most likely work too! And I’m searching GitHub, LOL.
:joy:

Michelist

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It is nice but it requires to press ctrl+alt+shift+a number, which is like a Tekken combo. If the shortcuts could be custom, that’d be better.

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I have not taken a deeper look at the plugin, but it would make me wonder if one couldn’t reassign the shortcuts via ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘Keyboard Shortcuts’’, as it is usual in Krita.

Michelist

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Is so, it’d be useful.

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Just installed “Krita Direct Shortcuts”, you can reassign the shortcuts, but I fear you mean “Compact Brush Toggler”, there you can not.
But theoretically it should be possible to create a second plugin like Krita Direct Shortcuts, but for flow. One has to find the handler for flow and has to exchange the handlers for opacity with those for flow in the code of the plugin…

Michelist

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I downloaded it but the installation eluded me. Should all the contents of two separate folders be copied to the action and pykrita folders? Not like my average plug-in installation actually. But I’ll try it some other time.

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The easiest way to install plugins in Krita is to go to “Tools” >> “Scripts” >> “Import Python Plugin from File…”, then in the dialog that opens, browse to the plugin (the ZIP file you just downloaded) select the ZIP-File and confirm it, confirm the next dialog box as well, then restart Krita and then, depending on the plugin, set up the plugin to your liking.
At least that is the usual way, I did it the old way, copying the folders into Krita’s resource-folder and then started Krita.

Michelist

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Normally I do it that way but the unfamiliar instructions for this plug-in was particularly confusing for me. I’ll try it the usual way, as you did.

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Henlo maker of CBT here, no keyboard shortcut for it unfortunately - i learned how to make it after I made my plugin and had not thought of making one for CBT. :sweat_smile:

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With the brush activated, the I and O keys increase and decrease the opacity, respectively, by 10%. Suppose I have a medium blue shade (#00b7d9)…

• If I press the I key once, the color goes from 100% opacity to 90%; if I press twice in a row, the opacity drops to 80%;

• If the color is at opacity, say, 50% and I press the O key once, it will go to 60%; if I press twice in a row, it goes to 70%;

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Yeah, but that means lots of button presses. Especially if you have low opacity and must turn back to 100% opacity.

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