# Pixelart brush snapping to grid

**URL:** <https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109>\
**Category:** Input Device Support\
**Created:** [April 1, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109 "2022-04-01T15:30:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/andrew_dilman/32/43626_2.png) [@Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/u/Andrew_Dilman)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/1 "2022-04-01T15:30:26Z")

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I’m pixelart artist and I’m trying to use Krita. But pixelart brushes snapping to grid and it’s very uncomfortable. So can I somehow fix it?

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**Author:** ![Takiro](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/takiro/32/209381_2.png) [@Takiro](https://krita-artists.org/u/Takiro)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/2 "2022-04-01T15:42:09Z")

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What do you mean? The brushes work in exact pixels so the grid could only be the pixels of the image itself (Krita doesn’t use subpixels I think).

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/andrew_dilman/32/43626_2.png) [@Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/u/Andrew_Dilman)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/3 "2022-04-01T15:45:20Z")

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I mean, the brush sticks to the pixel grid and doesn’t move smoothly

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**Author:** ![Solution-Beast](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/solution-beast/32/2969_2.png) [@Solution-Beast](https://krita-artists.org/u/Solution-Beast)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/4 "2022-04-01T16:21:12Z")

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If you’ve turned on Sharpness in the brush editor, it will do that.  
It helps you to see which pixel it will paint.

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**Author:** ![LunarKreatures](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/lunarkreatures/32/231342_2.png) [@LunarKreatures](https://krita-artists.org/u/LunarKreatures)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/6 "2022-04-01T16:35:39Z")

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I really wish there was a way to disable that other than disabling sharpness as a whole. As sharpness helps avoiding antializing in the brushes but the snapping is terrible.

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/andrew_dilman/32/43626_2.png) [@Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/u/Andrew_Dilman)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/7 "2022-04-02T16:03:25Z")

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Thank you! It helped!

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/andrew_dilman/32/43626_2.png) [@Andrew\_Dilman](https://krita-artists.org/u/Andrew_Dilman)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/8 "2022-04-02T16:08:41Z")

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Disabling sharpness dont affect on antialiasing in default pixel brush so it’s not a big deal. But with Dithering brush it have affect. So i disable sharpness only on default pixelart brush.

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**Author:** ![anon63336650](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon63336650](https://krita-artists.org/u/anon63336650)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/9 "2022-04-02T17:53:18Z")

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@Andrew_Dilman , do you have “snap to grid” turned in the grids and rulers docker?

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**Author:** ![tom](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@tom](https://krita-artists.org/u/tom)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/10 "2022-04-05T02:11:05Z")

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I’ve just submitted a merge request to allow that behavior to be configurable to the brush. You can find it here: [Make Sharpness option's outline alignment behavior optional (!1405) · Merge requests · Graphics / Krita · GitLab](https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/1405).

If accepted, it should be a part of Krita 5.1.

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**Author:** ![LunarKreatures](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/lunarkreatures/32/231342_2.png) [@LunarKreatures](https://krita-artists.org/u/LunarKreatures)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/11 "2022-04-05T03:59:06Z")

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That’s really great! Thank you for your work!

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**Author:** ![system](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/1X/e446d8b3077ddf6dfb5b2cd65199c20095b47dcf.png) [@system](https://krita-artists.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/pixelart-brush-snapping-to-grid/39109/12 "2022-04-08T03:59:48Z")

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