Hello all. Currently trying to make the transition to digital art. I’‘m reading the krita manual. I don’t know if my search terms arent great, because I’m finding it hard to set up the s-pen gestures on the tablet.
Any advice on that, and general android setup advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hello @Sepiax, and welcome to the forum!
Are you aware that you can set them up in Krita under Settings → Configure Krita? There you will find a menu in the sidebar of the opening dialog only for the S-Pen. But since I don’t use an Android device, I can’t help you further with setting up the S-Pen.
Michelist
Hi there!
Just as @Michelist says, in Settings > Configure Krita you can set up everything.
Scroll down to S Pen Actions, you can map the button/s and gestures to whatever action you want within the app. I use the S6 lite and haven’t been able to do this probably because mine is not an active stylus, so keep that in mind.
In General > Tools you can disable Touch Painting, so Krita recognizes only the S Pen as input for brushes and other tools.
The Canvas Input menu allows you to map certain hand gestures to specific actions, like two-finger tap for undo (default), two-finger drag for zooming in and out, etc. For example, I’ve set the four-finger tap to fit canvas to screen, four-finger drag to set the rotation to 0°, and five-finger tap to enter canvas-only mode. Some gestures might overlap, so play around and set Krita up to your fit your workflow.
I also recommend setting your toolbars (Settings > Configure Toolbars) to have direct access to all the tools/funtions you use regularly, and to have them show up in the canvas-only mode (Configure Krita > Canvas-only Settings, check everything you want to still see when entering this mode.)
Hope this helps!
Hi Michelist. Thanks for the quick reply. I did take a look under there, but unfortunately the S-Pen doesn’t seem to respond to the gestures.
Hi vicodood. The S pen actions weren’t working. I wonder if it is the type of stylus i have then. At least i can stop wasting time trying to get that to work! I wasn’t even aware that there were active S-pens. I was just using the one i got with the tablet.
I was looking at the update notes and turned that touch painting off already. I haven’t really used the gestures too much. The fit screen to canvas one sounds great! I do have a keyboard too, but it is awkward to use on the go, so any and all useful gestures etc., are welcome!
I was trying to find a way to hotkey toggle a docker to appear/dissapear, like in photoshop, but i dont even know if that’s possible. Or a way to toggle workspaces. Some of the right click commands don’t work on tablet great. I tried holding the stylus on the toolbar to bring up the workspaces, the chooser doesn’t appear.
Thanks for all the gold though! The zoom and rotation shortcuts sound great.
Did you activate or couple it with your tablet? I believe to remember hearing something like that, so that it will work out of the box as a standard stylus, but for using the S-Pen actions you need to do something extra, like coupling a Bluetooth device. Was there a manual for the S-Pen which you can “ask”?
Michelist
No. I will be honest, i thought it would be similar to the wacom. I’ll have to do more reading on the pen side than the krita side then i take it. The pen assignments did work with rough animator and nomad sculpt out of the box though, as in i could bind the button. i don’t know what that means, if anything. I didn’t get any fancy s-pen though, just the one that came with the samsung tablet.
Okay, then try to find it in the manual, I hold my fingers crossed for you!
And, by the way:
Always when you post below someone, AND are not pointing to a different user in the topic, it will be an answer to the user above, and thus you will see no arrow plus name of the user you are talking to, the forum software suppresses it.
This is absolutely logical, and every Discourse forum (the software this forum runs with) on this blue marble tumbling through space and time around our sun works exactly the same way, there is no need to constantly double posting and deleting the post you believe to be not addressed to the user above.
Michelist
Oh dammit. Thanks for that!
I’m not familiar with the series 10, but if your S pen works with your tablet right out of the box (i.e. doesn’t require connection via bluetooth, no charging) then by Samsung standards it’s not an active stylus and we’re in the same boat. I’ve tried everything and it doesn’t work. It’s kind of a bummer because it works with other software but not here, so I’m cutting my loses and managing without since Krita is the most robust art app I have that doesn’t make my devices crash.
Workspaces and the canvas-only mode will be your best friends in this case. I have shortcuts to them on my toolbars, along with the eraser toggle, and the workflow doesn’t suffer. You can search them up (and every other option you need) in the list while configuring the toolbars and arrange them as you please.
In terms of workspaces, you can access them via the Window tab on the Menu, though I do recommend having the button on a toolbar for faster access and easier management.
@Sepiax I have the same tablet and I use it for Krita every day. The S Pen that comes with that model does not have air functions so the S Pen Actions section will not help you.
I have my S Pen set to bring up the colour sampler temporarily (the same as holding ctrl and tapping in the desktop version). Also, I had to adjust the Input Pressure Global Curve significantly to make the S Pen as sensitive as I like it to be (had to do the same thing in HiPaint so it’s not just Krita).
To set the S Pen function to something else, you have to understand that the S Pen tip and button register as mouse clicks. The tip is a left mouse click (as are all stylus tips whether Wacom or Samsung) and the button is a middle mouse click. Just make the change within Canvas Input Settings to use Middle Button for the function you want the button to invoke.
Remember, too, there are a number of gestures you can assign. Double tap is the default for undo (but you can change that). I assigned 3-finger drag to “confirm” as we sometimes need this to replace the enter key in desktop mode.
If you come up with specific questions about how to do something on the tablet, make a post for each one and we’ll help. I have yet to find anything that I did on Windows that is not doable on Android – you just have to be willing to do some customizations.
Hi sooz. Many thanks for that. I’ve been playing around for the animation for the last week. Bout to actually start doing stuff with textures so about to drop some questions. I hadn’t thought of doing confirm as a gesture,that’s actually a great tip. Much appreciated!
Have fun playing around. You might end up teaching the rest of us a thing or two.
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