Hello Krita users,

I would like to know what colorspaces and colordepth and color profiles do you use for your artwork or generally in your workflow?

I don't have workflow I test bugs and brush engines, so I use

Colorspace: RGBA

Bit-depth: 8-bit

Profile: sRGB

Maybe your workflow is to use 8-bit rgba to save memory which might imply good performance and then in the final step you convert to 16-bit.
Or you prefer to work in 16-bit to have smooth gradients. I don't know. That's why I ask

Please share your colorspace setup!
It will help Krita development, e.g. in my case I'm wondering because of work on GMIC integration.

Hi Lukas,

Usually for comics pages I use
RGBA
8bits
sRGB
as it's the colorspace with the best painting performance, it allows me to work on bigger resolution files.

Though for some paintings, when I want better color mixing, I use:
RGBA
16bits
linear scRGB
As with linear RGB I can get better colors mix, respecting colors lightness.. and as Linear scRGB must not be used on 8bit file, I need at least 16bits file for this. But of course painting performance is slower than in 8bit (I could also use 16/32bits float, but then painting performance gets worse..).

If I need CMYK, I usually export flattened canvas and convert the result to needed CMYK 8bits profile (though I keep some elements on separate layers by exporting them separately, like ink-black-line layer separated from colors layer, to can tweak print color values)

I also tried a few times to paint in
LAB
16bits
LAB identity built-in
It gives interesting results, but it's really different than painting in rgb, I didn't get used to it yet .

Please share your preferences here, I would like to have the data in one place

sketchstick wrote on IRC:

I generally use LAB 16-bit sRGB as well. LAB for better colour mixing while painting, 16-bit for smoother gradients and sRGB because I can't expect much else for digital art. I usually drop that to RGB 16-bit when exporting.

rgb
sRGB
8bit.

I don't have much experience with Krita yet, and i suspect my monitor's too poor to really benefit from higher bitdepth working. It is, indeed, also a huge
memory saver.
Firefox has good profile conversion these days, so having pictures embeded with profiles isn't a waste of time. It's just a shame colorimeters are pretty hard to get hold of.

My system cant handle 16 bit all that well. So for now its
RGBA
8 bit
sRGB built-in

But I would prefer Lab 8 bit, it gives some benefits of 16 bit painting in 8 bit. The colours are creamier and fresh. They mix differently than in RGB.
Last time I checked Krita didn't support Lab completely and also the files get a bit slower in Lab. Thats why I moved to RGBA.

I usea basic profile.
RGBA
8 bit
sRGB built-in

I think this is the profile that makes my machine work fine for me. and if i need CMYK i use CMYKtool. late binding. nothing fancy.

RGBA
8 bit
sRGB built-in

I work with co-authors , my work has to be re-opened by photoshop users-so I have to make the less different possible pictures

-CMYK
-8-bit
-FOGRA 27

Do you actually create pictures from scratch in cmyk? I think David creates pictures in rgb8 and when it's time to send to a publisher converts the picture and cleans it up.

I use CMYK if I know the final product is intended to be used for printed media (i.e. stickers) : ) . Also, for comic book pages some companies ask converted CMYK files with the lineart in pure black.

boudewijn : yeah, I think it's the most simple way to create ready-to-print pages. I watched some deevad's creations on youtube.
you mean creating in rgb and then converting to cmyk space, then correcting with the color balance and other tools-with-curves to set ? I'd like to do this, but theses curves mean nothing to me @_@ I'd watch some tutorials about this.
anyway, starting in cmyk is not embarrasing at all. I really like the way krita chooses printable colors in the colorwheel automatically. my problem was about the ICC color files,my photoshop version actually didn't use exactly the same ^^'

boudewijn wrote:Do you actually create pictures from scratch in cmyk? I think David creates pictures in rgb8 and when it's time to send to a publisher converts the picture and cleans it up.

Lately when I use Krita I create pictures from scratch in CMYK (I like print and digital versions to look the same if possible)
I believe the ability to use CMYK is a strength for Krita (as Painter is RGB only)

Animtim wrote:Hi Lukas,


Though for some paintings, when I want better color mixing, I use:
RGBA
16bits
linear scRGB
As with linear RGB I can get better colors mix, respecting colors lightness.. and as Linear scRGB must not be used on 8bit file, I need at least 16bits file for this. But of course painting performance is slower than in 8bit (I could also use 16/32bits float, but then painting performance gets worse..).

Really really usefull. Improved the paint blending tons