Since Krita is on Steam Greenlight many questions are asked, often concerning recurring topics like: How to stabilize brush movement to reduce jitter?

There are Tutorials available and questions answered in various places (forum here, forum there), but people do not want to search for an answer or do not know where to search. One could sit down and write more tutorials or record videos, but it will be always problematic to reach out to all the different places on the web where krita is present. Even if we write an official "Guide", this will maybe only help a few users, in the first hours with krita.

I think that an obvious "first steps" help directly in krita would save a lot of time on the long term. And it may improve the first impression of users and help them to get started instantly.

I have thought about interactive Tutorial Documents a time before in another context, but now it might be an idea to solve the "first-steps-problem"
Interactive learning is not better than plain explanatory text (imo), but it has a good acceptance by students of nowadays.. So this is a pro argument for a template section with tutorial documents (or worksheets).

The Screenshots below should be pretty self-explanatory and demonstrate what i mean.









What do you think?

It is a good idea. It's so good that, in fact, we used to have this. We used to have a first start template that explained the gui. However, it was very hard to maintain and impossible to translate. However, that was also because I was trying to do everything there -- if we can get good tutorial templates & keep them up to date, I would not mind having them in Krita.

Would be nice if they included some attractive art, too, maybe some cats explaining stuff?

Cats would be awesome!

It is not easy to set the focus on the essentials.. i just started to write down a first idea of a document structure and ended with 5 parts a´ 6 Layers.. Hmmm, no that's not what i had on my mind yesterday. I guess, for now, it would be good to create one first steps document containing the most important informations (having the FAQ in mind) to draw the attention to the right directions.

I think explaining UI Elements and Settings is important to have a base for learning via exploration. Some additional thoughts:

- At the end of the document could be a layer with References: Where to search for further information's
- Maybe a layer containing the most important shortcuts

-> Here is another example of how we can use interactive learning:


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Final Steps:


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At the weekend i have time to gather some more ideas, or i can do some other stuff, to help bringing this on a way.