Hi there!

I love using Krita. Recently I tried painting a new illustration in Krita at 600 ppi and a rather large scale. I found That Krita had a significant delay refreshing the screen or panning. I tried painting the same file on multiple laptops and got the same result. Now I don't have the greatest graphics card in any of them. One of the laptops has 16GB of RAM. To finish the work, I brought the size down to 300 ppi.

For most of my work I have been using my iPad Pro. I wanted to get back to using Krita regularly in my work. Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone know what is a good baseline for specs for working in Krita. I couldn't find them on the site.

Thanks in advance! Any knowledge would be greatly appreciated! Below is the piece I painted!

Stephen

1. Ensure that graphics acceleration works in settings->configure Krita->display.
2. Check whether turning view->Instant Preview on or off makes a difference. From other reports it seems to be that right now IP makes drawing fast, but navigating not so much, while turning it off speeds up navigation but slows down drawing. We're not sure what we can do about this yet.

I still believe (strongly) that a good processor beats any other component in the computer, obviously, a good processor + good gpu + good ram is much better combination. What I'm trying to say is that ram or gpu along can't do much without a good "brain" to process the tasks, this is for performance only, there is still the fact that regardless of performance a bad gpu driver (even on good gpu's) can render things slow or choppy on the screen.

Its been a while since I don't "shop" for pc or components, but few years back when I built my pc, I realized by comparison that a good "gaming" box was also a good graphic design one, not necessarily the higher end, but rather the entry-mid level ones.

Another point is with the final print, at 600 dpi, I'm thinking you planing on doing banners or wall large prints, like 80 inches or more per side? anything under would be an "overkill", I recently print some 10x12, and realize how picky I was on my monitor:D, looking at the prints I realized they come much better than I thought, I never use more than 300dpi, my regular working canvases are 5000px per side or 5000 x 7000. Just some thoughts

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure whether modern color printers can at all handle 600 dpi for color (I think that's only possible for black and white right now), but maybe Stephen has a particular workflow that requires that resolution, so who am I to judge.

TheraHedwig wrote:Yeah, I wasn't quite sure whether modern color printers can at all handle 600 dpi for color (I think that's only possible for black and white right now), but maybe Stephen has a particular workflow that requires that resolution, so who am I to judge.

My comment was mostly based on the picture posted (nice illustration by the way), for that size/purpose I don't think going beyond 300dpi does any impact, whether on print or on digital. But just like you, I'm uncertain of the final format/goal of his artwork. My point is that he probably is limiting his workflow by overdoing the dpi.

Hi there! Thanks so much for the suggestions! I'll definitely go in and tinker with the settings and see if that helps.

I am working at 600dpi so that I can make poster-sized art with the same art. So far I have done postcards, prints, notebooks and smaller stuff for the event. It's when I get into making large image wraps for t-shirts and posters. I can upscale the image and then adjust if areas are soft.

I'm working with a pretty decent i5 processor. I thought that it must be the graphics card, bc I have never invested in an expensive one.

Thanks again for your help. I'll let you know if there's a difference!

S:)

Ah, I've just found this question after posting my own but I'd like to ask here too if that's okay. Being brand new to digital art I'd like to know if can I make really large - say 60cmx330cm - simple posters on Krita? I'd like to replace Inkscape with Krita and use my new tablet for it. The poster(s) wouldn't be detailed pictures, more like for grammar points using line drawings, stick figures, maybe with some colour, and will be displayed on my English boards at school. I have access to a large printer at school just not sure if large posters are doable.

I've been making these posters on Inkscape...

https://alt-english-board.dudaone.com/

..but would like to do it in a more freehand and organic style.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.