Hello! I was going to report a bug on odd colors of reference images in Krita 4.1.8 (git 0218025). See the screenshot: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xRbm5 ... 8S56IIQGtB So, the images added via Reference Images Tool are all bluish. But when I was trying to save the image to show you, I
found out that I couldn't save it properly. This is what I got when I tried to save the image as a png or jpeg file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bjawD ... fwbi_ja8RV
I'm on Windows 10.

First, there's no 4.1.8 for Windows. That release only exists for Linux, to work around a particular bug in Qt 5.12.x for Linux. Second, are you using canvas acceleration, and if so, opengl or angle? What's your hardware?

Ok. You know better. I'm just copying what Krita says about its version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nVUlk ... U4MMi_4yJs
I'm testing this build: https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... -setup.exe
I do use canvas acceleration. It's Direct3D 11 via Angle. My hardware is GeForce GTX 1060 6Gb.

boudewijn wrote:First, there's no 4.1.8 for Windows. That release only exists for Linux, to work around a particular bug in Qt 5.12.x for Linux. Second, are you using canvas acceleration, and if so, opengl or angle? What's your hardware?

And why would you be using a nightly build? That is not a released version of Krita.

First, to have a newer version of Krita with some fixed bugs which have been reported earlier (like Ctrl + T is ambiguous shortcut by default in 4.1.7), and, secondly, to help find new bugs

boudewijn wrote:And why would you be using a nightly build? That is not a released version of Krita.

I'd like to make four points:

1. The build you downloaded is from the 'Krita Plus' Krita-Stable-Windows_Build pipeline and should be the latest bug-fixed 4.1.7 verison. For some reason, it identifies itself as a 4.1.8 version. This is probably an administrative confusion that will be fixed in the near future.

2. When using this build, the reference images are colour distorted when using Angle, but not when using Open GL. As far as I can see, from a simple experiment, the Red and Blue channels on the reference images are swapped over. This does not happen with the standard 4.1.7 version.
Edit: P.S. It also happens with the latest 4.2.0 pre-alpha build https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... 2a79f7.zip
I've no idea what Angle is about so comment from someone who does know would be helpful.

3. If you're trying out and testing Windows builds, I'd suggest that you download the .zip standalone package and run it from -/bin/krita.exe so as not to install over your existing version installation. If you try the 4.2.0 pre-alpha builds then you might want to be cautious/paranoid and backup your config files and even your entire resources folder.

4. I had no problem taking a correct screenshot with the standard Windows utility (Cntrl+Shift+Print). Have you tried this with other versions of krita and with other applications?

Hello! Thank you for your points! I have been searching for a right way to test the latest stable Krita release for Windows. So, I decided to report some bugs I encountered
using a version called "Daily build that only contain bug fixes on top of the stable version". Well, may be it is just a bit confusing name for those builds. May be it's for developers only... I'm not one. Regarding point 4 - I had no problem taking screenshot on Windows either. The problem was Krita saving my jpg/png file cropped in a weird way: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bjawD ... fwbi_ja8RV I didn't crop this picture - Krita did.

ahabgreybeard wrote:I'd like to make four points:

1. The build you downloaded is from the 'Krita Plus' Krita-Stable-Windows_Build pipeline and should be the latest bug-fixed 4.1.7 verison. For some reason, it identifies itself as a 4.1.8 version. This is probably an administrative confusion that will be fixed in the near future.

2. When using this build, the reference images are colour distorted when using Angle, but not when using Open GL. As far as I can see, from a simple experiment, the Red and Blue channels on the reference images are swapped over. This does not happen with the standard 4.1.7 version.
Edit: P.S. It also happens with the latest 4.2.0 pre-alpha build https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... 2a79f7.zip
I've no idea what Angle is about so comment from someone who does know would be helpful.

3. If you're trying out and testing Windows builds, I'd suggest that you download the .zip standalone package and run it from -/bin/krita.exe so as not to install over your existing version installation. If you try the 4.2.0 pre-alpha builds then you might want to be cautious/paranoid and backup your config files and even your entire resources folder.

4. I had no problem taking a correct screenshot with the standard Windows utility (Cntrl+Shift+Print). Have you tried this with other versions of krita and with other applications?

"Daily build(s) that only contain bug fixes on top of the stable version" is the description of that build on the download website. The name of the build on the website is 'Krita Plus'. According to its filename, 'krita-nightly-x64-v4.1.7.101-37-g0218025b17' it's a 4.1.7.101 build and it is the one you can check/test/use if you're interested in the latest stable build. You've checked/used/tested it and found a problem and that's a good thing. The next stage is to make a formal bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/

Bug reporting is an important and useful activity but it's best to discuss possible bugs here on the forum before making a formal report. It's also important to check the latest build in case a bug has been fixed. You can and should also check existing krita bugs (using the Search facility) to see if it has already been reported.

Regarding my point-4, I made a wrong assumption because your image file is called 'screenshot.png'. If you have a Reference Image on the screen, krita does not Save or Export that to .png or .jpg because it's not part of the krita image, it's a separate item like a floating tool/docker. It's only stored if you Save as a .kra file. The only way you can post a picture of the Reference Image as seen on the canvas is if you take a screenshot (which is what I thought you'd done and something that I have no problem with).

OMG! I actually didn't think that Krita is not supposed to save my reference image as a normal layer. Obviously, not a bug at all:-)

ahabgreybeard wrote:"Daily build(s) that only contain bug fixes on top of the stable version" is the description of that build on the download website. The name of the build on the website is 'Krita Plus'. According to its filename, 'krita-nightly-x64-v4.1.7.101-37-g0218025b17' it's a 4.1.7.101 build and it is the one you can check/test/use if you're interested in the latest stable build. You've checked/used/tested it and found a problem and that's a good thing. The next stage is to make a formal bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/

Bug reporting is an important and useful activity but it's best to discuss possible bugs here on the forum before making a formal report. It's also important to check the latest build in case a bug has been fixed. You can and should also check existing krita bugs (using the Search facility) to see if it has already been reported.

Regarding my point-4, I made a wrong assumption because your image file is called 'screenshot.png'. If you have a Reference Image on the screen, krita does not Save or Export that to .png or .jpg because it's not part of the krita image, it's a separate item like a floating tool/docker. It's only stored if you Save as a .kra file. The only way you can post a picture of the Reference Image as seen on the canvas is if you take a screenshot (which is what I thought you'd done and something that I have no problem with).

I'm glad we cleared that up. This is why it's a good idea to discuss possible bugs on the forum first

All you need to do now is check if the Reference Image colour distortion bug is still present in the latest build and that it hasn't already been reported as a bug, then you can make a bug report for it.

P.S. In future, it would be better to post this type of topic in the General Help or the Krita On Windows sub-forum.

Thank you

ahabgreybeard wrote:I'm glad we cleared that up. This is why it's a good idea to discuss possible bugs on the forum first

All you need to do now is check if the Reference Image colour distortion bug is still present in the latest build and that it hasn't already been reported as a bug, then you can make a bug report for it.

P.S. In future, it would be better to post this type of topic in the General Help or the Krita On Windows sub-forum.