I just downloaded Krita (and really like it). I've been experimenting with the various features (and jumping all over the manual and interned tutorials) but I can't figure out if the program allows me to stroke a vector path I draw with any of the brushes (like in Adobe Illustrator). I love the brushes that come with the program and would like to be able to use them to stroke vector paths instead of just using them freehand.

All the tools ranging from the "Freehand Brush Tool" to the "Multibrush Tool", produce a brush stroke if you're on a "Paint" layer (raster). But for shapes residing on a vector layer, there's an action to perform which, even so, produces a new Paint layer with your brush stroke. To clarify:

1. On a Paint layer: just create your shape and the current brush will be used to stroke its edges.
2. On a Vector layer: select your shape and go to (Menu) > Edit > Stroke selected shapes. It'll stroke the selected shape with your current brush preset but on a new Paint layer.

mvowada wrote:All the tools ranging from the "Freehand Brush Tool" to the "Multibrush Tool", produce a brush stroke if you're on a "Paint" layer (raster). But for shapes residing on a vector layer, there's an action to perform which, even so, produces a new Paint layer with your brush stroke. To clarify:

1. On a Paint layer: just create your shape and the current brush will be used to stroke its edges.
2. On a Vector layer: select your shape and go to (Menu) > Edit > Stroke selected shapes. It'll stroke the selected shape with your current brush preset but on a new Paint layer.

Thanks. I knew there had to be a way to do it for vector layers. It was driving me nuts.