Hi, can anyone point me to a good tutorial for absolute beginners in Krita? Sometimes I grab a brush and try to paint, but it won't do anything. I've got a blue color selected, and it works with some brushes, but it doesn't with other brushes, yet I see they're painting, because when the brush crosses paths with a path that I made with a different brush, it's erasing the blue.
I can't seem to figure out the text tool either.
I've looked around on Youtube, but I'm either finding non relevant info, or no info I want on beginner's tutorials. Also trying to avoid a tut that explains for 10 minutes how to open a new document, lol!
Is youtube not the place to find videos on Krita?

Thanks!

You took a preset for the tangent normal brush engine. That is a very specialized brush engine. Use another preset. Check http://davidrevoy.com/categorie17/tutorials-beginner for beginner's tutorials.

Ok thanks!

I can't see the mouse on the screen when I have a brush picked - why is that? I can't tell where I'm at to do anything......I can only see the mouse reappear when I hover over the toolbox area and other docked windows.

When I have the circle or square tool picked, and go to draw something, I can't see the shapes drawn in real time, so if I wanted to make them a certain size, I have no idea where to stop. The drawings show up around 3 minutes later. I think something is reaaallly wrong

https://docs.krita.org/KritaFAQ#Krita_s ... _Intel_GPU

I'm sorry, am I in the wrong forum? Or website to ask basic questions? Is there only one person here?

Sending me to the user manual is not what I asked and it does not seem to have anything on """lag"""

Your problem isn't "lag" -- it's a bug in your display driver. The link I gave explained how to enable the Angle/Direct3D canvas renderer instead of the opengl one. That will fix that issue.

Your first post was about the tangent normal brush, a brush engine you obviously do not need: I gave a link to the manual so you could learn why it exists and what it is for.

If your questions are basic, it would be good to first check the manual and the faq to see if those documents answer your questions: this is an open source project and not some commercial company with paid support staff.

maisiec wrote:I'm sorry, am I in the wrong forum? Or website to ask basic questions? Is there only one person here?

Sending me to the user manual is not what I asked and it does not seem to have anything on """lag"""

If you find the manual difficult to grasp, you probably need to learn the basics of digital painting? (sorry if I am wrong) and from there the basics of krita painting, If you just want to share/learn from other users experience/comments that are less technical I would suggest to joint either the G+ group or the Facebook one, mind you, you got lucky here to get the answers from the main person behind Krita

https://www.facebook.com/groups/883585008407522/

https://plus.google.com/communities/100 ... 2341459486

Ok that explains it Boudewijn - I was trying to figure out what's happening - and yes Quiralta I am a beginner - the fb group seems very exclusive, I was going to join it, but did not because of the questions. Have no idea how I just became a member 7 minutes ago because I did not go through with submitting a request. Strange! Haven't checked the google group yet.........I will after work..........thank you.

Most of the videos I've watched seem to be of people who are zooming around krita - they're total experts, lol..........

I did not find this solution in the user manual, I found it elsewhere: "untick canvas graphics acceleration" - one simple sentence.

It's in the faq: and if you don't have the option to choose between opengl and angle/direct3d, you probably don't have a recent enough version.