Hi. I've been using krita for some days now but there's some things i miss from other programs that i couldn't find on Krita, and i don't know if they are present or i just couldn't find them.
I can't find the option to press one of the pen's buttons when i want to use another brush or the eraser. All i found was a shortcut to enable eraser mode but that doesn't help since it doesn't fully erase the lines, plus the brush size stays the same as the brush i was previously using ant that's kinda annoying. I was searching for an option to set the eraser brush when i press a pen button. Also i can't find a way to rotate the view by small amounts while drawing, all i found was the 90º option, but it sometimes doesn't help.

Thanks for your patience.

dandrade wrote:I can't find the option to press one of the pen's buttons when i want to use another brush or the eraser. All i found was a shortcut to enable eraser mode but that doesn't help since it doesn't fully erase the lines, plus the brush size stays the same as the brush i was previously using ant that's kinda annoying. I was searching for an option to set the eraser brush when i press a pen button.

Use the ten brushes script to assign a shortcut to an eraser preset, and bind that shortcut to your stylus button. Or bind the / to the button, which switches between the current and the last used preset.

dandrade wrote:Also i can't find a way to rotate the view by small amounts while drawing, all i found was the 90º option, but it sometimes doesn't help.

Use ctrl+[ or 4, ctrl+] or 6, and 5 to reset the canvas. Or use the rotation ring in the popup palette. Or shift-space + mouse left/right.

If you're new from krita and have used either Photoshop or Paint Tool Sai, check the guides: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/i ... tware.html

The documentation and User Manual is very comprehensive and well written so it would be helpful for you:

https://docs.krita.org/en/

The shortcut for setting the eraser mode is the 'E' key which toggles the setting. You might try configuring your pen buttons or tablet buttons to do that to see if it's a good thing for you. (As well as boudewijn's suggestions.)

The eraser mode changes the brush to an eraser with all the characteristics of the brush that you're using, including texture, opacity, smudging, etc. There are a variety of erasers with different characteristics available in the Brush Presets docker and any eraser that you use will be in the Brush Preset History docker after you use it. Arranging these dockers (and storing the layout as a custom Workspace) is one of the aspects of learning how to use krita.

https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/g ... ation.html

Another quick way to get the brush/eraser you want is to have them on the pop-up palette. When you right-click the canvas you get the pop-up palette. You can have any set of brushes on here that have been defined by tag names in the Brush Preset docker. So, you can have your own custom brush set on this that you can quickly swap out for another custom brush set or any of the predefined tag-named brushes. All this is customisable and adjustable and so needs time to learn and get used to. It's very much worth the effort because it's a very flexible and adjustable system.

The pop-up palette has a small dot at the top. This can be click-dragged around the circle to give you fine rotation control of the canvas.

As you can see from boudewijn's recent reply, there are many ways of getting the effect and result that you want. It's a question of learning them and setting krita up to work for you in a way that feels right for you.

Good luck and ask here in the forum if you have any problems.

I got everything working now, thanks a lot for the help!!