I have a black and white vector image I want to paint in Krita. What would be the best way to separate this file into layers for painting from here out? Do I need to trace new lines over the existing in a new layer? Or can I somehow separate the image for painting and layering purposes? I am really new to Krita.

fishwhistler wrote:I have a black and white vector image I want to paint in Krita. What would be the best way to separate this file into layers for painting from here out? Do I need to trace new lines over the existing in a new layer? Or can I somehow separate the image for painting and layering purposes? I am really new to Krita.

I understand that you have an svg file that you need to import in Krita preserving the layer stack.

That would be great, but I guess it's not currently possible.
For what I know, Krita disregards the layer structure and instead collects all the objects in one single vector layer.

Recreating the layer stack order manually in Krita it's of course possible, but that would require a lot of repeating tasks and it would be draining.
Maybe a python script can do that automatically?

However, once you have imported the image in Krita, you can always do (main menu >) "Layer > Split > Split Layer..." (it will "Split the layer into given color fields" ). It will split your image in different layers by shades of colors.

... from there, you can then paint on different parts of the image by simply activating their corresponding layers ("R" + click on canvas to activate their layers).