I want to draw with a certain brush size and type and erase with a different brush size and type without having to hunt and peck for particular brushes each time. That is almost doubling the amount of work I have to do just to draw.

Example Problem: Use black, draw, toggle color to white, change brush, erase, toggle color to black, change brush, draw.

How can I do it like photoshop where each tool, brush and eraser, has its own brush settings?

If you select a particular brush preset from the Brush Preset docker or the Brush Preset History Docker then adjust its size using the Size slider on the Toolbar at the top of the screen, that size change will be remembered for the rest of your krita session. So any brush can be set to any size and will stay at that size until you restart krita. After a restart, all brushes will be at their default sizes as set in the Brush Editor. These default sizes can be changed by using the Brush Editor to create your own customised brush. The entire systen is very flexible and can be personalised to your requirements.

As for 'hunting and pecking' to choose and select a brush, there are other ways of selecting brushes such as using the Ten Brushes script which is in Tools -> Script -> Ten Brushes and also using the popup palette that you get by right clicking on the canvas. The display of brushes on the canvas can be customised by the use of 'tags', which is a separate subject area.

All this is decribed in the manual: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual.html which has good Search facilities.

From your post, I get the impression that you're 'erasing' by painting in white over previously painted black paint. If so, this is not the best way to erase. There are brush presets that are specifically intended for erasing (called Erasers) and there is the Erase mode that can be used with any brush. All this is described in the manual.

Regarding the manual, the part that should be the most relevant for you: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/i ... oshop.html

Krita has a bit of paradigm shift in some areas so I get that it takes some adjustments. I am not sure why you need to use white to erase... in general for people that want brush/eraser behaviour different from eraser mode I suggest using Ten Brushes script (Tools -> Ten Brushes) with 1 being the brush and 2 being the eraser, or using '\' as a "get me last preset" command or using Brush Presets History. You can save your favourite brush with Erase blending mode and then make sure it's always handy when you need an eraser.

Also in Brush Presets docker you can set up tags (I would advise you to use your own newly created tags) and then you just need to filter the brushes to only this tag (use the combobox on top of the docker). You can also just find the preset by its name: start writing in the textbox below and it will show you all the brushes that has this text in their preset names. For example "pencil" will find you a few pencil presets and "eraser" will find you erasers (of course the brush preset needs to be called accordingly for it to work, but all in the default brush set are.)

I'm also completely confused by the eraser toggle mode. Coming from Photoshop I'm used to have any brush I want while having the same eraser no matter how often I switch the brush. Not being able to do that costs a lot of time and is a show stopper.

Krita has three different types of eraser presets as default and you can choose them and adjust their size and switch back to them at any time via the Brush Preset History docker.
You can also set up a particular keyboard shortcut to select any brush or eraser for immediate use.

This was explained by Tymond in the post above yours. And by me in the post before that. And by me again here.

ahabgreybeard wrote:Krita has three different types of eraser presets as default and you can choose them and adjust their size and switch back to them at any time via the Brush Preset History docker.
You can also set up a particular keyboard shortcut to select any brush or eraser for immediate use.

This was explained by Tymond in the post above yours. And by me in the post before that. And by me again here.

I've read the previous posts but none of them offers a solution that matches the way that other programs incorporate the eraser tool. It's not only about muscle memory. Other programs have their pros and cons but the eraser tool is a thing that I never had issues with and though, that it needs to be different. If so, one should be able to opt-in and not being forced to learn a new way for such a basic tool. Krita has a great brush engine and even some other tools are better implemented than in similar programs. But a switch from one program to another one should be smooth and not bumpy. In the end most users will still have to use the programs side by side and at least the basic workflow should be coherent.

The best solution would have been to have the classical eraser tool that we all are used to and the additional option to have the "eraser toggle" that uses the current brush settings for the eraser. Everybody would be happy.

Cheers.

Sorry, but you appear to be laboring under the illusion that we're making Krita as an alternative for people who want to stop using Photoshop; but that's just not the case. We're making Krita because we think we're making a great painting application.

Cloning Photoshop would take so much time and effort that we wouldn't be able to get down to our real goal, so we're not even paying much attention to Photoshop. Which is kind of vindicated since the latest versions of Photoshop have cloned a lot of things we pioneered...

boudewijn wrote:Sorry, but you appear to be laboring under the illusion that we're making Krita as an alternative for people who want to stop using Photoshop; but that's just not the case. We're making Krita because we think we're making a great painting application.

Cloning Photoshop would take so much time and effort that we wouldn't be able to get down to our real goal, so we're not even paying much attention to Photoshop. Which is kind of vindicated since the latest versions of Photoshop have cloned a lot of things we pioneered...

I'm not even starting to respond to this at the depth I should, dismantling all its fallacies and wrong assumptions. But let me just give you this advice (and I don't even think I should have to). Being innovative is fine - even favorable, but if you really want to get to a great product, you should not ignore constructive feedback from users and constantly counter with a defensive (and arguably borderline offensive) behavior. For most if not all users, the reason for feedback is to make Krita a better product and not enjoying it having its flaws.