I've been using Photoshop on Mac with a Wacom tablet for digital painting for years. I can't use my old program with my new Mac computer and am trying to get set up to use Krita instead.

I've got my tablet set up and have figure out how to open up the pressure sensitivity settings. The problem is, it's completely incomprehensible to me. I can make changes to the sensitivity, yes, but I can't figure out how to make the kinds of changes I want. I have no idea how to understand the curves display or how it affects things, and I've tried searching for tutorials/tips for adjusting it, but I can't find anything that makes sense to me. I've been going back and forth trying different configurations for over an hour now, and I barely know more than I did when I started, and it's still not usable for me.

I just... don't even know where to start. I want to have a fairly sensitive brush with good taper to it so I don't get blocky ends to my strokes and can start to get a feel for sketching, but I can't find anything to even give me a place to start with baseline settings.

eas wrote:I've been using Photoshop on Mac with a Wacom tablet for digital painting for years. I can't use my old program with my new Mac computer and am trying to get set up to use Krita instead.

I've got my tablet set up and have figure out how to open up the pressure sensitivity settings. The problem is, it's completely incomprehensible to me. I can make changes to the sensitivity, yes, but I can't figure out how to make the kinds of changes I want. I have no idea how to understand the curves display or how it affects things, and I've tried searching for tutorials/tips for adjusting it, but I can't find anything that makes sense to me. I've been going back and forth trying different configurations for over an hour now, and I barely know more than I did when I started, and it's still not usable for me.

I just... don't even know where to start. I want to have a fairly sensitive brush with good taper to it so I don't get blocky ends to my strokes and can start to get a feel for sketching, but I can't find anything to even give me a place to start with baseline settings.

its just looks complicated at first because Krita has allot of brush personalisation available, but in fact it is still based on the same things, Flow (dynamics of how you stroke the pen), opacity, blending mode per layer and per brush (tool), and pressure
check out how this guy explains his basic line setup, it has some usefull tipps to help you out understand some of the features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PMlGumC10o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qZ19l3HFE

Hi, Why do you want to change pressure sensitivity, it dosen't work? Did you try different brushes and maybe you'll find one that feets your demand...

Thank you, I think those videos are helping me!

I'd tried a whole bunch of brushes, but had been having an issue with being unable to adjust some of the basic ones to give me lines with a smoother taper at the start and finish of strokes, rather than blocky, chunky-looking lines, which I thought was a problem with pressure sensitivity not reading strokes correctly, but I think may have been more a matter of needing to customize brushes to adjust that, rather than responsiveness of pressure sensitivity.

The pressure sensitivity curve is a global adjustment and intended to adjust sensitivity to suit whether you have a 'heavy' or 'light' hand and how much control you prefer at the low and high ends of the pressure range.

To give a controlled taper on a stroke, you can make the brush size be controlled by pressure with a control curve any shape/characteristic you like. The 'quality' of the taper then depends on how well you can control the pressure with your hand.
To give a consistent taper at the start of the stroke, you can have size controlled by distance (no repeat) so it starts off at 0% and goes up to 100% with any taper shape you like according to the transfer curve.
Getting a taper at the end of a stroke is not impossible but it's tricky and of limited use, using time variation of size.