Hi guys, apologies if I'm not posting this in the right topic. I'm wondering if Krita still needs people to contribute to the user manual? I'm a newly graduated technical writer based in the U.S. and I'd love to help in any way that's needed. Even though I'm still fairly new to Krita itself, I can pick up new technologies quickly and break down technical concepts for non-technical users. I am part of a digital painting group online and Krita comes up often as a recommended painting program.

I am a bit unsure where to start, if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it! Thank you.

Hi,

We have the code and writing of the user manual here: https://invent.kde.org/documentation/docs-krita-org
I did an inventory of what needs improving in 2019, many of which are still relevant places to work on: https://phabricator.kde.org/T10331
(We're moving from phabricator to gitlab, but the tasks are still on phabricator)

Most of our communication is done via irc, specifically #krita on irc.kde.org, but right now it's super quiet.

Help is always welcome, but we might be a little slow due to holidays right now.

If you're still looking for something to start working on, there is something that I would really like to see: a DPI vs canvas size in inches etc. vs canvas size in resolution. People are *really* confused about it, and I haven't have yet found a perfect article that would show all the aspects of it in an easily digestible way.

The idea is easy:
DPI * inches = pixels.
Krita only cares about pixels (so, for example, the performance scales up with bigger canvas sizes in pixels), inches and DPI are only important when you print it out.
If you want to work in Krita, Krita cares about pixels, so if you define the canvas size in inches, you need to provide a DPI number that results in good amount of pixels (and DPI alone doesn't mean anything, you need to add either the pixels size to get inches or inches size to get pixels). The problem is, somehow the internet changed it into "you need to have high DPI to get good resolution" and we get users who make 100x100 pixels canvases with 100000dpi and are confused the resolution is so small (ok, more realistic example: 1920x1080 with 600dpi). Generally the concept is very misunderstood and I would like to have a page that I could link every time someone don't understand it or worse, unknowingly spreads misinformation about it.

The target page would be either FAQ question or a new page in General Concepts (but it's probably a bit too little info to warrant a whole page...). Pictures showing the situation are encouraged - see https://docs.krita.org/en/contributors_ ... philosophy

This should be a good project, I believe, since on one hand it's a simple concept, and on the other hand, one needs skills in explaining things in a clear, concise and easy to understand manner (which means, for example, better than what I did above ).

What do you think about it? (Or maybe you already found something else to help with, using Wolthera's link?)