Hi everyone

Newbie here. I just started using Krita on Linux (will maybe windows too) ... come from photoshop ... got few queries please, if anyone up to educate me some.

1. I noticed when working with Krita, there's the main image (whether jpeg, psd, etc) or Krita file ... but then along side it, there's another "green" file (maybe just green on my chosen desktop, probably) with the same name created wen ever a new file in Krita is started ... I'm totally assuming this is some "working" file, maybe a temp file, maybe ... ?
Either way, is there any way to hide this file when working with Krita, or having the file work in a different directory to the actual files being for Krita? Reason being is I often have big image file projects, and having this "extra" Krita file interrupts the layout and workflow and often makes things just a little bit difficult.

2. I opened a few different image formats into Krita, similarly as I would have in Photoshop ... example, jpegs or PSD's opening up and editing and then wanting to save it as a different format (example, as a native Krita file, or as a tiff, or from a jpeg to a PSD etc ... However, I've discovered that there is no options to "save as" when opening and editing those image file types ... the only time one can chose "save as" and to a different format, is with using only Krita files itself. Is this normal, am I doing something wrong, or is this a limitation on "save as" for Krita?

3. I know there are all sorts of wonderful tools to use in Krita ... but was wondering if there are any very simple shortcuts than can be used with the wacom tablet via shift, control, alt or any other ... that can do specifically things like ... straight line with a normal brush pen, like in photoshop. That was a great discovery in photoshop when I learnt that ... taking a normal paint brush and just hold a specific key would give one specific angle, or a straight line to any angle , etc etc ...
I'm wondering if there are any of those type "special key/pen/brush shortcuts" that one use to do things such as that?

4. Last query for now ... "scratch disc"/swap files ...
I'm running a 240gig SSD and a 7200rpm HDD on my laptop ... I installed OS and apps on the SSD.
First query regarding this (and I have no doubt you've been asked this many times before) ... where is best place to store have the swap files? From what I know and been told, if one has only one SSD with OS on, then one shouldnt' have scratch swap on there because it would deteriorate the SSD very fast ... or so I've been told ... but then if it writes to HDD, I'm assuming that would effect performance? ( only have just under 8 gig RAM so very limiting machine.
Also, if one want s to have the swap on a separate disc ... how to point it there? Because in the settings, no other disc drives show other than the main one that Krita is installed on.

I'm still very new to Krita, lots to learn.

That's a lot of questions

First, the manual is very well written and it's here: https://docs.krita.org/en/

Second, people in this forum will be happy to give help and advice but the main focus of help/advice nowadays is a newer forum:
https://krita-artists.org/
It's best to ask for advice there as a distinct topic about a particular aspect of operation, not an "I need to know all this" sort of thing.

Third, I'd be happy to answer our questions as best I can but not at the moment.

However, for your 4.- location of the HDD on your Linux system, any hard drive apart from the one your system is running from will be mounted in the root file system somewhere.
This may be done as a boot time mount into a specific folder as specified in the /etc/fstab file, or it may have gone in as /media{your-username}/drive-label (whatever the drive label is). In your File Manger, you should be able to see it in the list of Devices and whether it's mounted or not. If it's not mounted and you right-click mount it then it'll go into the /media folder as noted above. If it is mounted after boot up then whoever set up the system for you should know which folder it's been mounted in, which will probably be in your home folder somewhere so that you can use it.

ahabgreybeard wrote:That's a lot of questions

First, the manual is very well written and it's here: https://docs.krita.org/en/

Second, people in this forum will be happy to give help and advice but the main focus of help/advice nowadays is a newer forum:
https://krita-artists.org/
It's best to ask for advice there as a distinct topic about a particular aspect of operation, not an "I need to know all this" sort of thing.

Third, I'd be happy to answer our questions as best I can but not at the moment.

However, for your 4.- location of the HDD on your Linux system, any hard drive apart from the one your system is running from will be mounted in the root file system somewhere.
This may be done as a boot time mount into a specific folder as specified in the /etc/fstab file, or it may have gone in as /media{your-username}/drive-label (whatever the drive label is). In your File Manger, you should be able to see it in the list of Devices and whether it's mounted or not. If it's not mounted and you right-click mount it then it'll go into the /media folder as noted above. If it is mounted after boot up then whoever set up the system for you should know which folder it's been mounted in, which will probably be in your home folder somewhere so that you can use it.

Hey there, thanks for taking the time to respond anyway ... yeah I had a load on my mind so thought I'd jot it down before I forget..
Checkout new Krita forum, very nice, I can see why everyone is there.

Thanks for the advice regarding scratch/swap ... yes I got it loading/mounting at start up, it shows in Dolphin browser, but not when I try to chose a swap location from within Krita.... I'm new to Linux as well, so learning as I go along. Will have a look in file manager in root and see if I can find it.

Shot