I just wanted to try out Krita so I made a small comic. The thing is I am completely new to Linux (and I downloaded Ubuntu), completely, and as of yet I'm totally smittened with it. It took me a while looking around at all the brilliant illustration programs available until I found Krita (since I'm Swedish the name kinda sticks out) and it is just spot on so far. Just what I wanted.

So this is my face when using Ubuntu the last three days.


1= finding Linux and all the free and great features. 2= "wtf is "terminal" and whaddaya mean "commands"?" 3= I tried downloading Alchemy and couldn't start it 4= read some "handy advice" that didn't do anything 5= Found krita

I work as a freelance illustrator mostly for magazines - I sometimes do some layout'ish work aswell - and I'm doing a book cover at the moment for a client. My plan (read "hopes") is that I will somehow be able to do it all in Gimp/Krita/Scribus (although the last one is driving me insane) and that way kick my adobe habit. My intention is that I will somehow figure out where to post feed-back here in the future aswell as stupid questions (about whether to switch to Linux Mint or stick with Unity and how to use that damn terminal and so on)

Cheers all (developers, programmers and feed-back people)! Your sweeping me off my feet here

... oh and my nose isn't really green ... I don't have some wierd fungal infection or anything.

Hi, welcome to Krita (and to Linux )

Fun comics panel, very … expressive!

This forum is a good place to post feedback, or you can come on irc channel #krita on freenode.
Also if you find some bugs, the bug-tracker is the right place to report them: https://bugs.kde.org/

See you around.

Thank you.

Basicly what I really need is to find the willpower to install Linux on my work laptop... its just... I need that Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign to work and I'm just not brave enough to let go for the moment and take that final plunge
(also I have steam running on it and if I don't get to play Counter Strike Global Offensive I will probably die of that green fungii problem (trying wildly to figure out when Steam will be released in full for Linux))

The things I noticed that I had some problems with (which may just be something I could fix in the settings) was essentially:
- not being able to select an entire layer from the layer panel with something like a ctrl+click of the layer image. (I found the select opaque thing which was great but that teeny tiny short-cut helped in the long run)
- not being able to fiddle with the colours of a layer (like adding a texture file to the layer, ctrl+click the layer image, inverse selection and delete everything not hanging over the colours in that layer and THEN fiddle with the colour settings of the texture layer until it resembled the colours I wanted - which is something I do ALLOT when drawing editorials (that has to be done double-quick))
- not being able to after a Transform hit ENTER and instead had to scroll down in the tool window to the little butting saying "apply"
- the text thing but I noticed allot of people had already mentioned on it and to be honest I don't use it that much.

But, like I said, a large part of these may just be me being a complete Krita-virgin and not really knowing what I'm doing

Also, just to have it said, this is a brilliant program and one of the reasons why I didn't just switch back to windows and Adobe CS. Just to have that said. Cheers again!

Ha! Illustrates my experience with Linux COMPLETELY! Good stuff.

It should be possible to confirm a transform with enter. Might be that you are using a version where that is broken.

Artmessiah: Thank you. Yeah it seems allot of share the same feelings concerning Ubuntu.

Slangkamp: Sry I should have said: I use Krita 2.5 within Ubuntu Unity 12.04 LTS.

2.5.2, to be released this week, will have a fix for the Enter key problem in the transform tool.

So true lovely comic

Deevad: Thank you! (btw ive been checking out your stuff on deviant art and its brilliant!)

The update of my Linux adventure so far, made kinda like a personal pledge that for some upcoming book-cover-work (with some further layout involved) do it only in Gimp/Krita/Scribus/Inkscape... I may be trying to drown myself in a puddle with this, but if it works - as I see it - I've proven to myself I don't need Adobe at all!

I still have not figured out how you could change the colour (hue/saturation/lightness) of an entire layer - for those texture layers I need for editorial work - so if anyone knows how to do that (or if its possible) I would be a very happy little camper.

boudewijn: ok cool! How do you update Krita btw? Do you have to remove and reinstall or is there some magical techno-sorcerer way?
(I worked some in Krita yesterday and I want to restate: cheers! Also not that I have allot of cash (I'm a freelance illustrator for heavens sake) but is there someway to throw some tiny amounts of money at Krita developers? I can probably only afford donating enough for about six beers but then six of you would atleast have a mild buzz... I want to support this in some good way)

Ubuntu will have updated packages in the backports ppa, then the system should offer you the update when it becomes available.

A donation will be welcome, in fact, krita actually uses donations to sponsor development, and every small bit makes the total amount of sponsored work possible just a little bit bigger.

Colors can be change over Filters->adjust->... and then you can choose.

boudewijn: Googled the Krita-donate thing (it was kinda tricky to find) http://www.krita.org/social/item/4-why-donate
I donated, not much, but like I said - perhaps some beers may be covered with that money - you guys are worth more though.

Slangkamp: thanks! Will play around with it.

Edit: I have now played around with it and... thanks again. That solved the last of my problems.