Hi, New user to the forum needing help getting krita to work properly on my surface pro 4.

I have had issues with pressure sensitivity since installing krita. Iasked around on reddit firstly and I have installed the recommended drivers that most solutions online suggest, staring with the recomendations in the krita tutorials/help documentation. At some point I did have pressure sensitivity working in Krita but this caused problems with my display resolution. In fixing my display resolution I some how lost pressure sensitivity again.

Someone suggested I install the Photoshop trial as that had fixed there problems but not for me. Pressure sensitivity app resolution, pen alignment etc is fine in photoshop. But I still have major issues in Krita.

My current problem is that I now do not have any brush strokes when i try to paint with either the brush or pencil tools. I can make marks on the canvas using shapes my pen is aligned correctly on the canvas, I can select and use lasoo. I currently do not now if the pressure sensitivity is fixed as I have no tool to make pressure sensitive marks.

I have tried resetting brush settings to defaults but that has not helped. I am not sure what is the best information to provide to help solve this problems but I will answer anything and everything to the best of my knowledge.

TLDR: after lots of messing about to get pressure sensitivity working, my brush/ pencil tools are not making marks everything else works fine. Any ideas how I get my brush tool to work again?

TIA!

Edit: I have debug veiwer installed but have no idea what all the codes mean

Update: I found I can use the calligraphy pen to draw. after drawing on the canvas with the pen too if i try to draw with brush/pencil, l I get a message saying "The brush tool cannot draw on this layer. Please select a paint layer or mask"

Hi Martin, it sounds like brushes are registering on a different layer, or a different type of layer (vector?) is active. I'm new to Krita myself, but if you just look at the layers panel (you can be able to view it by mousing over 'Dockers', on the 'Settings' menu, to see if you have 'Layers' viewable), then you can check which layer and type of layer you're working on by looking at the layers panel (you can drag and place it where you wish; I think mine automatically placed alongside brush presets). There's a little eye to the left of each layer which makes a layer visible (white dot) or not (empty). That might give you some clues about what kind of layer is active, too. I know absolutely nothing about different kinds of layers, lol, so I'm sure someone experienced with Krita will be able to answer that. as well as any Surface 4 solutions. When I was on Windows, usually making sure the driver [mine was for a different tablet display] is entirely removed, from anywhere on the system, then unplugging the device, reinstalling drivers, and plugging the device in again, fixed a lot.

I'd first try adding a new normal layer, on top of whatever is there and not brush-ready, and see what happens. Make sure 'Tool Options' is viewable too, via 'Dockers', as that could give some clues too ['Tool Options' auto-places in the same brushes/layers panel also, I think].