The Krita Handbook
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The Krita Handbook

Boudewijn Rempt

Casper Boemann

Cyrille Berger

Sander Koning

Revision 1.5.0 (2006-01-31)

Legal Notice

Krita is part of the KOffice package. Krita is a photo retouching, image editing application, but above all, a paint application that will allow you to create original art on your computer as if you were working with paint and brushes, pencils, pen and ink — or, at least, it will one day. We are continually working on extending Krita and making it better in every respect.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
What is Krita?
Key features
Color management
Image formats
About this manual
About the application maintainer
2. Tutorial
Starting to know Krita
A Small selections and layers tutorial
Quick start guides
Crop an area and save it
Draw a rectangle on your picture
3. Layers
Background information on layers
Adjustment Layers
Adjustment Layers and selections
A note on projections
4. Selections
Making a selection
Painting your selection
Unselecting
Making a new selection
Selecting a contiguous area (magic wand)
Selecting similar colors
Inverting the selection
5. Filters
The Bumpmap filter
The Edge Detection filters
The Emboss filters
The Gaussian Blur filter
The Invert filter
The Mean Removal filter
The Oilpaint filter
The Pixelize filter
The Raindrops filter
The Round Corners filter
The Sharpen filter
The Simple Noise Reduction filter
The Small Tiles filter
6. Colorspaces
Introduction to colorspaces
What is a colorspace?
Available colorspaces
The RGB color models
The CMYK color model
The Lab color model
The LMS color model
The GRAY color model
7. Command Reference
Menus
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Image Menu
The Layer Menu
The Select Menu
The Filter Menu
The Scripts Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
Toolbars
The File Toolbar
The Edit Toolbar
The Navigation Toolbar
The Krita Toolbar
The Brushes and Stuff Toolbar
Palettes
The Control box palette
The Colors palette
The Layers palette
Dialogs
Dialogs for working with images
Dialogs for working with layers
Dialogs for working with filters
Miscellaneous dialogs
8. Settings
The Preferences dialog
The General section
The Display section
The Color Management section
The Performance section
The Tablet section
The Grid section
9. Scripting
Variables in the Krosskritacore module
Functions in the Krosskritacore module
Descriptions and function lists for various objects in Krosskritacore
Resources
10. Developer's information
11. Questions and Answers
12. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain Krita
Requirements
Compilation and Installation
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