Folder: Krita: Basic Tutorials

Learn how to use Krita with tutorials for basic operations.

Krita: Selection Tutorials

How to Convert Grayscale to Transparency in Krita

Tutorial: learn how take a grayscale image or layer and make the black color fully transparent and the white fully opaque, or vice-versa, in Krita (version 5.2). In other words, we'll convert lightness into alpha.
How to Use Selections in Krita

This is a serial of tutorials explaining how to use selections in Krita (version 5.2).
How to Add Text in Krita

Two methods to add text in Krita.
How to Add Text in Krita from Inkscape (PNG File Layer Method)

Tutorial: learn how to add text and other vector graphics in Krita (version 5.2) from Inkscape (version 1.3) by exporting an a PNG file from Inkscape and then importing it into Krita as a file layer.
How to Copy-Paste Text from Inkscape into Krita

Tutorial: learn how to copy text and other vector graphics from Inkscape (version 1.3) and paste them in Krita (version 5.2), so that we can quickly create text using Inkscape's powerful text editing and shape-editing tools.
How to Make a Photo Grayscale in Krita

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Tutorial: learn how to make a photo or image grayscale in Krita (version 5.2).
How to Create Complex Non-Destructive Effects in Krita

Tutorial: learn how to create complex non-destructive effects in Krita (version 5.2), using filter layers, filter masks, transform masks, layer styles, clone layers, layer groups, and alpha blend modes.
How to Use the Color Adjustment Curves Filter in Krita

Tutorial: learn how to use the color adjustment filter in Krita (version 5.2). The color adjustment filter is also called "curves" in some image-editing applications.
How to Use the Levels Filter in Krita

Tutorial: learn how to use the "Levels" filter in Krita (version 5.2), which we can use to adjust the brightness and contrast of an image, to quickly change the blackest and whitest pixel of an image, and even to manipulate alpha, saturation, and hue values.
How to Save an Image in Krita

Learn how to correctly save an image in Krita (version 5.2).
How to Open an Image in Krita

Five different ways to open a file in Krita.
How to Add a Filter in Krita

Tutorial, learn the 3 different to add a filter in Krita: destructively with the menubar, and non-destructively with filter masks and filter layers, and their differences.