Krita: Basic Tutorials

Folder: Krita: Selection Tutorials

This is the folder version of How to Use Selections in Krita.

Selecting People and Objects in a Photo in Krita

If you're working with photo editing, there are many cases you need to select parts of a photo precisely, specially if you want to remove the background or apply a filter to only part of a photo. Photos are more complex than illustrations, so it's not easy to select just one part of the photo, […]
Combining Selections in Krita

Often, using a selection tool will either select less than everything you want or more than everything you want. By default, using a selection tool again, normally, will deselect the previously selected area and replace it with a new selection. In general, it's possible to control this behavior so we can add or subtract from […]
Deselecting the Selection in Krita

After you did something with a selected area, you'll want to "deselect" it so that future operations apply to the entire canvas again. To do this in Krita, click on Select -> Deselect on the menubar (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+A). Note: in some image editors, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+D instead. The reason "select nothing" is […]
Inverting Selections in Krita

In some cases, we want to apply an operation to the entire area of the canvas EXCEPT one part. This is common when we want to make most of the canvas transparent, or fill it mostly with one color, or apply a filter to most of it. In these cases, it's faster to select the […]
Undoing Selections in Krita

In Krita, changes to the selected area can be undone and redone with Undo and Redo, in other words, they're part of the undo history. In some image editors, this isn't how it works, but in Krita, it is. This means if you selected something wrong, you can Ctrl+Z to revert to the previous selection. […]
Selecting Rectangular Areas in Krita

In some cases, specially when dealing with screenshots, we might want to select a perfectly rectangular area on the canvas. To do that in Krita, we use the rectangular selection tool. All we need to do is to click on the pixel that will be one corner of the rectangle, and drag the mouse cursor […]