Straight lines in krita

kwyjibo

I'm trying to make some tiling textures using krita because it has an awesome wrap mode. Does anyone know a way to get straight lines using the standard brush tool? Something like holding shift to draw a straight line to the last point in photoshop. There's gotta be an easy way to do this...

Krita_Painting

Use 'v' key: https://docs.krita.org/Freehand_Brush_Tool

kwyjibo

Thanks for the reply. I tried to the v thing key but was really hoping for something exactly using the shift key in photoshop. Hopefully it can be added in a future update.

RN

You need to use a different tool. If you use the Line tool (it's right next to the Freehand Brush tool on the toolbar), it draws lines using the Brush Preset that is selected, with dynamics and all, as if you were drawing by hand.
You can hold SHIFT to snap the line to angles, and you can control the pressure of different points on the line by using your stylus as you press and drag to make the line (it makes the line vary thickness). This last feature only works when "Use Sensors" is on in the tool options for the Line tool.

You can also try using the Assistant Tool, it's something that guides the cursor while you're painting with mouse or tablet.
The one you're looking for is the Ruler, it makes a simple line. After you create one or more ruler assistants you can select the brush tool to paint and, in the tool options, no matter the stroke smoothing mode, you can turn on the "Assistant" option and leave it at maximum.
When you start painting your stroke will be constrained to those assistant lines. This should feel more like Photoshop but takes more time to set up.

kwyjibo

Thanks for the reply. Assistant tool looks like it could come in handy sometime but for the meantime I think i'll stick to photoshop for precise line work and paste into krita to fix up tiling.

RN

Krita can open your average PSD fine so you should be able to keep both software open and go back and forth quickly.
But Krita doesn't have the Clipping Mask feature (it uses something else to do this, called alpha-inheriting), so if you happen to use clip-masked layers in the PSD they will be loaded as normal layers and will "bleed" off the layer that was clipping them (as if you turned the clip-masking off in Photoshop).