svg file as output and that can be opened in Inkscape or GIMP (paths only) and other vector applications. Layer → Import/Export → Save Vector Layer as SVG

svg files inside itself.In krita, you can export a vector layer as. kra file actually stores vector layers as individual. kra file, which will also include any paint layers you have in your artwork, which is probably the most suitable way for a krita beginner to save their vector work. The reasons to do this are if you want to continue work using another application, like Inkscape, or to pass your work on to another artist who does not have krita, or for publishing. svg file and I remember you asking about this. It may be that you prefer to leave that until you do videos for ‘Intermediate’ users.ġ7:25 You say, “… go back to your tracing tool …” This is an example of ‘terminology drift’ which is a very easy mistake to make and can confuse beginners.Ģ3:00 You ‘save’ your work by doing a layer-export to an. Using named groups is useful and can be important but you can also do that with the vector-copy techniques. The vector tools and techniques, such as selecting two objects with Shift+click then doing right-click and copy, paste, transform-mirror are quite simple to learn and use, even for beginners I’d have thought. Pencil-Optimise can be enabled and its value changed to smooth and simplify a hand drawn path in different degrees but it needs a bit of practice to get used to it.ġ6:25 You prepare to make the mirrored copy of the right antenna and you use what I would personally regard as a ‘painting’ technique to do this, and throughout for all the mirrored copies of legs.

It’s possible that beginners have been experimenting with the settings and have left them in an unsuitable condition.įor an ‘easy experience’, Fill:- Not Filled, Pencil-Precision:- Curve, Pencil-Optimise:- disabled. Hello That was a very nice video with wide coverage as well as some nicely detailed examples.Īs you might expect, I have some commentsġ4:20 You prepare to use the Freehand Path Tool but didn’t explain the importance of the Tool Options settings.

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