There are many types of assistants provided by Krita. Well, we can think of the “assistant tool” in Krita, as these drawing tools. In the real world, we usually rely on straight rulers, French curves, compasses, or other similar tools to draw long lines or curves. Generally, I am quite satisfied with the “weighted” mode and rarely need to use the “stabilizer” mode. Consequently, it also makes the heaviest demand on computer performance. This mode has an even stronger “smoothing” effect compared to the “weighted” mode. This is to compensate for the vibration of your hand. With this feature, you may notice that the brush tip is moving late compared to the mouse cursor. Of course, with the consequence of more burden on your computer system. This mode gives a stronger “brush smoothing” effect than the “basic”. You’ve been using it all along whether you realize it or not. If you enable this “basic” option, but do not feel any difference, it means that your “drawing tablet” already has the feature enabled. You can simulate the feature via software with this “basic” option. Today, most drawing tablets available in the market already have a basic “brush smoothing” feature embedded in the hardware and/or the driver. You only need to use this mode if you are using an older model drawing tablet. For example, when creating outlines or line art, or what is commonly known as the “ Inking” process in comic creation. You should turn it on only when it’s necessary. So in general, you always want to turn this option off. You should know that the “brush smoothing” feature will put more load on your computer’s performance. This is the default option, which basically means that the brush smoothing feature is turned off. There are 4 modes of brush smoothing provided by Krita. When you use the “ freehand brush tool“, in the “ tool options” docker, you will see the “ brush smoothing” option. But, with the Alt + M shortcut, the canvas will be mirrored at the location of the mouse cursor. The difference is that by pressing the letter M only, the canvas will be mirrored at the center of it. Next, to “ mirror” the canvas, you can press the letter M on the keyboard, or you can also press Alt + M. You can also use 3 fingers to do “ panning“. If you are using an Android device, for example, or using a drawing tablet that supports “touch gesture”, you can use 2 fingers to rotate the canvas and also zoom. There is actually another method to rotate the canvas, and that is by using “ touch gesture“. To reset, or return the canvas rotation to default, you can slide and snap this white circle, to the dark circle on top. Then drag and rotate this small white circle. That is by right-clicking while using the brush tool. Or you may also use the “ pop-up palette“. If you prefer to use the UI buttons, you can use this small circle at the bottom area on the “ status bar“. I explain all of these techniques visually in the following eBook. And press 5 on the keyboard to reset the orientation. If you prefer to use only the keyboard keys, without the mouse, you can press number 4 and number 6 to rotate the canvas around. Then click-drag with the regular left mouse button. If you prefer the Spacebar navigation technique, you can hold down the Spacebar key as well as the Shift key. You can hold down the Shift key, and then click drag with the middle mouse button. If you prefer the “ middle mouse button” method. So now, how do we rotate the canvas? There are many ways to rotate the canvas in Krita. If I have to draw a horizontal line, I usually rotate the canvas around 90 degrees first. For me, drawing a line vertically from top to bottom is easier compared to drawing a line that extends horizontally. By rotating the canvas in a certain orientation, we can overcome our weaknesses, and create lines in the direction that we like or are good at. Whether it is left diagonal, or right diagonal, or perhaps vertical, or horizontal directions. This is because most people have a tendency to be good at drawing lines in a certain direction. The first method that artists often rely on when creating long lines or curves is by rotating the canvas, and/or by mirroring it. For this purpose, there are at least 4 methods that we can do in Krita: Or at least when making line art, we want to keep our hands steady. When making drawings or illustrations, we often need to make long lines or curves.
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