Intro to Krita: Digital Painting

Interested in digitally drawing or painting on your system? One free application that makes that possible is Krita.

This introduction workshop looks at the basics of Krita. A survey of the history, installation basics, getting started, and basic tools will be covered.

Please bring a laptop with pre-installed Krita software if you'd like to follow along.

We'll start with how the software originated and provide a very brief description of how to install the software. Then, we'll define introductory terms including brushes, blend modes, layers, dockers, and canvas.

We'll then cover a live demo of the:

• User Interface
• Color Theme
• Toolbars
• Dockers
• Painting Mode
• Wrap-Around Mode
• Brush Engines and Blending Modes
• Shapes
• Paint
• Filters
• Layers - Manipulation
• Layers - Raster vs. Vector

Perry Rivera is a Computer Lab Instructor for the Mayall Academy Lab and is involved with OpenStack Magnum project, Fedora Ambassadors, San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group, and CERT-LA.