Krita 5 Tutorial: Reference Images Tool

Remake of a MUCH older tutorial. Enjoy!

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[rewguy]

I’m glad you talked about being able to trace with the reference tool. You didn’t mention that in the first video. Good tutorial, and thanks for helping us in our art journey using Krita.

[mikxl]

Thank you so much, I've been working with references only by directly pasting them on the canvas, never knew how to isolate them as reference. This changes everything

[Richard-mzqu]

Outstanding tutorial! I have been binging on your videos and man have you taught me a lot about Krita. I have always used Photoshop, but this program really looks intreging. Thank you so much for all you put into these great videos. Oh and I have to say you have a really nice voice.

[Roarshark]

Thanks! Been using Krita for many years, and you just taught me this tool today :)

[anime_ninja]

Thank you for making this video been struggling interacting with reference image 👍

[DoodleDan]

Thanks, I never knew it could do that, no idea what I thought the little pin tool did

[KiwiButterBees]

Thank you so much I've been struggling with poses and this helped out a lot

[CrazyGreenFluff]

thank you! i use a reference window in sai and sai 2 and im testing out krita, but couldn't find the option to resize the second window i opened! so i looked it up and this helped ^^

[thefluffygenius]

Thank you, now I can use references within the same window like a normal person XD

[twistedactinide]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I messed up one of my actual pictures using it as a layer and I needing something like this lol

[parupaur]

i really enjoyed your batman impression lol also this was extremely helpful!

[nickyleromefeliciano]

Thank you!, It helped me so thumbs up for that :P from Philippines

[JustCallMeInsane]

Very handy tool. I use this all time, and it makes life so much easier!

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[Mteo_J]

The Tera screenshots folder caught my eye 😮

[stuartgreenhalgh]

Great video. When you selected both images in a box, how did you do that. I heard you click the keyboard without an explanation. 🙂

[burgerpowder]

when i click the "tool options" i dont see the plus symbol and all that. even after reseting my settings, the only tool options i see are options for "brush smoothing". is there any way to make the plus buttons for layers appear?

EDIT: NVM IM STUPID, i didnt click the pin button. ill keep this comment on anyway to boost the algorythm.

[davee_dragon]

the video was very useful, thank you! And you're also very cute >//<
And if you can, please help me. When I insert a reference and reduce its transparency, I try to draw over it, but behind my pen there are a bunch of small squares that cover the reference itself and it becomes very inconvenient to draw
I'm not copying, I'm just checking the correct proportions

[delgadoazorin]

Hi! Cool tutorial. I have this problem: I can't pick a small reference when it's "inside" a big one. Is there any kind of navigator? Thanks a lot.

[supahjadi]

Is there anyway to mirror or flip the reference image?

[CatrinaMaddern]

When I add an image with this tool it wants to put it on the top layer and when I go to move it Krita unselects the image and tries to draw on the layer