Check Your Painting Values with One Krita Shortcut

Interested how to set up one Keyboard shortcut to check your painting values in Krita while painting? This short (2min) quick tip video is for you!

Timeline:
00:00 Intro and description.
00:15 Demonstration of how to use the shortcut of 'Softproofing', with Ctrl+Y, it allows one to preview the canvas into another colorspace.
00:43 I teach you here how to switch the document properties from the default CMYK "Chemical Proof" model in Absolute mode to the Greyscale model in perceptual mode.
01:38 In the end of the video, I show you how to apply this change permanently to your next new documents.
02:04 Outro and credits.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Video and artworks by David Revoy

Soundtrack:
Intro: Fabian Measures - Hanami (CC-By)
Outro: Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean (CC-By)

Edited with Kdenlive 20.12 on Kubuntu Linux 20.04

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[Sreutzi]

Although I knew about this feature, I was kind of frustrated with not knowing how make this setting permanent, so thank you very much for this video!

[scroptels]

No one has changed my life this **** fast, thank you so much i'll be using this forever now.

[andi_pasti]

The cat was also curious when you said it’s a useful feature 😄

[cantycanvas]

I love your channel. Thanks for sharing this neat trick. I used Photoshop before but decided to switch to Krita for ideological reasons (opensource and anti monopolistic). Your videos really help and your artwork is great.

[flafcodes]

Wow, this tip is so useful! Never heard about that. 😮
And the best part its non-destructive and instant!

[cookiestrong]

This is exactly what I wanted to know!!!
Thank you much!!

I was getting so frustrated because I don’t know anything about digital art and even when trying to research how to do this, I couldn’t find any useful information.

But this video is so easy to understand and exactly what I was looking for.

You seriously made my day. Thank you so so so much.

[vanessac]

You make Krita so user-friendly I started drawing digitally again. Kudos! Hope you keep with your amazing work

[SynthLizard]

I hope you never lose the heavy accent, it makes the videos all the more enjoyable with the mis-pronunciations.

It's always funny when you say "focus" and it comes out sounding like a rude word.

[ilikeemeraldgreen]

I kept pressing that shortcut by accident and never knew what it was for. So that's how it works! Thanks!

[DaymBoi]

Thank you !!😄 Had to restart Krita in order for the new changes to apply.

[leandroalmeida]

Man, if i have i would give it to you. Eternal gratitude to u! Tks!

[well.done.]

Thank you for this guide! I'm new in krita, looking for photoshop alternative and this is must have feature! Glad they add it

[nokkahuilukostaja]

Thank you, this is so much simpler than doing it by hand with layers!

[Ehh.]

Thank you so much T-T I'm so glad I don't have to look for the setting myself. This was super straight forward and helpful, thanks again!

[kiroaldo]

Thank you so much David! You can't even imagine how helpful and inspiring all of your content is. Muchas gracias! You're amazing 😃✨

[carinea]

Depuis toutes ces années je reste fidèle à Krita -team kde. Admirative et reconnaissante de votre travail, de votre mise en avant du libre, de pepper & carott, de vos traits (dessinés) si charmants, je vous adresse enfin ce premier commentaire. Veuillez acceptez tout mes respects + quelques rayons de soleil from "Reunion Island". Merci, merci et bien à vous. 😉🏝

[yapayzeka]

with this technique I will consider not painting values first but directly with colors. thank you very much.

[Azy-Al]

Yay a very useful shortcut! I was using [ ctrl + shift + u ] and then click on the "create filter mask" (so it won't permanently desaturate the artwork) to check the values. Thank you as always～ God bless you!

[quadradobr]

Couldnt find how to graycale krita anywhere. Thank u!

[kaizzeart]

I had this on photoshop, and now I feel even more at home!