09-07-2015, 08:16 AM
If you didn't know - kritas layers can be used like colour overlays - you can paint colour over the greyscale, and just colourise - it keeps the values, I /think/ the layer mode you need is colourise.. I don't use Krita enough, but it's pretty much the same as what you do in photoshop (I've seen tutorials for that floating around so that might be easier to find? Sycra does a good one)
It's good for thumbnailing even, just to get a feel for what kind of colour pallet you want to use.
You can also magic lasso areas, and paint just in the selected area for clean lines - or copy that area onto another layer, put it in a group, and if you unselect the loopy knot shaped thing on any layer above that one in the group, it's constrained - clipping mask I think it's called. Means you can hit things with large textures/ air brush etc without worry.
It's good for thumbnailing even, just to get a feel for what kind of colour pallet you want to use.
You can also magic lasso areas, and paint just in the selected area for clean lines - or copy that area onto another layer, put it in a group, and if you unselect the loopy knot shaped thing on any layer above that one in the group, it's constrained - clipping mask I think it's called. Means you can hit things with large textures/ air brush etc without worry.