Krita/Manual/Selections

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This manual is a rewrite of the 1.6 manual. It is not complete.

Working with Selections

Krita comes with many methods of selecting parts of your canvas in order to edit them. Once you make a selection you will only be able to affect the canvas area inside of that selection.

Lets first examine the methods we have available to make a selection.

Selection Commands

Select All

This command, accessed from the Select menu or by pressing Ctrl + A, will select everything in the current active layer. Ctrl + A is used only to select everything. It does not toggle selection.

Deselect

This command, accessed from the Select menu or by pressing Ctrl + Shift + A, will deselect everything.

Invert Selection

This command, accessed from the Select menu or by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I, will deselect everything that is currently selected and select everything that is not selected.

Selection Tools

These tools can be used to make specific selections of your image.

Whenever using one of these tools it is important to note the modes selected in the Tool Options dock:

Warning
The "Shape" mode seems to cause problems with locking the layer. For now, unless you really know what you are doing, I recommend not using it.

We will look at the Action buttons in the tool options dock.

The first button is Replace. When this is selected any selection you make will replace any previous selection.

The second button is the Intersect button. When this mode is active your new selection will be the intersection of any previous selection and your newly drawn selection.

The third button is the Add button. Any selection you make will be added to your previous selected area.

The fourth button is the Subtract button. This will allow you to remove sections of the current selection.

Select a rectangular area

This tool, represented by a rectangle with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection of a rectangular area. Simply click and drag around the section you wish to select.

Select an elliptical area

This tool, represented by a ellipse with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection of a elliptical area. Simply click and drag around the section you wish to select.

Select by brush

This tool, represented by a brush over an area with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection by dragging a circular brush area across your canvas. You can adjust the width of the brush in the tool options dock.

Select a polygonal region

This tool, represented by a polygon with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection of a polygonal area point by point. Click where you want each point of the Polygon to be. Double click to end your polygon and finalize your selection area.

Select an area by its outline

This tool, represented by a bean shape with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection by drawing a freehand line around on the canvas. Simply click and draw a border around the section you wish to select.

Select a contiguous area of colors

This tool, represented by a bucket over an area with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection by selecting a point of color. It will select any contiguous areas of a similar color to the one you selected. You can adjust the "fuzziness" of the tool in the tool options dock. A lower number will select colors closer to the color that you chose in the first place.

Select similar colors

This tool, represented by a dropper over an area with a dashed border, allows you to make a selection by selecting a point of color. It will select any areas of a similar color to the one you selected. You can adjust the "fuzziness" of the tool in the tool options dock. A lower number will select colors closer to the color that you chose in the first place.

Select an area of the image with a path

This tool, represented by a ellipse with a dashed border and a curve control, allows you to make a selection of an area by drawing a path around it. Click where you want each point of the path to be. Click and drag to curve the line between points. Finally click on the first point you created to close your path.