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When you start Krita you get some kind of starting window presented. This window is different to the final Krita window in that way that it has four fixed parts:
The main menu consists of three entries:
The menu has the following items:
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| There are also some other sub menu entries but those entries are inactive and cannot be chosen. |
The menu has the following items:
The menu has the following item:
On the left of the Krita starting window you see 6 different selections to choose from. The options that are presented to you are:
This option is recognized by an open folder with a white sheet symbol and the text on the right of the symbol. If you choose this option the specific document selection in the middle shows you up to 10 documents you have opened with Krita in the past. Choose this entry to quickly open one of the documents you worked on lately.
This option is recognized by an open folder with a white sheet symbol and the text on the right of the symbol. Pick this option to get some kind of open file dialog placed within the “specific document selection” part of the starting window. Here you are now completely free to choose any of the supported documents to open.
This option is recognized by a white sheet with a question mark symbol and the text on the right of the symbol. When you take this selection you are free to define your new Krita document. Beside the name of the new document you have to define the image size, the color model and some special contents.
This option is recognized by a square symbol with the four colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black inside and the text on the right of the symbol. This option allows you to choose a template that creates a white CMYK image (8-bit integer/channel) of 2000 x 800 pixels.
This option is recognized by a speech bubble. This option allows you to choose from a few comic templates.
This option is recognized by a triangle and the text on the right of the symbol. This option allows you to choose a template that creates a white greyscale image (8-bit integer/channel) of 640 x 480 pixels.
This option is recognized by symbol the shows three differently colored circles (red, green and blue) and the text on the right of the symbol. This option allows you to choose between 8 different templates. Each template creates a new image with either a transparent or a white background. The image size varies between 640 x 480 and 1600 x 1200 pixels.
As mentioned earlier this part differs depending on your selection within the general document selection. Therefore we keep the 6 different general document selections as starting point for the description.
This shows you up to 10 documents you have opened with Krita in the past. For some kinds of documents (e.g. JPEG and PNG) Krita even gives you a preview of the picture. If there is no preview of the document you get a white sheet with a question mark symbol presented instead. On the right of the document preview or the symbol is the file name of the document.
This just shows the open file dialog. You can navigate within the file hierarchy and select a document supported by Krita to open. You can filter the view for any supported document or you can choose to filter for a specific document type. Whatever filter you choose you will only see folders and those documents that fulfill the filter criteria.
This part lets you define important features of your new Krita document.
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The limit for the image size (as set in Krita source code) is 100,000,000 x 100,000,000, but creating images of that size really doesn't work. The real limit of image size depends on your PC. You should not try anything bigger than 32000x32000.  |
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| The limit for the image resolution (again as set in Krita source code) is 99999. Here too, the real limit depends on your PC. You should not try anything bigger than 4800. |
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| The limit for the description is 2,147,483,647 characters. What characters are supported depends on your local settings. If your Linux uses utf8 you have the full range of Unicode characters available for your description. |
Here you find one template for a white CMYK image with 8-bit integer/channel and a size of of 2000 x 800 pixels.
Here you find one template for a white greyscale image with 8-bit integer/channel and a size of 640 x 480 pixels.
Here you find 8 templates for different images with either a transparent or a white background. Four of the templates create a new document with a transparent background while the other four templates create a new document with a white background. For both the transparent and the white background the following image sizes are available: 640 x 480, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024 and 1600 x 1200 pixels.
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