‘ Stroke’ defines the color, gradient, pattern, and thickness of the border along the edge of the shape. Fill defines the color, gradient, or pattern that fills the space inside of the shape object. In addition to being defined by points and curves, a shape also has two defining properties: Fill and Stroke. Holding the Ctrl key will lock your moves to one axis. Click and drag along a line to curve it between two points. Click and drag a point to move it around the canvas. Point and Curve Shape Manipulation ¶ĭouble-click on a vector object to edit the specific points or curves which make up the shape. The developers are aware that this could be useful and will work on it as manpower allows. This feature of the tool will allow you to skew your object.Īt the moment there is no way to scale only one side of your vector object. Holding the Ctrl key will cause your rotation to lock to 45 degree angles. This feature of the tool will allow you to rotate your object around its center. Holding the Ctrl key will cause your manipulation to be mirrored across your object. Holding the Shift key will allow you to scale your object. Selecting a corner point will allow stretching across both axis. Selecting a midpoint will allow stretching along one axis. This feature of the tool allows you to stretch your shape. This feature of the tool allows you to move your object by clicking and dragging your shape around the canvas. There are four ways to manipulate your image using this tool and the guides on your shape. Once you have selected this tool, click on the element you want to manipulate and you will see guides appear around your shape. To edit the shape and colors of your vector element, you will need to use the basic shape manipulation tool. This can make manipulating shapes a little difficult, as the precise input will not allow cm or inch, even though the vector layer coordinate system uses those as a basis. There’s currently a bug with the vector layers that they will always consider themselves to be at 72dpi, regardless of the actual pixel-size. If the active layer is a Vector Layer then the shape will be added directly to it. You can also drag a rectangle or ellipse from the Add shape dock onto an active Paint Layer. Using the extra options from the “Add Layer” button you can click the “Vector Layer” item and it will create a new vector layer.

You can create a vector layer in two ways. Clicking the lock into a closed position will lock the content and editing will no longer be allowed until it is clicked again and the lock on the layer is released. Clicking the “eye” will toggle visibility. Next are the layer visibility and accessibility icons. The icon showing the page with the red bookmark denotes that it is a vector layer. It shows the vector contents of the layer on the left side.

This is how vector layers will appear in the Krita Layers docker. What is a Vector Layer? ¶Ī Vector Layers, also known as a shape layer, is a type of layers that contains only vector elements. Check Vector Graphics for a better overview.

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