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[youtube]uYdEkOyFUn8[/youtube]
- Youtube: https://youtu.be/uYdEkOyFUn8
- Peertube: [Soon on the channel](https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/c/4742f338-1ded-4798-bd85-93e8de367476/videos).
And here is the long 1h22min Krita video tutorial fully commented as I promised on [the last blog post](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article923/kiki) with the artwork.
**It's a real full lenght course suited to beginners,** but also advanced digital painters. It starts **from scratch** with **default set of brushes**, preferences and **break-down all the process**. The repetitive parts while painting were all accelerated and can be skipped easily (a timer in overlay appears on display) Check the Timeline codes under to navigate in the video.
**Subtitle are unfortunately not available**, sorry for my (heavy) French accent and poor vocabulary. It was too long to write them this time. I hope the auto generation will work and you'll have not a lot of trouble to understand me mumbling sometime.
I recorded over 6h of material, and at the end I was totally brain washed. Painting and talking while recording really overheat my brain, and I also recorded that under a super hot weather, 39°C , and I had to turn of all the fans to reduce the noise on the microphone. That was a real challenge.
Big props also to the OBS studio team (for the recording software) and Kdenlive team (for the video editing software). Of course, to the Krita team too!
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-08-15_screenshot_114459_net.jpg)
_The video was done with OBS Studio and Kdenlive, editing 1h22 of video took a long long time and was epic!_
**Timeline, Table of Content:**
I copy paste the TOC here, because it might help search engines to find a part of the video. If you open the video on Peertube or Youtube, the timecode should be dynamic and you can click to access quickly to a chapter.
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:00:40 Chapter 1, Customisation of the Krita Interface (Intro)
- 00:01:31 Reduce size of toolbar icon
- 00:01:57 The Advanced Color Selector
- 00:02:41 Two columns of dockers
- 00:03:37 From Tabs to Subwindows mode
- 00:05:10 Third Flow sliders, and new toolbar buttons
- 00:07:14 Canvas border background color
- 00:07:46 Brush outline and cursor
- 00:08:42 Tool Options, not as a docker but in toolbar
- 00:10:02 Document creation, A4@300dpi sRGB 8Bit
- 00:10:33 The Overview docker
- 00:11:23 Navigation on Krita canvas, with shortcuts
- 00:12:16 The Default brush presets set
- 00:12:37 Chapter 2, Finding the idea (Krita artist contest)
- 00:13:43 Chapter 3, References with BeeRef software
- 00:15:54 Chapter 4, Thumbnails
- 00:16:27 Basics of Krita (Fill, Transform, Selection)
- 00:19:35 About values in painting, the big "scheme" for portraits.
- 00:21:23 Starting to draw the thumbnails
- 00:24:20 Painting colors on the thumbnails
- 00:25:31 The Blending Modes (on brush) Overlay
- 00:29:17 Filters of Krita (Curves, HSV adjustement, Color Balance).
- 00:32:37 The concept of "Dirty" brush preset, and cleaning them.
- 00:35:47 Chapter 5, Drawing. Transform of the thumbnail, resolution and layer setup.
- 00:39:09 Drawing (Timelapse)
- 00:41:47 Chapter 6, Painting under the line-art
- 00:43:37 The Deform Brush Engine
- 00:45:20 "Grain Merge" blending-mode on the line-art
- 00:46:45 Introduction to creating brush presets
- 00:51:21 Brush usage, hard edge, spikes, glazing and replacing colors
- 00:51:50 Paint under, Timelapse
- 00:52:55 Chapter 7, Paint-Over (setup)
- 00:55:04 Paint-Over (timelapse)
- 00:56:11 Adjustements, and self-criticism
- 00:56:46 Values, Reading Histogram docker
- 00:59:21 Values, fixing with Curves filter
- 01:02:19 Color temperature, fixing with Color Balance filter
- 01:03:50 Background painting (timelapse)
- 01:04:22 Silhouetting the character with the Lighten Blending Mode (fog)
- 01:08:10 Paint-Over fix, removing the squirrel's hears (timelapse commented)
- 01:08:52 Lens Blur Effect for the depht of field (Filter Mask).
- 01:11:46 A special thanks for the idea of the video
- 01:12:29 Another pass for thinner details (big timelapse)
- 01:16:27 (pre)Final, and saving/archiving the file.
- 01:17:56 Appendice, fix pushed "One day after" (timelapse)
- 01:19:55 The final artwork
- 01:20:05 Outro
- 01-21-58 Credits, Attributions and License
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Link to high resolution: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2022/kiki-mascot-in-my-own-style_final.jpg
**Credits:**
Video and artworks by David Revoy
Kiki is a character design created by Tyson Tan (CC-By)
www.davidrevoy.com
**Soundtrack:**
- Intro: Fabian Measures - Hanami (CC-By) - www.soundcloud.com/fogheart
- Timelapse: Kevin MacLeod - Perspective (CC-By) - www.incompetech.com
- Outro: Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean (CC-By) - www.incompetech.com
- SoundFX: Oriental Harp3 by Soughtaftersounds (CC-By) - Freesound
Edited with Kdenlive 21.04(appimage) on Fedora KDE 36
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🪷Kiki (the Krita’s mascot), but in my style.
It's the topic of the contest of the [monthly Krita-Artist art contest](https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-contest-august-2022-topic-draw-kiki-the-krita-s-mascot-in-your-own-style/45135). That's also for my future mega tutorial for this summer.
I recorded it this week; commenting everything and I'm right now derushing 6h of talk and screenrecord to crush that to a "smaller" 1h40 video. It will be my second "from A to Z" big video friendly for beginners. The artwork was done for the needs of the video with a Krita without preferences, from stock install and with only default brushes.
I'm back at video editing it! I hope Kdenlive will be able to render this huge monster.
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For everyone in or near Boston (USA), I'll be around at the end of the month (30/31 August)! If you have any ideas about the organisation of a meeting, a signing session, a pleinair sketch group, or a Krita workshop, contact me.
It's first time I'll visit US! ☺️
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Just received a gift: a Intuos Pro Large from Wacom. They plan to reuse on their blog some of my illustrations/tutorials (eg. [on tablet ergonomics](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article30/ergonomics-of-graphics-tablets)). They wanted to thanks me because all my content was already available for free on my blog under Creative Commons CC-By ☺️ So cool!
They let me choose the model − even among all their Cintiqs model − but I deeply think pen-display-tablets are not for me. I really tried on the last episode, and I had to switch back to comfort zone in mid way.
My comfort zone is still a 10 year old Wacom Intuos 4 XL with DIY on the top (Huion WH1409 sheet overlay, tweaked to be 16:9 ratio instead of the default 4:3, etc). That is still the only tablet I found that can have an active surface large enough to adapt to modern huge monitor. I describe it on my [tablet history log](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article332/tablet-history-log) article along with all the tablets I used since I started my carreer, 20 years ago.
But I always was curious about the newer Intuos Large. With my habit of the XL, this tablet is not that large, imo; but maybe its resolution could compensate that 'small' large size? The model I received is the PTH-860, to be exact.
Expect an article here in a near future or a video. In any way I'll share how to setup this model under a Gnu/Linux system (it should be very easy, and well supported I think, we'll see). I'll do this not part of any sponsor deal or contract; I'm really free to also post nothing if I wanted. It's a real gift.
But you know; now I feel free with it, I'll probably invest more love and energy for this model. 🤣
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Hi! I just posted a new Pepper&Carrot episode on peppercarrot website:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/xx/webcomic/ep37_The-Tears-of-the-Phoenix.html
Have a good read !
(I'll add more infos in the comments later)
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[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_screenshot_131527_net.jpg)
_Screenshot: Krita, a sneak peek into the upcoming Pepper&Carrot episode._
Since my last report about episode 37 published back in April here: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article906/ep37-production-report-style , my opinion changed. What happened?
So, everything started fine when applied the conclusion of my style research, but during the final step I felt stuck. The workflow wasn't flexible when I wanted to fix the line-art and control line thickness.
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_flat-to-color-shade_workflow-ep37.jpg)
Unfortunately, it was a bit late for a change: at that point I already did all line-art and the colored flat under them with Colorize Mask. Switching mid-way to another workflow meant a lot of hours done for nothing.
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_screenshot_145518_net.jpg)
That was a hard pill to swallow, but I changed strategy: I put my clean line-art down to low opacity (40%, Grain Merge) and I started to just paint freely under this new setup, focusing on the general ambiance of the panels.
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_screenshot_150101_net.jpg)
Then I merged all and started to paint over that colored sketch. It's a longer process, but I had room and freedom now to fix the drawings, adding details and continue to improve the panel while coloring.
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_e37p02_blog.jpg)
When I had to redo the already shaded page 1, I could play with the thickness of my line-art, making it thinner and removing it when necessary. This picture compares the two rendering, left (before), right (after).
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_screenshot_143743_net.jpg)
I also changed hardware midway: I started with the XPPen Artist Pro 24, but then I preferred to comeback to my comfort zone: my non-display tablet Wacom Intuos 4 XL.
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_screenshot_152716_net.jpg)
All in all, this episode had a very chaotic process so far, as you can see on this three versions of the same panel, but I feel on better track and closer to the rendering I have in mind now. I hope you like the result!
[](data/images/blog/2022/2022-07-22_compare-rendering.jpg)
Finally, the call for translations before release was published last week on https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/issues/213#note_1853362 , many thanks to all translator who already uploaded their work on it.
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Last Pepper&Carrot signing session of the season: at [Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val), bookstore "[Le Tracteur Savant](https://letracteursavant.com/)", Sunday 10 July, 10h to 12h30. The date changed, it was originally announced for Saturday, but on Sunday, there is also one of the largest market of the region; a real touristic attraction; so we decided to make it happen during the market.
Here is a quick painting about this beautiful place. It is a paint-over [a photo originaly shot by jcb-caz-11 on Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Antonin_pano.jpg), CC-By-Sa license.
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I detailed today an old sketch to test something technical about painting (and also to keep beta testing Krita 5.1beta1). After the Rendez Vous de la BD in Amiens Festival, I saw hundreds of comic styles but rarely painterly style.
So, I'm reconsidering the orientation I took on the [last production report about style](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article906/ep37-production-report-style). It might help to push forward episode 37 because I'm not happy right now with the rendering of the first page colored and I'm looking to solve this issue.
The goal of this test illustration was to study the contrast of detailing; leaving part brushed and heavy textured on one side, and to detail with a lot of care focus point on the other side. (here, the face of Shichimi). It helps at crunching production time, while keeping the fun to detail as much as I want some specific parts.
I'll try to transfer this knowledge and notes I took into episode 37 production.
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As a part of my 'tour' of signing session for the release of Pepper&Carrot book 4, I'll be on Sunday 3 July in Toulouse for a signing session at the book store "Les Petits Ruisseaux" https://www.librairielespetitsruisseaux.fr/ from 10h to 13h.
Here is a painting of the lovely bell tower of the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse.
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Two signing sessions incoming this week!
- PARIS: Fri. 24, 16h-19h, at https://www.alivrouvert.fr/ bookstore.
- AMIENS: Sat.25, 11h-12h, 15h-18h, at https://rdvbdamiens.com/ comic festival
( with a drawing demo on large screen in the main hall from 14h-15h, I'll take laptop and a tablet!).
Here is a quick painting about Amiens, a "cityscape" of the old town of Amiens that starts on a bridge in foreground with Pepper and Carrot. In the distance, you can see the cathedral of Amiens. It's a paint-over a photo (manipulated with GMIC filters) originally shot [by Jean-Pol GRAMONT and uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiens#/media/File:0_Amiens_-_Place_du_Don_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_(1).JPG). A big thanks to him for his quality work distributed as CC-By-Sa, and his portfolio on Wikimedia is incredible.
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I love the art-direction and music of the Mana franchise; especially Secret of Mana. If you haven't played it, Dryad is a small magical creature representing the 'green' magic (in a nutshell). The [Dryad's page on the Wiki of Mana](https://mana.fandom.com/wiki/Dryad) details it better.
This artwork started as a doodle in my sketchbook. I wanted to test something with going a little bit more on saturated colors, and it was the ideal target for my test. Shading her hair was surprisingly more complex than I thought.
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_A photo of my ~~catstation~~ workstation._
[info] **Disclaimer:** This article is NOT SPONSORED. Also, do modifications of your operating system at your own risk, this guide comes with no warranty. (I had to write that for legal reasons).[/info]
**Updates:**
- 2022-06-19: Erratum about DisplayCAL, Color Calibration chapter.
## Intro
I'm once again sharing an install guide (I started making them on my blog [eleven years ago](https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/linux)). **I write this for other digital-painters** wanting to switch to a GNU/Linux workstation with all comfort.
# Reasons
I'll explain here my main reasons for advising and recommending this GNU/Linux distro for a digital-painting workstation in 2022.
### Why GNU/Linux?
My main big reasons to use a GNU/Linux open-source system evolved a bit from [the origins](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article170/why-i-m-using-100-open-source), it is now split into four reasons:
- **Independence** (no one have a control on what I watch, what I use and how I use it).
- **Technology** (performance, scripting, standards).
- **Transparency** (open-source: you can investigate any parts).
- **Control of my data** and **privacy** (I don't want companies to influence my behavior threw targeted adv).
### Why not continuing with Kubuntu 22.04LTS?
My [last guide](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article783/kubuntu-linux-20-04-for-a-digital-painting-workstation-reasons-and-install-guide) was about Kubuntu 20.04LTS, and **I used it during two years**. Two years!...that was splendid. So, with that success in mind, I imagined it would be a no-brainer to continue with the newest Kubuntu to the date: 22.04LTS.
Unfortunately, I tested 22.04LTS and I disliked it. It has a slower Firefox packaged only as [Snap](https://snapcraft.io/about). Also, applications installed with the command line "apt install" could come as Deb package, or as Snap package without knowing it ahead (and Snap version often comes with additional bugs). To top it all off, a Snap directory was even hard-coded in my /home directory.
Of course, all of that pre-existed 22.04 in a lighter form, and it was easier to dodge or uninstall it. With 22.04, I felt **Canonical wanted really to push Snap on me** and I couldn't see any technical advantage to impose to myself this technology. Especially when the GNU/Linux ecosystem has many other choices.
### Why Fedora?
**It's not a rolling GNU/Linux distribution**. You won't get the surprise of having software changing all the time. You'll get a collection of packages frozen for around half a year, and that's good for training your habits and setup a workflow that − you can trust − will work as intended when required.
**Application updates are installed after reboot** and, when updating, the software center (named "Discover" on the KDE Spin) will only download the list of packages and prompt you for a restart later. The software are then installed **at the next system boot**. This way, you never have libraries or software crashing in mid-air on your system during an update.
It also looks like Fedora is **able upgrade between major versions** without a problem. I had Fedora on a spare laptop for a while (for testing), and it managed to update itself from Fedora 35 to 36 without a single issue. Just as one swallow doesn't make a summer, I have no idea if it will be the case for future Fedora 36 to future Fedora 37 for end of 2022, but let's try.
### Why KDE Plasma desktop environment?
You'll certainly see that Fedora flagship desktop environment is GNOME Desktop Environment. But I'm recommending the KDE Spin because of many reasons that will be detailed later on this article. It is mainly about **more options for the tablet settings**, options to setup a **neutral colored theme**, thumbnails for your artwork source files and easier file type association and 'open with' menu, better support for multi monitor workflow and perfect desktop integration with my core application: Krita and Kdenlive.
# Install guide
### Installing Fedora KDE Spin
[](data/images/blog/2022/fedora36kdespin/2022-06-17_fedora-36-kde-spin_02_plasma-install.png)
_The Fedora installer in action_
You'll find a free copy of the ISO image of Fedora KDE Spin [on Fedora official website](https://getfedora.org/), just scroll down to the "Spins" box near the footer of the page, and then click on it. You'll find the ISO file for the Fedora KDE Spin here.
For the install of Fedora itself, I prefer to redirect you [to the official Installation Guide documentation](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/install-guide/). I found it very well done and written for Linux, Windows and Mac user. It's more complete and detailed than everything I could write about it.
Once done, don't forget to install all updates using Discover (you'll get an icon in the system tray inviting you to do so) and reboot.
## Login into the X11 Session
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_The X11 session option on the bottom right of the login screen._
Fedora 36 KDE Spin proposes Wayland technology for their display server by default. **Unfortunately, Wayland is far to be ready for digital-painter, graphists, and artists**. Many digital painting application (Krita, Mypaint) will not work well on Wayland and will contains more bugs, lags, freeze and you'll get more limited option for installing a tablet or a color profile.
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_Comparison of the setup dialog for tablet on Wayland versus X11._
That's why it's preferable to login into the X11 session. On your login screen, you'll have an option to switch between the default(Wayland) and X11. Once you setup your choice, your desktop will remember the choice for the future login.
## Color calibration
For any digital-painter and artist, it is important to calibrate monitors and do that monthly. But you'll see, GNU/Linux community at large don't care about this topic and still think it's a fancy optional details for picky users (and then whine about the lack of graphist or artists on the platform, lol).
So, by default, you'll have something half-working in `System Settings > Color Correction`. The good: this graphic user interface can apply ICC profile to your monitor. The bad: you'll see a red box mentioning "You need Gnome Color Management installed in order to calibrate device". But don't try it, this message is a an obsolete information since years and [a known abandoned bug](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433068).
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_The Color Correction setting panel on Plasma._
The only graphic user interface to calibrate your monitor ~~was~~ is [DisplayCAL](https://displaycal.net/) ~~but the development of this one is now abandoned since years and wont run on Fedora 36~~.
**[2022-06-19] Erratum:** thanks to comments (on the bottom of this article), I was informed you can still run [DisplayCAL as a Flatpak](https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.displaycal.DisplayCAL) on Fedora 36. Good news! I tested the Flatpak and it was simple to install: just download a reference file on Flathub and double-click it: Discover will manage everything else. I ran the test with my two calibrators (Pantone Huey Pro and ColorMunki Smile) on my two displays. It wasn't bug free but it did the job. I had mainly a warning windows about my local being English(US) and a crash on the first run; but the second run went smoother. DisplayCAL comes with a very interesting ICC profile viewer.
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_Erratum: DisplayCAL can run as a Flatpak._
### Argyllcms 'dispcal' command line to the rescue
If you want to calibrate your monitor, the only solution will be to use ArgyllCMS command line at this point. Don't be affraid, it works pretty well and it is not that complex. You can launch "Konsole" and then type (or copy/paste, pasting being Ctrl+Shift+V in terminal):
sudo dnf install argyllcms
You'll be prompted for your password (it's normal, we install something new). Connect then your calibrator on your USB port, position it on the center of your screen and paste a line like that
dispcal -d 1 -t 6500 -b 160 -g 2.2 -yl -v -o MyFilnameForMonitor1
Customise it to your liking, here is a quick description of the arguments of this line you can customise:
- **-d 1**: refers to the display. Eg. use **-d 2** for a second monitor.
- **-b 160** refers to the brightness target in candela meter square, here a 160cd/m²
- **-t 6500** refers to the target temperature, 6500K here.
- **-g 2.2** refers to Gamma 2.2.
After done and following the calibration, you'll end up with MyFilnameForMonitor1.icc (you can customise the name here). Save it somewhere, and then you'll be able to load this profile with `System Settings > Color Correction`.
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_My calibrator device while a calibration using the dispcal command line utility._
## Tablet
The Plasma desktop under X11 provides a complete tool to setup Wacom's tablet. You'll find different setup for the ring, you'll be able to customise all buttons and also apply a custom area on a specific monitor. You'll also have access to button to switch monitor and many other conveniences. You can install it with:
sudo dnf install kcm_wacomtablet
After that, reboot, and you'll find later the tablet settings into `System Settings > Input Devices > Drawing Tablet`.
If your tablet is not a Wacom one, you'll have to search probably for specific installation guide and method. I try [on the 'hardware' tag on my blog](https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/hardware) to document that for the tablet I own.
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_The first panel of the tablet settings, notice the profile rotation to setup multiple configurations._
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_The second panel about the Stylus configuration. You can even configure the Supress and Sample Rate._
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_The third panel with configuration for the buttons and ring up and ring down._
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_The last panel is dedicated to the mapping of the tablet: you can assign it to a display, to an area, and calibrate devices like Cintiqs._
## Theme
The Plasma desktop offers many customisation for the theme. You'll find that in `System Settings > Appearance > Colors` many option and a button to install more Color Scheme. This theme will be reflected (if you choose so) in your KDE apps. You'll then have a perfect desktop integration for Krita, but also Kdenlive video-editor, Kate text-editor, etc...
My preference goes to neutral gray theme, they help me to get a color balance in my artwork. I wouldn't advice "slightly colored cold grey or warm grey"; these one are the worst to unbalance your reference of what can be a neutral gray. I also like theme with black top bar for windows title. Right now, I'm using "Breeze Dark Neutral" but I also like "Wonton Soup Neutral" and "Materia Equilux".
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_The Apperance, Colors setup in the settings._
## Krita for Digital-Painting
As a digital-painter you'll probably want the latest [Krita](https://krita.org/en/) available. But if you install it via the app store (Discover), you'll only have the choice to use a version 5.0. Krita team packages a version themselves and test it. Therefore, if you want the best quality and the lesser bugs, you'll need to [download the latest Appimage from krita.org](https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/).
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_A screenshot of Krita._
Unfortunately, Appimage packages don't have the best and easiest system integration. That's why I'll advice you to download and install an utility named AppImageLauncher. [Download the latest AppimageLauncher here](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases) (get the file finishing by x86_64.rpm). Once downloaded, click on it and Discover will install it. You can visit `AppimageLauncher Setting` in your main menu after that and setup where you want your Appimages stored on your directory. When it is done, you'll only need to double-click your appimage to launch them, auto-move them to your Appimages directory, and integrate them with your main menu.
You'll also get Krita `kra files` thumbnails by default on Fedora KDE Spin, along many other thumbnail for image format, a nice touch. You'll also be able to preview your Krita artworks with an image reader named `qimgv` on Discover. (not with Gwenview for [this bug](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455321), not with Nomacs for [this bug](https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs/issues/561)).
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_Dolphin −the file browser of Plasma− supports many thumbnailer for images format._
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_Dolphin supports very large thumbnails, making easier the identification of picture by their content, not only their filenames._
Once installed, you can associate `qimgv` with your Krita files. Find a Krita kra file, right click on it, go to `Properties` and in the tab `General` press the button Open With: `Change` and you'll have an interface to manage `Application Preference Order`. You can add `qimgv` to your list. I like here to get it on top, so when I double click a Krita file, I can preview it. And to edit, I need to go Right-click "Open with: Krita". I often do that for all my images format, tiff, Png, Jpg, etc...
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_File association, a quick how-to._
## The "GNU/Linux Creative Suite"
For other applications, I often just go with the version distributed by Fedora. I'm using:
- Vector drawing application: **[Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/)**
- 3D modeling/Rendering: **[Blender](https://www.blender.org/)**
- Digital Painting (alternative): **[Mypaint](http://mypaint.org/)**
- Image Editing: **[The GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/)**
- Images auto stiching: **[Hugin Panorama Creator](https://hugin.sourceforge.io/)**
- Audio Editing: **[Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/)**
- Gif animation capture: **[Peek](https://github.com/phw/peek)**
- Desktop Publishing: **[Scribus](https://www.scribus.net/)**
- Editing fonts: **[FontForge](https://fontforge.org/en-US/)**
You'll find them directly in Discover, but you can also install them all with this single command line:
sudo dnf install inkscape gimp mypaint blender hugin peek audacity scribus fontforge
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_A screenshot of Inkscape while editing the Japanese version translated by Guruguru of Pepper&Carrot episode 36._
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_Scribus opening a double page of the Pepper&Carrot artbook._
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_Screenshot of Mypaint and Blender 3D._
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_Screenshot of Audacity audio editor and Fontforge font editor._
## Video Channel and Streaming
#### OBS Studio
[OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/) is the best tool to record your desktop for tutorials, timelapses (often wrongly named 'Speedpaintings') and stream your desktop online. I tested various version here and they were very glitchy, I found a working package following [this method using RPMFusion repository](https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-obs-studio-fedora-36-linux/).
#### Kdenlive
I use [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/en/) mainly for my videos since the DVD Chaos&Evolution in 2009. I love this video-editing application. I'm using mainly here a Kdenlive Appimage. You'll find it on [Kdenlive official website](https://kdenlive.org/en/download/). You'll need to install using the same method I wrote on the paragraph about Krita. It's very easy once you already have AppimageLauncher.
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_Screenshot of Kdenlive video editor and OBS Studio._
#### Video thumbnails
Having video thumbnails will be much more helpful to triage on disk your video take and identify your renderings. In Konsole, install:
sudo dnf install ffmpegthumbs
And then close all your file managers windows, open a new one and go to the Settings (the `burger menu` on top-right) and then `Configure > Configure Dolphin`, `General > Preview (tab)` activate the check-box `Video Files (ffmpegthumbs)`. Apply, close and voilà.
## Appendices: the advanced guide
If you are curious about my full install with my Canon MP560 Printer on Fedora, My Canon Scanner Lide 220 on Fedora, all the papercuts I had, the specific workaround for my hardware and all the packages I need to run the Pepper&Carrot project: book-publishing, the translation system, my LAMP stack for the websites, etc... I made another install guide, a bit more raw with a lot more command lines and observations.
You can read it on [Invent.Kde.org Snippets: fedora-36-kde-spin_peppercarrot-workstation.md](https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2230)
## Conclusion
I hope you liked this article! **Many thanks to all contributors of this fantastic Free/Libre and open-source system for creatives**: Fedora contributors, all Plasma KDE contributors and all contributors of application mentioned in this article.
**Also a big thank you [to my patrons](https://www.davidrevoy.com/static3/become-my-patron)** for supporting my experimentation, the time I take testing, bug-reporting and documenting my process.
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## Links and bibliography
Useful community to search information:
- The Fedora official user documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/
- Fedora Magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org/
- Ask Fedora: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/
- Fedora Reddit news and discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/
Here are article and videos that influenced me:
- Video "Fedora is the new Ubuntu - Fedora Long Term Review" by The Linux Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9h_0dnSGWk
- "OBS Studio and Fedora Linux: An Interview with Georges Basile Stavracas Neto" https://fedoramagazine.org/obs-studio-and-fedora-linux-an-interview-with-georges-basile-stavracas-neto/
- "How to install the latest stable Kdenlive on Fedora or Ubuntu" https://cialu.net/how-to-install-the-latest-stable-kdenlive-on-fedora-or-ubuntu/
- "How to Migrate to Fedora Linux from Ubuntu ,Beginner’s Guide" https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/04/migrate-to-fedora-from-ubuntu/
- "Sorry Arch (EndeavourOS), it's not working out any more and hello Fedora" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/sorry-arch-its-not-working-out-any-more-and-hello-fedora/
