Chapter 2: Reviewing Canvas Properties and Color
Welcome to the second chapter! In the previous chapter, we discussed what makes Krita unique, installed the software, and discovered some fun ways to customize your user interface (UI) to make sure you have everything you need to get creating.
This chapter will be discussing a few things that seem to be "gotcha" topics for a sizeable portion of digital artists, even at intermediate and advanced levels. My goal for this book is to be a reference that acts as your "art buddy"—something you can take off the shelf year after year and find something new to chew on. No chapter will encapsulate this more so than this one.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Breaking down resolution, aspect ratios, canvases, and dots per inch (DPI)/pixels per inch (PPI)
- Evaluating color modes—red, green, blue (RGB), cyan, magenta, yellow, and blacK (CMYK), and the RGB/RYB difference (additive...