Chapter 4 - Selections & Transforms

Selections allow you to focus on certain portion of your image to work on. They are used extensively for things like resizing and masking out areas. The tools themselves are simple to learn. The real power with selections is knowing when to use them. As we go over the types of selections, we will see how they can speed up and enhance your creative workflow.

After we learn how to make selections, we will go over how to modify them. Transforms allow you to distort, twist, bend, and move your selections. With the combined forces of both, you will find yourself using these tools frequently. Selections are at the root of modifying your artwork, so we will start there.

There are three places in Krita that allow you to make selections: on the toolbox, in the main menu, and through the Layers docker. Some types of selections can only be done in certain areas, so we need to touch on all of them. Let’s start off by looking at the types of selection tools in the toolbox.