Right-clicking and pressing “Create Duplicate
Frame”, will copy and paste the last frame, onto the frame you have selected, so you don't
have to redraw everything from scratch. If you select “Create Blank Frame”, it
will just, create an empty frame. Now, at this point, it can be a bit confusing
when thinking about Layers and Frames. So I like to think of Layers like pieces of
tracing paper that you paint on and stack on top of each other. What you draw on one layer won’t directly
edit the other layers but WILL affect how you see the other layers depending on its
order in the stack. And Frames are more like pages in a book. You have to flip forward and backward to see
the next or previous page. And each page can have as many layers as you
want. Essentially, layers are vertical addition,
and frames are horizontal. So if I added a new layer, the frames disappear
because although I have a layer here, there isn’t anything on it, only the first layer
right now has frames, only the first layer has images placed sequentially. When you create a frame, that frame is only
bound to the layer you have selected when you create the frame. Now to render your frames into a gif we need
to go to File, Render Animation. This will open a window, at this point if
you don’t have FFMpeg installed you’ll need to do so, Krita requires it to be able
to render frames into an animation. If click ok another window will pop up telling
you to download FFMPEG with a link to the website, just click that. Which should bring you here, scroll down until
you see “Get packages & executable files” then hover over your operating system, Linux,
Windows or Mac, if you have windows as I’m using I went to this first link here. This opens another page and if we look here
it says, “If you're downloading a package to support features in a program like Krita
or Blender, the release essentials build is sufficient. “ Just a little lower, right here is the
release essentials build. Click it and it should download automatically. Now since this is a Zip file, you’re going
to need one last auxiliary program, in order to open the zip file. I use 7zip, you can use whatever you want
if you want to use 7zip then come to this website here, links for all this will be in
the description by the way. Find the correct link for your operating system,
click it, it should download, and then once you’ve installed that, go to your downloads
and try to open the FFMpeg zip file you downloaded, it will ask you what program you want to use
to open it. Click 7zip, then when it opens, click and
drag the folder onto your desktop or wherever you want it to be. Once all of that is done, you can go back
into Krita and click render frames again, under FFMpeg click the little file icon here,
find where you saved the FFMpeg folder, click on it, and click on the folder that says “Bin”
then click on the file that says FFMpeg and click open. Now you selected the program that Krita will
use to render your frames, once you try to render it, if you have Avast, Avast will probably
block its use, which will cause Krita to have a quote “unknown error” so you’ll have
to click allow once it does that and then redo the render. Now under render as, you want to select GIF,
or if you want something else you can select that here. Video location, this is important as you want
to be able to find where it exports to, so make sure it's in a location that’s easy
to get to. Other than that, leave the width and height
alone, this is automatically set to the dimensions of your canvas. Frame start and end, make sure it’s at the
numbers you want them to be, in my case it’s zero and three. And then frames per second set yours to the
desired amount if you haven’t already. Lastly, up at the very top, you have Export
options, make sure it’s set to video, otherwise, you’ll just export every frame as an image
file. Or if you select both you’ll export both
the image files and the
video file.
