In this lesson video, we are going to discuss how we can pick colors from the color history and from existing colors in the canvas. Most of the time when we are growing or painting, we need to pick a certain color over and over again. This is because we probably already have certain color scheme for our artwork, or we just need to be color from the canvas to blend colors for example. First, let's see how the color history works in Krita. If you select color using the advanced color selector, no matter how many times you change the color Krita will not memorize them in a color history. But if you actually use the color on the canvas, for example, using the brush tool, like this creator will store the color to the color history.
You can see the color edit in here. If we change the color to this color, color for example, and stroke again on the canvas, we can see another color edit on the color history. With this color history, we can quickly select any previous color we have used before. You can also select color history from the pop up palette in here. So this color bars around the color wheel is actually the color history. Okay, another way to select color from the color history is by pressing h in the keyboard.
A small pop up will appear showing the list of colors we have used before. In here, we can quickly select any color that we want to use. Okay, now we are going to learn how to be color from the canvas. The quickest way to be color when working with the brush tool is by holding the control key. Remember, you need to be in Brush Tool mode for this to work. Notice By holding the Ctrl key, the mouse cursor change to this eyedropper symbol.
While in this mode, if you click with the left mouse button, any color on a target cursor will be sampled as the foreground color. But if you press right click, the color on the canvas will be sampled as the background color. Okay, this control key method is my preferred method, because more than 90% of our time when working with Krita will be using the brush tool. Another way to activate the color picking functionality is by using the color selector tool in here. To quickly switch to this tool we can use the P letter key. Well this is active.
Clicking we will sample the color on the canvas and use the color for the foreground color. When painting most of the time, we need to shift the color to be brighter or darker. We need brighter color to add highlights, and we need to shift the color to a darker color when adding shadows to our drawing. In Krita, there is a cool system and shortcuts for doing this, you can press L to make the color lighter or brighter, and you can press K to make the color darker. What's so great about the system is that do a creator choose the offset colors for brighter and darker is exactly how I will choose them. For example, notice if we click in here in the color selector, move the cursor away.
Then if you press K, the color will be darker, but also become a bit saturated because it is slightly moved to the right. On the other hand, if we press L several times, it will move slightly to the left. So it's slowly reducing the saturation of it. This is correct behavior of real world lighting, the more brighter the less saturation of color you will have. Okay? So again, okay to pick darker color, and l to pick brighter color