Krita Photobash Plugin

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An advanced Krita Plugin, laser-focused on improving productivity for photo-bashing and references!

Features and How-to-use:

After setting the references folder, you now have a list of 9 images in the docker, sorted alphabetically. If your folder has more than 9 images in total, there are now multiple pages. There are different ways to scroll the list, such as:

If the images in the folders are of large size, there may be some slowdown when scrolling quickly. However, the plugin is caching the previews, and stores up to 90 images, so you can scroll through them back more easily later.

To add an image to the document, all you'll have to do is click on the image. That's it! You can also drag the image to a specific position using Shift + Drag. After adding, you'll notice that the image might be scaled. To reduce needing to always transform to the correct size, there are two elements to assist you:

Dragging the image presents the same behaviour as clicking, with the only difference being that the image will be added in the position you specify! It will always preserve aspect ratio, so there's no need to worry with distortion.

If you want to filter the images, you can add words to the text prompt on top of the widget. This filter will work on the full path of the image, so if you have images with random names, but are inside a folder called "rocks", if you input "rocks", those images will still appear. There's also an extra feature, in which mulitple word search adds to the selection. For example, if you input "rocks marble", the images that contain either "rocks" or "marble" will appear!

Context menu

You can also have some extra features by right-clicking on an image. This will open up a small menu, with several options:

Hope you enjoy this plugin, and feel free to post your artworks over on Krita Artists!