ngafar/krita-comic-guides — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Quickly start a new comic page sized for US standard print dimensions.
Add bleed, trim, and safe area guides without measuring them by hand.
Get a nine panel grid as a starting layout for a comic page.
| ngafar/krita-comic-guides | 0xallam/my-recipe | 0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 0 | — | 0 |
| Language | Python | Python | Python |
| Last pushed | — | 2022-11-22 | — |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | — |
| Setup difficulty | easy | moderate | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 4/5 |
| Audience | designer | general | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Krita Comic Guides is a small plugin for Krita, the free digital painting program, that helps you set up a new document for making comic pages. Instead of manually creating page dimensions and guides every time you start a new comic, this plugin creates a document sized at eleven inches by seventeen inches at six hundred pixels per inch, which is a standard size for American comic book pages. Once the document is created, the plugin also adds bleed, trim, and safe area guides. These are lines that show where the edge of the printed page will be, where content might get cut off during printing, and where the important artwork and text should stay so it does not get trimmed away. On top of that, it lays out a nine panel vector grid, giving you a starting point for panel layout instead of drawing gridlines by hand. To use it, you download a zip file from the project's releases page, then import it into Krita through the Tools menu using the Import Python Plugin from File option, and restart the program. After that, you run the plugin from Tools, Scripts, New US Comic Page, which builds the eleven by seventeen page for you. If the option is not visible, you need to turn on the plugin in Krita's Python Plugin Manager under Settings, Configure Krita, then restart Krita again. The guide dimensions the plugin uses come from a reference on original art dimensions for American standard comics, credited to a site called Blambot. For anyone working on the plugin's code itself, there is also a shortcut command using a tool called uv that reinstalls the plugin directly from the repository folder. This is a narrowly focused tool built for comic artists who use Krita and want a faster, more consistent way to start new comic pages, rather than a general purpose art or publishing application.
A Krita plugin that instantly creates a properly sized comic book page with bleed, trim, and panel guides already in place.
Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly designer.
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