After a quick discussion with Boudjewin and Scott, we thought it would be good to have a page that aggregates video tutorials in an appealing fashion, so that the users have a one-stop place to find all the resources they need to learn the program.
This would complement the documentation nicely for those who don’t like to read, and would rather watch tutorials.
This is a task to discuss where this page should go, and how it should be organized.
Considering there aren’t too many videos available, a dedicated page in the documentation might work at first, although having columns and a bit of flexibility to organize categories would be useful as well. For reference, on Ctrlpaint, there’s this page, with a simple layout that does the job (200 videos): http://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/
**Which videos?**
At first, I suggest that we just collect videos from the most active persons around the project, like first-class sources - I believe Wolthera made a few educational videos, David as well, and my videos. Are there some free ones made by Timothée? Outside of people who are active around here, there is this young artist, Sara, who has a popular channel, and at least a handful of videos with useful tips. But more importantly, she makes very appealing paintings, so her content can help to impress new users. Just like David, but with a different style.
I don’t know of any other great video resources for Krita. There are a few more lone tutorials out there, but nothing outstanding. There’s also JSHint who made a lot of videos, but it’s mostly live recordings and the quality varies a lot. I’ll let this all up to discussion, because I’m very critical and sometimes skeptical about the educational material you can find online (including mine).
**Categories**
There are a few ways we can approach this. I would go with a few categories targeted at specific art jobs: animators, illustrators/concept artists, texture/3d artists, … With extra categories like quick start, and core features for tutorials that are relevant to everyone. That way we can organize the content in a way that answers the users’ problems, and that might resonate with them. It makes it harder to choose where to put videos exactly though, so it’s up for discussion. Especially if anyone was to add their own contents in the future, this might become a mess.
Another way to organize everything would be to just use the areas of the program. Like everything related to brushes, colors, layers (layers docker, masks, nondestructive layers…), Selections and transforms… And would still need some categories that are related to various art forms, for the videos that don’t cover a specific feature but are still useful for the users.