r/krita • u/Pinkamen • 1d ago

Solved Regulate opacity with only pressure and not how many brushstrokes you made

So, there are two painting modes for brush, one is called "build up" and the other one is "wash".

The desired result is to regulate opacity with not how many brushstrokes you made over previous brushstroke but just the pressure. Well, the same thing, when you keep your pen and making brushstrokes over the same place and the opacity regulates only by the pressure, but this rule keeps when you're making a new brushstroke, over the previous one.

The opacity of merging brushstrokes in merge area should be defined by the darkest brushstroke.

First picture is the current result and the second one is desired result.

Is that possible to accomplish?

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u/baymarket96 1d ago

Change your brush blend mode to "Greater." Reply if you want step by step pictures

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u/Pinkamen 1d ago

Found it myself. Thank you.

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u/s00zn 1d ago

I'm not sure that's possible. Overlapping brushstrokes with less than 100% opacity will always reveal the overlap areas. That is by design how opacity works.

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u/Pinkamen 1d ago edited 1d ago

I really hope that there's a way to achieve this effect. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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u/s00zn 1d ago

Perhaps if I understood why you are using opacity I could help more. I've found sometimes new users use opacity as a replacement for finding shades of the hue they're working in, but I know that might not be your case...

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u/Pinkamen 1d ago

Well, to actually shading with the grayscale. I'm a beginner so I'd start with the grayscale to understand the thing.
By varying black I want to make drawing to have a lot more volume in it, not just the lineart, but the volume. So, to shade something I'd make a lot of brushstrokes (it's comfortable to me) and regulate the opacity of the black by pressing the pen, no matter how many brushstrokes i made over the previous one. It would be a lot easier to me to shade something, and it will look a lot more decent than it is right now.

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u/s00zn 1d ago

Don't use opacity to create shades of grey. Doing so will cause you hours of misery because what you're doing is preventing pixels from receiving full colour. You need to actually choose grey shades of completely opaque colour.

By learning to choose your colours (or shades of a dark hue like black) instead of "faking it" with opacity, you'll be months ahead in your learning curve.

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u/Pinkamen 1d ago

This one is really cool! Thanks! I'll try that.

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u/Pinkamen 1d ago

Hold up, there’s other idea. What if I could regulate grayscale value by pen pressure? The stronger I press - the more value is color. Seems like giving pixels full color in that case.

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u/s00zn 1d ago

I've never heard of a digital art program that can do that. It's so simple to paint in different values. Instead of trying to find a way around it, just jump right in and start picking colours and painting. You may enjoy it.

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u/dxq3 1d ago

Oil brush with some settings can smudge the edges of previous brushstrokes. it gives something middle between 1st and 2nd pic