

In Krita : HSY > Color and HSL > Color HSL Multiply I also use Color (HSY) with grey to desaturate zone, or do hue corrections. The result is often dull, and greish, but that's easy to fix with another pass of the overlay blending mode. I use the color blending mode to do a first pass of colorization over my grisaille. This propriety help me to shift values in the distance, and split different grounds on my artwork.Ĭhanging the color is the obvious mission of the blendings modes 'colors'. Lighten will paint only if the value on the canvas is darker than the value on your brush. Note: fun bug in Gimp since 10 years, 'overlay' is similar to 'Soft light'. 'Soft Light' is a more subtle variation of 'Overlay'. Overlay is also known for it's conveniency on layer to 'overlay' a texture, or a pattern over a surface. It can be used also to boost colors and give an object the first role in your composition. Painting wih dark tones will intensify and vivid the area. But over, and under this grey, Overlay will switch to a brightening or a darkening blending mode. If you select a grey 50% it will do nothing.

Overlay is a conditionnal blending mode : it combine two blending mode in one. It has advantage of a stronger saturation and contrast over other brightening blending mode (Linear Dodge, Addition, Screen).Ĭontrast, vivid, boost colors here is my primary usage of my favorite blending mode : Overlay. Light, glows, coronas, lazers, neons this is the blending mode I use to manage all my light effect. Each blending modes in the subcategories can join the top favorite list by checking the checkbox next to them. This list contains favorites on top, and subcategories to unfold under. The default one is named 'Normal', press this button and you'll get a list. Where I can find it ? In Krita 2.9, the blending modes applied to your active brush is displayed on a button in the top toolbar. I'll aslo keep the list minimal with five one. I'll also not show formulas and math : it's a painting tutorial. I'll not perform here a cold listing of all blending modes as I saw on other tutorials. I'll not show all the blending-mode as other tutorials do. Goal : This video tutorial ( on top ) aims to offer to the digital-painter pratical tips to use blending-modes on his brushes. Knowing a set of useful blending modes can assist and ease your work for painting specific rendering.
#BLENDING IN KRITA HOW TO#
In short a blending mode is a math formula telling your software how to mix two colors : the ones on your canvas and the one on your brush. whaat? In digital-painting, you can paint with 'blending modes' applied on your brush.
