Any blending brushes like in Photoshop?

[redrobin]

Hi

Still new to Krita, is there any way to get blending brushes, the way the blending brush works in Photoshop?

TIA

[Michelist]

I know, this is not the answer you expect, but whether you can imagine it or not, there are many users here who only know that Photoshop exists.

So if you are looking for “something like in Photoshop”, then you should already describe us how Photoshop does this or that, how it displays or treats something. Example images would also be helpful to get an answer from us
In any case, Krita also has various blending brushes, whether they meet your expectations I can not tell you so, just try them out.

Michelist

Edit: Grammar

[Takiro]

Pretty much all the brushes of the smudge engine do blending, same as a lot of pixel brushes in some way. Unless you tell us how the blending brush works in Photoshop (is it a dedicated tool or something), it’s hard to answer.

If you’re looking for brush presets that only do blending (without doing any colors), there are a few presets available by default.

just search for blend in the preset docker.

Blending brushes are just like any other brush preset in Krita, so you can change them to your liking or even create your own.

You can turn any existing smudge engine brush into a blending brush (basically) by switching off `Color Rate’ in its preset options.

[redrobin]

I don’t have any expectations … just finding out what Krita might have before I get into it deeper over time.
Example images probably wouldn’t convey anything, it’s more the process at which PS blender brush does things, which I tried to explain … probably very poorly

[redrobin]

Hi thanks for info. Looks all promising, will try them out. Regarding the PS blending brush, it not only smudges, but takes the color a user has selected from the swatches etc and then also picks up “paint/color” from where one touches the canvas, and how much it mixes is determined my pressure and stroke direction etc … also if one samples from a specific area, it not only samples the color but also the area texture, which it then uses to mix both color and texture with the current surface area.
Phew, Im really not sure if I explained it any good at all … but basically, I’m sure from what I’ve seen Krita has many abilities and improving all the time … I’ll have to spend some time getting more familiar with the brushes.

[tiar]

Brushes that mix the color on the canvas with the color you have selected are often called “Wet” brushes in Krita. They also often have purple icons, like this:

For sampling a specific area, you’re looking for this one specific brush:

It’s called “Clone Tool” (so you can search for it using a search term “clone”). It uses a special so called brush engine in Krita, called of course Clone Engine. You can open Brush Editor (F5) and there are more settings for it. “Painting Mode” is pretty important because it determines how it picks the area etc.

(You can see that different brush engines have different options in the Brush Editor. There is Pixel Engine, which is the most common, Color Smudge, which is for brushes that do any blending, either with color (“wet brushes”) or without (“blending brushes”), Quick Brush which has only a few options but it’s super fast so good for applying color to huge areas, there is a Clone Engine that I talked about already, there is MyPaint which uses brushes from MyPaint, it’s a bit peculiar engine but there are some MyPaint brushes in Krita now, and then there are many other special brush engines. And interesting one is Deform, it’s like a super fast but blurry Liquify (actual Liquify is one of the modes in Transform Tool (ctrl+T) and is much more precise, but slower)).

[redrobin]

Hi

Thanks for all the information … super excited to try it all out