Currently when I want to see the changes to my brush opacity I have to make a new stroke everytime. This feels quite clunky and maybe not even intentional ?
When using opacity in my drawings, I want to make the opacity of certain sections match closely with each other, hence using the brush opacity over brush pressure.
I’m not quite sure if a feature like this exist in other programs but I think it would be great for my workflow if it existed in krita.
Hello @WA_WA and welcome to the forum!
The question here is, how, or from where, should Krita be able to know which part of your painting your next brushstroke should match? With every brushstroke you add to your picture, this “quiz” gets bigger, more complex, because Krita can’t know whether you want to place your next stroke next (near) to the last one or perhaps continue or rework another part of the picture.
Michelist
Hello! I think you misunderstand what i’m asking. If you were to open up krita and changed the opacity with I or the O key, the current stroke opacity won’t change until you make a new stroke.
Interestingly enough this seem to also be true for the stroke size.
Are you saying you want to tell Krita to change the size or opacity of brushstrokes after the brushstrokes appear on the canvas?
No any brushstroke already on the canvas can stay as is. I just want krita to be able to react to me changing the brush stroke setting with hotkeys.
Something like this. Currently this is impossible without a macro clicking a bunch of times because the brush keeps it’s original opacity without changing to the current opacity.
Only now I realize I might be confusing people with “brush” and “brush stroke”! I apologize.
Are you saying you want to change the opacity during the brushstroke by hitting hotkeys? Changing opacity during the stroke is accomplished by varying the pressure on the stylus but you probably already know that so I’m thinking that I still don’t understand what you are looking for.
I changed this from a feature request to a support request because I think you’re in the investigation stage at the moment.
No I actually turns off the pressure on my stylus to keep stroke consistency. I think changing opacity during the brushstroke is a great way to keep the consistency while still being able to shade.
So you want the size of the brush to stay constant (and that’s why you turned off pressure sensitivity) and you want only the opacity to change during the stroke.
You can do this by turning pressure on again and selecting a brush that doesn’t change size with pressure but does change opacity with pressure. Is that something you’ve already tried?
Sorry I meant that I want the opacity to stay consistent, I have no issues with size. My hand is shaky in the first place so maybe most people can make do with hovering their stylus precisely over the tablet, but I found that I can’t keep a consistent opacity when I use pressure.
I’m sorry, maybe I’m tired or something but I’m not getting it. There will be others online, perhaps someone else can try to help.
I think they want to change opacity at a constant rate (like when you use the keyboard shortcuts) but in the midst of a brush stroke without lifting the pen. The problem is that while you can use the keyboard shortcut to change the base opacity, it will not affect the current stroke. That’s because the base opacity settings is an argument for the drawing function that is copied at the time of function call. Changes while the function is running don’t change the copied value the function is using.