[image] So I’m very new to Krita and I’m wondering how do I stop the colors from becoming streaky. It doesn’t matter what colors or brushes I’m using I keep getting the green bits in it and the shading isn’t smooth at all. The canvas was 3000x3000 pixels and 300 dpi, I was using the soft airbrush…

The default air brush preset is really not that great, try some smudge brushes instead, I find they give a really nice result. If that’s still not enough you have to work in a higher bit depth. Standard is 8 bit per channel. Some banding will probably always be visible. Most of the time I don’t find…

You can check this thread if you want to know more about banding issue and dithering in krita. [image] Color Banding and how to worka around it. Softer brushes. Resources Inroduction Every time we try to crate smooth color transitions we experience Color Banding. This occ…

@Takiro @Lesqwe56 thank you! This has really helped a lot!

Telling people to use higher bit depth doesnt fix it at all. It only increases density of collor banding. And banding will be back anyways whenever you get bit depth deacreased by hand or by hosting sites. Krita has really poor dithering and there is not much you can do about it, other than few wo…

@Zer0Frost Ah okay, Thank you for telling me, It’s a real shame that the dithering isn’t good but I’ll have a look at clip studio paint instead.

I don’t know what your doing but it seems your pushing HSV straight up or wiggle the Hue left and right when going to highlights. that is beyond odd. Lighting has rules attached to them and you gotta respect them more than just throwing paint at it. This is beyond just the banding problem. I was tr…

How about the soft brush of mypaint engine?

You should test all avalible drawing programs and see what tools suits your needs :slight_smile: In my experience CSP had the nicest/smoothest blending and for some reason it felt like working in 16 bit while it was 8 but IMO its inferior to Krita in all other ways :slight_smile: @TheTwo I used it…

Color and shading problem

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Lesqwe56 December 5, 2021, 6:19am 3

You can check this thread if you want to know more about banding issue and dithering in krita.