Does Krita, just like CSP, support color layers properties to
temporarily shift a layer to a sketch one, especially for inking ?
( I believe it’s something almost like onion skin, except that it is not
for animation, but for comic )
Reference from CSP : https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/8257
From the back of my head, I know there was a discussion on such a topic, I guess back in 2024 or 2025, which exactly I can not say. It was about a blue (bluish) sketch layer and inking, and I believe, among others, @Deevad and @YRH were participants of this discussion, but this can be wrong. So if you want to try our forum search on this, you should have the parameters to begin with.
Found it:
If that has what you are searching for, I don’t know, and if you need more, in the upper right is a magical tool … 
Michelist
There’s something they all got wrong for the coloring.
No blending mode should be applied.
Instead they should use a gradient map function for the colors.
This is such a bummer.
I wish I was there to quickly inform them soon !
Aaahhh! This is such a bummer man!!!
No blending mode, so screen mode, just normal.
But application of gradient map.
Clip Studio works the exact same way :
I can’t believe I missed this!
Aaahhh…I regret.
But Hopefully it’s not too late.
I’ll make a post about it.
Thank you for sharing Michelist.
Yes, Krita has Layer Styles / Filter Masks that can shift a layer’s color temporarily, and you can use Layer Opacity and Blending Modes to mimic CSP’s sketch-style tinting while inking. It’s not called the same as CSP’s color layer property, but you can achieve the same effect.
I would simply have a separate normal layer and use blue color to do my sketch, (label it Sketch) then when I’m happy with my sketch and ready, I’d make another normal layer with the intended color and trace over it and color it in to my liking.
CSP doesn’t use a blending mode to achieve it.
It uses the same logic behind gradient map for brightest and darkest value.
This was already discussed in the thread. You can read the thread. I think there were performance issues.
Also you do not need to set it up manually there is a shortcut and menu item for that. There also also two types of modes one for images with transparency and one for opaque black and white drawings.
Have you used the feature why do you think gradient map is the right choice? If the work gets done (for me it gets done) why does it matter if it is gradient map or blend mode?
Gradient map is the right choice simply because it matches perfectly how the feature works in CSP.
But like you said, the problem we have in Krita with these, is performance.
We indeed need zero delay performance even with the application of multiple active filter masks or filter layers.
Note : I say gradient map for the pure logic of how the feature works. I do not know if Krita will separately include color properties for a layer in the same fashion as CSP to favor the sketch layer conversion in just one click.
Have you used the current feature? Why does it matter if the underlying method matches CSP or not if it works and gets the job done then well and good right
I have used the current feature in Krita( Color Overlay ). And it is incredibly stuttery
although, it does take the darkest value into account, and the result
is very very close to expectation.
Now to the question of why it matters, It is purely because of precision.
It is 100% inspired from a Clip Studio feature.
And all I have done is expose further how this feature works, explaining that
it functions like color mapping between the darkest and brightest values of the layer
affected.
Now, are you going to say that precision is pointless in this case?
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