Dual Brush Implementation

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Hi,
I searched this up and apparently, this has been suggested a few times. But I was recently watching this video by BoroCG: Best Realistic Digital Brush. Beginner & Pro - YouTube.
There is a lot of really cool and realistic techniques you can create with dual brushes. Currently, in Krita you can define a masked brush however it doesn’t affect the actual stroke.
Just wondering if this is going to be implemented in the future or is it completely off the table. This is probably more of a complex feature for sure.

Keep up the amazing work!

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Can you please show an example of a stroke that can be done with the dual brush and cannot be done with masked brush? What features are missing? Or maybe you could point to the exact point in the video, too?

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Hi,
Sorry about that,
I am thinking of what is shown at 12:43 in the video where the second brush affects the areas of the first brush so there is realistic variation. Unless I am missing something, and this is possible with the masked brush?
Thanks for taking a look.

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He uses rotation for the masked brush, this is done in the brush settings, in the “Masked Brush” you could enable rotation, as a sample by “Fuzzy Dab”, -5° to +5°. (He uses 10°)

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Yeah, exactly. Masked brush affects the areas of the first brush by design, that’s the whole point of masked brush (I think that’s even why it’s called “masked” in Krita instead of “double” since it was thought it would be more clear what it does). And the rotation is one of the options you can use.

Some random attempts:

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O, Cool thanks so much. I must be doing something wrong in the creation of the brush then. Should I delete my post, to prevent confusion?

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No, I can always move it to Questions :wink: Maybe make a screenshot of your brush settings and we’ll see what’s wrong?

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Awesome, thanks.

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Well, as far as I can see, the kind of effect is not possible in Krita right now. The brush shown in the video combines masking and blending (smudging).

It’d certainly be nice if the colour smudge engine could get a masking option - but I guess that won’t happen any time soon, given that currently the rgba addition is in the works (which I’m really looking forward to…).

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Ahh, that makes sense. Yes, I’d want to have masked brush in the smudge tool, too :wink:

The RGBA addition is nearly working already :slight_smile:

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I guess another reason was to not confuse it with the multibrush where you in fact can have two or more of the same brush simultaneously.

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I don’t know if this is relevant anymore but, after applying flow to the masked brush the texture doesnt affect the area where the flow is present. Not sure if this is intentional or not? having textures also applied to masks would be nice.
Have a good one.

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