# Feedback Wanted: Marker Mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Artists Feedback & Testing\ **Tags:** linux, windows\ **Created:** [May 9, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229 "2025-05-09T13:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/1 "2025-05-09T13:07:42Z")
This is about adding a new Marker blend mode. It lets you draw over the same area of the canvas without the opacity on it building up across subsequent strokes. Color blending still works normally. It should work analogously to the Marker tool in Paint Tool SAI. The Marker blend mode is similar to the Greater blend mode, but Greater will refuse to paint anything until you exceed the opacity on the canvas, rather than blending the colors. It’s also similar to the Alpha Darken blend mode, but Alpha Darken will produce weird artifacts when you try to blend colors. → [Click here for a video showing it in use](https://drive.proton.me/urls/XB8MKZVHXC#AHKIiafhJ028). To use it, first set your brush’s Paint Mode is to Build Up to get the intended behavior. ![Setting paint mode to Build Up](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/4/2/42a5a1d36fcfebcd56c9427ff140b4cbd25e3e41.png) Then set the brush’s blend mode to Marker, under the Mix category. ![Setting blend mode to Marker](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/6/a/6ad71f5cde4cdc4ef9da57ae9d363232b7996640.png) (If you don’t see either of those options, you may have picked a brush that uses a brush engine that can’t do different kinds of blending.) Download links will be in a reply to this post because the forum won’t allow me put them into this post. ---
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/2 "2025-05-09T13:08:25Z")
Please try it out and leave feedback if this would be useful to have in Krita for you, if anything is misbehaving or anything else of that sort. **Download for Windows: [https://drive.proton.me/urls/VWTZH80JWG#CrkJSx6gTZOA](https://drive.proton.me/urls/VWTZH80JWG#CrkJSx6gTZOA)** **Download for Linux: [https://drive.proton.me/urls/AY1QFGH4Z8#Wr76Giu6OVBu](https://drive.proton.me/urls/AY1QFGH4Z8#Wr76Giu6OVBu)** ---
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/3 "2025-05-09T13:09:09Z")
And the merge request with the source code is here: [https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge\_requests/2375/](https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2375/) ---
**Author:** ![Takiro](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/takiro/32/209381_2.png) [@Takiro](https://krita-artists.org/u/Takiro)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/4 "2025-05-09T14:12:33Z")
This looks like a useful addition. I liked using Greater blending mode but it annoyed me that you can’t draw over it with a different color (while keeping Greater), so I kinda stopped using it for the most part. So basically it is Greater and Color blending mode simultaneously? ---
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/5 "2025-05-09T14:28:45Z")
It’s kind of like Greater for the alpha channel and Normal for the color channels, so it should solve the issue you had with Greater. It’s not related to the Color blend mode, that one only affects hue and saturation. ---
**Author:** ![Hologram](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hologram](https://krita-artists.org/u/Hologram)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/6 "2025-05-11T09:55:19Z")
@Drawpile looks promising! Would you mind testing this mode with these brushes: > [@Realistic Copic marker like brushes](https://krita-artists.org/t/realistic-copic-marker-like-brushes/41203): > > Although the default marker brushes aren’t bad, I still think they aren’t capturing the way Copic markers work. In reality, the Copic ink comes out wet and takes a while to dry, in the meantime, it can be mixed very easily with other colours as the ink flows. They also tend to bleed and darken as ink is drawn out by the paper as long as the marker touches it. For reference: [[Marker pen rendering] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCIBxTDJIp0) Check out the most recent version of the Real Copic marker brush set below. Thanks to @… ---
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/7 "2025-05-11T10:57:24Z")
You can’t use masked brushes in build-up mode, so the brush doesn’t work as-is. Disabling the masking part makes it work fine, minus the funky effect where it erases part of the stroke you made retroactively. In Wash mode, you instead get resulting opacity dependent on the maximum opacity you set in your brush, which may still be a useful effect. The blending brush included in the bundle is just a color smudge brush, which doesn’t use the blend mode in the way you configured it and so changing that doesn’t make a difference. ---
**Author:** ![EyeOdin](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/eyeodin/32/2662_2.png) [@EyeOdin](https://krita-artists.org/u/EyeOdin)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/8 "2025-05-11T12:00:39Z")
Not gonna lie, I would use a brush like that. I like greater too but it is painting yourself into a corner in a way. this seems to give freedom back to the brush. Looks very cool. ---
**Author:** ![cromachina](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/cromachina/32/131366_2.png) [@cromachina](https://krita-artists.org/u/cromachina)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/9 "2025-05-11T15:59:19Z")
I use SAI and it’s marker brush a lot, and I suggested this brush behavior as an addition to Drawpile. I find it really pleasant for sketching, lines, coloring, or anything really. One more plus is that Marker obeys layer alpha lock, but Alpha Darken does not (I think this is a bug with Alpha Darken). ---
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/10 "2025-10-13T14:36:44Z")
New builds that also include the other SAI blend modes: - [Windows Application](https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZPXZRMZN6R#Eecjx8aDCgeH) - [Linux AppImage](https://drive.proton.me/urls/75JW0YCMP0#DVNrEJCc4W0m) - [Android APK](https://drive.proton.me/urls/W3PZY4S11M#FMAAEAsa0Kpw) - [Source code](https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2495) See also [Feedback Wanted: Paint Tool SAI Blend Modes, PSD compatibility, Shine Fixes](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-paint-tool-sai-blend-modes-psd-compatibility-shine-fixes/144191) ---
**Author:** ![SchrodingerCat](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/schrodingercat/32/137932_2.png) [@SchrodingerCat](https://krita-artists.org/u/SchrodingerCat)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/11 "2025-10-13T16:55:53Z")
I played around with the settings a bit and I’d say it’s very good. I think this new blending mode is perfect and very similar to SAI’s. I’d have to try it out more by doing some drawing, but I feel like it’s pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/drawpile/32/140367_2.png) [@Drawpile](https://krita-artists.org/u/Drawpile)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/12 "2025-10-27T15:44:15Z")
Marker mode is merged and in Krita Next now, which is available [on the download page of krita.org](https://krita.org/en/download/) under “Krita Next Nightly Builds”. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/1X/e446d8b3077ddf6dfb5b2cd65199c20095b47dcf.png) [@system](https://krita-artists.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/feedback-wanted-marker-mode/123229/13 "2025-10-31T15:44:18Z")
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