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 …

Marker mode is merged and in Krita Next now, which is available on the download page of krita.org under “Krita Next Nightly Builds”.

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 Download for Linux: https://drive.proton.me/urls/AY1QFGH4Z8#Wr76Giu6OVBu

And the merge request with the source code is here: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2375/

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?

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.

@Drawpile looks promising! Would you mind testing this mode with these brushes: [image] Realistic Copic marker like brushes Brushes and Bundles Although the default marker brushes aren’t bad, I still think they aren’t capturing the way Copic markers work. In reality, the C…

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…

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.

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…

New builds that also include the other SAI blend modes: Windows Application Linux AppImage Android APK Source code See also Feedback Wanted: Paint Tool SAI Blend Modes, PSD compatibility, Shine Fixes

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.

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@Drawpile looks promising! Would you mind testing this mode with these brushes: