Hi! I’m just new in Krita and can’t figure out how to set the brush or the layer so I can draw with transparent background. I want to export my drawings as PNGs with a transparent background but they look like they were painted over a white paper. Also darken blending doesn’t seem to have the same effect.
Hi @Ronia - I moved your question into it’s own thread.
Please don’t change the subject of existing threads by asking an unrelated question.
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It wasn’t an unrelated question. On the original post says that with transparent background brush gets a white outline, and also share some tips to work with transparent background. But it wasn’t working for me. So the question was about the actual brush and how to work with it.
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I flagged your post, sorry. It felt like it could be unrelated, as your problem is about creating a transparent background (which is beginner knowledge). If you want a transparent background, you gotta get rid of the white background. Just create a layer on top and delete or reduce opacity to 0 the white layer.
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Hello @Ronia and welcome to the forum!
It is easy to get a transparent background, at least in principle, just click on the eye-icon in front of the background layer and your background can’t be seen “what makes it transparent” for saving, the important thing is to save with the correct settings.
For instance, I made a canvas via CTRL + N I took over the given settings, so Krita created a canvas with a paint layer and a background layer for me and that seems to be white. On the created paint layer I made two simple strokes, and before I exported this “picture” I deactivated the background layer, what makes it unseeable and thus the picture transparent. In the saving dialog, I chose PNG as format to export and the settings from my screenshot.
And here you see the two strokes I made, and that it was saved including the transparency. But I did not try it with that brush, and don’t know if that is true with the white outline.
If you can’t save with a transparent background, like I described,
can you describe briefly for us what you tried so far and what did not work?
@Katamaheen, it is enough to disable the view of the white background to “see” it transparent, if I understood it correctly.
Michelist,
who now has to sleep, my eyes are constantly closing while writing. Good night, see you!
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Oh I forgot about the eye! I even use it like that, am I stupid? 
Good night!
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@Ronia In case of difficulty or misunderstanding, it’s a good idea to post a full screen screenshot to show what your situation is.
Also: Which version of krita are you using and where did you get it from?
Which operating system are you uisng?
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@Ronia
Lots of people ready to help you here. As you can see from all the questions, your topic is an important one and not something that could be answered in a single, quick post.
This forum is how I learned how to use Krita. I hope it will work the same way for you, too.
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As always Michelist.
You were able to answer simply and completely.
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Yeah… my problem is not about creating a transparent background, it’s about drawing with the brush from the original post ON a transparent background. Because this brush creates a sort of white outline when used on a transparent background. So to fix this issue, the brush creator recommended to use it on a flat layer, which is what I don’t know what it is.
Also, he recommended to use the brush with darken blending, but it doesn’t give the same effect.
So what I need is just a way to use the brush with transparent background.
PS: Thanks for taking the time to respond anyway.
This is what I said is happening to me in the last post.
That is not some kind of white outline. It’s pale blue.
You can see this with a white vs black background layer:
Hello @Michelist
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I interpret the flat layer as a normal paint layer, otherwise @mdfm28 would surely have named it more precisely. With any luck, he might be able to join this discussion and tell us more about the function of his Cheap Ballpoint pen Brush.
However, his statement is not that this white outline has to happen, but that it could happen and seems more like a possible unwanted side effect if you read his text carefully:
Michelist
Hello @AhabGreybeard!
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This is Off-Topic, my beloved topic, but to anwer @CristianPerez.Artist:
I just try to do my best to be understood.
And since I am not a native English speaker, and since I never know how well someone understands English, and also (almost) never know what skills with Krita or graphics programs a user has, I always try, if my time and health allow it, to write an answer that is as comprehensible and detailed as possible without room for interpretation. That’s all it is, after all, I just want to be understood.
And exactly the opposite of being understood is why people/peoples bash each other’s skulls in, because they (completely) misunderstand others, misinterpret because of messages in SMS style, just don’t write a word too much, it could hurt my fingers. And then there are also those who often feel attacked when they misunderstand something, although unfortunately there are more and more people who would also like to feel attacked, just so that they can then go berserk themselves. I want to rule that out as far as possible, at least most of the time.
Instead, I am often the one who answers second 
Michelist
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From what I understood from the explanations, “darken blending” would be the layer’s filter.
The first line is on a layer set to “darken”, and the second is on a layer set to “normal”. That might be the “white outline”.
The problem is that I don’t think the properties of the “darken” layer would work with the lines outside the circle when exporting with the transparent background. Unless there’s a way I don’t know of?
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Thanks for the responses!
I was trying with brush darken blending, but I didn’t know there is also a blending mode for layers.
As you point @Katamaheen if you set layer blending mode to “darken” you still have this weird colour when it is painted over transparent background. But I think I managed to make it work setting brush and layer blending mode to “darken” and also choosing a more saturated color. Stills not the same effect as a ballpoint pen, but close enough.
AhabGreybeard I was using a pale blue as mdfm28 recomended in his post, but I think actual brush just looks like it’s using alpha when you are painting over a white background but in reallity it is just a brightter version of the color you are using.
Also I read again my first post and just noticed that it wasn’t well explained and was easily misunderstood. Sorry for the poor explanation but I’m not a native English speaker either @Michelist.
Thanks again for your responses
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I guess the brush wasn’t made to be used with a transparent background. Maybe more on a white/colored/textured background. I think the “when using transparent layer” would probably be when drawing on a separate layer than on an opaque background, so that you can easily erase or transform your sketch. 
Just press “eye button” on background layer and then extract your image as png
Yep, you also fell into the misunderstanding I might be a little at fault. The problem here is that the brush in question has a light outline when drawing on a transparent background.
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