I alt + click on a group to see it in isolate mode.
But now I like to edit a filter of another layer, while still seeing the above mentioned group.
My issue:
If I click on the filter (either right click or left click), the isolate mode switches to this filter. This is unfortunate, because I like to see the effect, the filter has to the group, not the filter itself.
Is there a way to keep the group being shown when editing the filter?
Krita 5.2.6 or 5.2.9 or 5.3 prealpha on Windows 10 / 11
I don’t know a way with isolation mode for the action you want to achieve.
Maybe this is a way for you, but you need to activate the filter with that:
I have put the button Toggle layer visibility into two of my toolbars, and select those layers I want to hide and click on this button, but the command is also found in the RMB menu of the layer stack. This is a quick way to enable/disable the layers I need for actions like the one you want to do.
Michelist
Apart from manually hiding all other layers, all I can think of is copying the layer group and pasting it to a new file (or making the group a file layer and opening it that way).
This manually hiding of all layers is quickly done, just select all layers and then deselect only those you want to manipulate, to work with, then click the button to hide/show the selected layers or use the menu command or shortcut if you assigned one.
Michelist
I could be misunderstanding the situation, but alt + click is for isolating a layer. When you right-click on a layer, you can see that you can isolate the active group. Isn’t that what you’re looking for?
Oh… To me, it read as though they wanted to edit the filter while still in isolation mode.
@Someonesane, I understood it exactly like you. →
Michelist
I really like this forum and it’s members 
The right click → isolate group works in this case.
I always used Alt + Click which only triggers Isolate Layer but not Isolate Group. I was not aware, that Isolate Group is awailable. Yea, I learned something new.
The visibility toggle will not work in this specific case because the group setup is using Destination In blend mode which needs the processing of everything to drive the luminance to alpha mask trick. If a layer’s visibility toggle is off, then this layer is not processed anymore and I just get an empty result. But if Isolate group is used, the values of the layers used for driving the alpha blending are still being processed, even though the image itself is not shown.
This is an amazingly powerful image editing capability of Krita and challanges even the luma masking in Affinity or Photoshop with respect to how I understood those apps.
EDIT:
Yes, that’s what I was after.
Good thing is that we have @Katamaheen!
Michelist
… and you and all the other helpful minds here.
It’s like a swarm intelligence that finds solutions for more or less everything
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