Hello, I’m having a problem with Layer Styles. This is the first time I’ve used this feature and when I try to add effects, it falls under the background layer and I can’t see the effect unless I make the background layer invisible. How can I put the effects on top of the background layer, preferably on the actual layer itself?
There are a speech bubble and a random shape on the pictures and as you can see the effects are not visible. (I’m using Krita 5 btw)
Thank you in advance.
Hello and welcome to the forum 
What is the complete version number?
Which operating system are you using?
Which layer style(s) are you using?
Can you upload a screenshot of the Layer Style window?
Edit:Add: Why isn’t that white shape showing on the layer thumbnail in the layers docker?
I’m using Windows 10 and Krita x64-5.0.6.
I used the drop shadow, but any other layer style is not showing up either.
Here are the screenshots (I actually didn’t save the previous one but I created a similar example, in the last example I drew both shapes in the same layer, now I used two separate layers)
Thank you for the answer.
With the same layer style and same settings as you, I don’t have a problem:
You don’t show a screenshot of the problem with the background layer visible.
The only way I can get a similar problem to the one you initially posted is if I set the layer style blending mode to Subtract instead of Multiply.
If you still have this problem, can you make the .kra file available by providing a link to a file sharing service or website>?
Here is the link, I’m still having the same problem unfortunately:’((
I should have looked more closely at the status bar of your later images.
(I should have asked to see the status bar from your first images.)
You are using a CMYK/A colour space. The blending modes behave differently with CMYK/A images.
I converted the document to RGB/A by using Image → Convert Image Colour Space:
The status bar now shows it to be RGB/A and layers styles work as expected.
You should always work with RGB/A 8-bit integer default, unless you have a good and well understood reason for using any other colour space.
Thank you so much for your help, I changed it and finally it works!! 
As a side note, are you aware that krita has vector libraries and there is a collection of speech bubbles that you can use?
You drag them out of the Vector Libraries docker onto a Vector Layer, then you can move and resize them as you wish.
Here they are with layer style set to Drop Shadow and a thin Stroke:
You get the vector Libraries docker by Settings → Dockers → Vector Libraries:
You need speech bubbles? Maybe the plugin “Rogudator’s Speech Bubble Generator” would be interesting for you. There you can compose different speech bubbles with a click of a button, enter the desired text and then have the speech bubble generated.
Michelist
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