New user here – need help with a problem in Krita

Tech Support General Questions
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Hi everyone I am new to the forum and also fairly new to using Krita. I joined this community because I have been running into a problem while working on my artwork and I’m hoping someone here might be able to guide me.Recently I noticed that when I try to use certain brushes or layers, the results are not behaving the way I expect. I’m not sure if this is due to my settings, my workflow, or something I might be doing wrong since I’m still learning the software.I searched around a bit but couldn’t find a clear solution, so I thought it would be best to ask here and get advice from more experienced users.If anyone has experienced something similar or knows what might be causing this, I would really appreciate your help. I can also provide screenshots or more details if needed.Thanks in advance

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not sure if i can help, but i might be able to

can give me screenshots and tell me what brushes you’re using and what you’re trying to do?

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Thanks for replying I really appreciate it I will prepare some screenshots so you can see exactly what’s happening. The issue appears when I try to use the brush while working on a layer, and the result doesn’t look like what I expect.I will also check the exact brush name I’m using and share it here along with the screenshots so it’s easier to understand the problem.Thanks again for offering to help

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i have to go to bed in a few minutes. . .

I’ll help you tomorrow if i can if it’s still unresolved

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You need to be clear in how it doesn’t work, try to describe it :slight_smile: Screenshots would be great.

  1. What are you doing? (Using the brush on a layer, I gather from your text).Is it all brushes or just a few?
  2. What do you expect to happen?
  3. What happens instead/what is different from what you expect?
    (more techie people probably have better, more precise questions, I’m just a regular user)

From top of my head I can imagine a few scenarios, such as having toggled a layer blending mode, or brush blending mode, or chosen a brush with a certain effect, or an opacity setting, or having selected a pattern instead of a color. Or it could be something else, but since I have no idea how it’s behaving it’s hard to tell. “Doesn’t look like what I expect” can mean so many things. :slight_smile:

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Check what color space and profile you have for your document.

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Thanks everyone for offering to helpI was about to take the screenshots, but while checking the settings again I decided to look up a few tutorials and I found a video that explained the issue. It turns out it was just a small setting that I had configured incorrectly.I have fixed it now and everything seems to be working normally again.Really appreciate the quick responses and willingness to help

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It would be useful/helpful/interesting to know what that video tutorial is and to know what the ‘small setting’ was. Can you please give a link and an explanation?
This forum has lots of ‘community memory’ and anything that can add to that would be useful in helping other people in the future.

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Thanks for the suggestion you are right it might help someone else in the future.

This is the video I watched that helped me understand the issue:

Krita Custom Brushes – Linking Opacity, Size and Flow to Pressure

In my case the problem was related to the brush pressure settings. The brush I was using didn’t have the pressure configured the way I expected, so the strokes looked strange when drawing.After opening the Brush Editor (F5) and checking the settings, I noticed that the pressure option for size/opacity wasn’t configured the way I needed. Once I adjusted that, the brush started behaving normally again. In Krita you can enable or disable pen pressure for things like brush size or opacity in the brush settings panel. So it turned out to be a small configuration thing rather than a bug.Thanks again to everyone who offered help