Photoshop mixer brush alternative in Krita

[Majid]

Mates, I am new to Krita, and it is woooonderful!
I have a question:
Is there any way to mimic the “mixer brush” of photoshop?
Here is what may I get using this brush:

[Takiro]

This should be possible with a gradient brush

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Or a simple stamps brush, depends a bit.

But it’s still different from Photoshop’s Mixer Brush Tool.

[Mythmaker]

If you save that sphere as an RGBA brush tip, you should be able to closely replicate those using the pixel or colour smudge engines.

As Takiro said though - it’s not the same as a mixer brush. The closest thing we have at present is probably the clone brush (you might be able to sample and drag the sphere with that). In future we should be able to combine the clone brush with pixel and colour smudge for more mixer-like behaviour (we’ve discussed it at length in a couple of other threads).

[CrazyCatBird]

I thought that these brushes that come with Krita do that:

I use these more now that I kinda know how they work (light pressure for blending, heavier pressure to apply more color)

[SchrodingerCat]

I would like a mixing engine like Sai’s, the closest thing now is the Mypaint engine.

[Mythmaker]

The mixer brush referred to has particular qualities; allowing sampling and replicating parts of the canvas, blending that with palette colours, and smudging.

You often see it manifest in digital paintings as areas of texture repeated as a stroke. That is similar to using the clone brush in Krita, but has a lot more flexibility as mentioned above.

Note: this is only my understanding from what I’ve seen and read - I’ve never actually used it myself.

Here’s the thread from a few months ago where we discussed expanding the clone brush functionality:

[Proposal] Combine Colorsmudge and Clone Brush engines

These updates are so much fun to paint with, I would need to take some time to come up with good feeling, finished brush presets. Krita 5 will be a blast, I have a feeling. Considering these great changes to height and smudge functions, would it be feasible to combine this with a clone function? I mean to sample multiple colors at once like the clone tool instead of a single color. That would make it even more realistic since when you paint and the brush is dirty/filled with colo…

[Majid]

This is the best result I got, out of clone brush. This is almost the same as Mixer brush of photoshop, except for one thing: In Ps, it repeats the source regardless of the brush size. In Krita, you have to set the source and the result to the same size.

Here is the smudge brush setting (The result is on the right side of the page)

[TheFlow]

Jep, exactly. We’ve been in the talk with Dmitry about it, we might get a better way to sample those cloned stamps so they also keep their size and rotation. It could potentially happen with Krita 5.1, not earlier. Wel’ll see but it is great that we already have these capabilities in Krita right now.

[hulmanen]

If I understand this correctly, a Python plugin to automate turning a selection into an RGBA brushstamp and assigning it to the current brush would go a long way, the tricky part would be making the selection based on the current brush size. Too hacky?