I have been doing my absolute best to re-create a neon brush often used in other software and despite my efforts, i just cannot do it.
The main feature seems pretty simple, the brush must be a soft brush and be bright in the middle, fading toward the outer edges.
The idea is this
1, you draw a single line and the inside is nearing pure white, fading to selected colour
or
2, instead of the solid colour, the more you go over the same spot the brighter it gets until finally being white, fading off into the chosen colour.
eventually being able to move away from softer brushes and into more complicated ones but all using the same function, bright on the inside and chosen colour either thick on the edges or fading out until 0 opacity
welcoming any answers on what settings to tweak, i tried blending modes but it tends to complicate images on many layered projects.
somewhere in the dodge, burn, lighten categories perhaps??
I know how to make things glow in a multitude of ways but i really want to have it accessible in brush form.
Check “Neon brush packs” for procreate for examples
i’d be keen to see how you use it in that way! i have tried colour dodge with a soft brush but it still doesn’t get the effect.
colour dodge does well for me to create the glow, but… not the entire piece in one stroke!!
any chance you could show me an example of your neon signs and explain how you get there?
Have you tried or able to try FX Explode or FX Glow? To me, these sound close to what you want. The top left are Glow and the bottom are Explode. They are part of the Krita 3 default resources bundle.
I started with Krita 5.0, so I know the bundle is out there. Unfortunately, I do not remember how I downloaded it, if it came with the initial install or found later.
The Krita 3 default bundle should be shown in the Resources Library where you can activate/deactivate it: Settings → Manage Resource Libraries.
I think it’s deactivated by default so you’ll have to activate it.
well - if you search neon krita it comes up with all of the ways to create a neon glow effect using layers and blur, i already know how to do that! i want to create a neon effect with a single stroke
thanks for the leads… i tried them but they just don’t do what i need - i want to be able to paint as if it is neon sign lighting - check out all of the brush types when you type “Neon brush procreate”
looks to me that having the “Addition” blending mode in the “Masked Brush” section of the Brush Editor may help. This way you could control the “Neon” effect on that brush, while controlling the faded color separately. I noticed the more opaque the brush tip the more you lose that faded effect going outward on the two FX defaults. If there was a “Addition” blending mode in the “Masked Brush” section you could use a smaller size/ more opaque brush tip to be the bright glow (controlled by its 'flow" properties) and a larger/ low opaque brush tip to control the faded color as the main brush. I am saying this as a thought, not a expert on the Brush Engine stuff, so not sure if I am correct. Maybe someone on here that knows could chime in.
According to this commit, the Krita 3 bundle was excluded on Android due to filesize limits publishing on the Play Store. (Three years ago, I wonder if that limit’s still relevant anymore?) It can be downloaded from the repository, though.
