Hello, every krita artist. I learn a lot from krita… Thanks to David Revoy for tutorial videos.
I want to draw the same steps.
David Revoy’s tutorial video
I am facing a problem, at 1:07 filling the canvas with 50% gray does not work as it should. In this video shows Hard-Light blending mode works perfectly in Group-Layer, but I did same thing on krita I created new layer then fill canvas with 50% grey (127,127,127 #7f7f7f), the “shade” layer doesn’t have transparency.
It works only I toggle “α” or the “shade” (Hard-light blending) layer isn’t located in group. (It works normally when Hard-Light layer isn’t located Group. Sorry, I mean it works well when I use Hard-Light)
I put layer set as Hard-Light filled-50%grey into group then doesn’t have transparency.
I’m missing some settings? How I can do the same blending in Group-Layer.
I want to set-up same drawing setting the tuto video show at 1:10. An Hard-Light layer located in a group and just toggled Hard-Light blending mode.
I use Krita 5.0.6, win10 64bit, bottom of the info bar shows [RGB Alpha (8bit/channel) sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc]
Thank you for reading.
[Edit] solved
I look closely my layer I didn’t put BG layer into the group with other layers “Ink, Hard-Light, color”.
I put BG layer outside the layer groups. Once all the layers were put in the same group, as in the video, transparency grey Hard-Light has was perfectly enabled.
I assume you want to have the layer in that group but it should affect a layer that is not in that group, right? For this there is a small icon on the group, looks like a brick wall, clicking on it will set the group in passthrough mode (indicated by a arrow through that wall).
More on this here
The group is usually for limiting the scope of effects so hard light would only apply to any layer on that group and under the hard light layer itself, not to the layer outside the group, even when it’s below. (Think of the groups as self contained sub-images, the layers outside don’t know what’s going on in a group)
In passthrough mode all the layers in that group act like they’re not in a group at all, it’s only for organisation then.
Alternately you could set the blending mode on the group layer itself. This is like giving all the layers in that group the same blending mode and having passthrough enabled, probably not what you want.
Most of the time it’s best to simply put layers that should affect each other in the same group because things like passthrough mode or blending modes on group layers can get confusing easily.
When you look closely, you see that in the video the shading layer and the color layer are in the same group, too.
Thank you for reply. I finally found the answer. I’m sorry I was mistaken and missed layer settings. I thought I did the same thing (…but actually I didn’t do same thing 
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I look closely my layer I didn’t put BG layer into the group with other layers “Ink, Hard-Light, color”.
I put BG layer outside the layer groups. Once all the layers were put in the same group, as in the video, transparency grey Hard-Light has was perfectly enabled.
Thank you very much.
Yes, most blending modes only work when there’s something they can blend with, the background layer in your case.