To the Dark Swamp

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Full title: A Passage to The Dark Swamp

My most recent fantasy work. The background draws a lot of inspiration from (graphics of) an old computer game “Dragonheart: Fire and Steel”.

Most of the painting was made in Krita. Still, I had to use dodge/burn tool from Gimp, because I haven’t figured out how to get the same thing done in Krita (I would be grateful if anyone could give some hints on that).

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Burn and Dodge are just blending modes that you can apply to any brush. Just use the dropdown on top of the canvas and change from Normal to Linear Dodge or Burn.

There are also some brushes that are already made exactly for this purpose, see here: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/krita_4_preset_bundle.html#adjustments

Your image is quite nice, I’m only confused about the white areas around? In the middle the background is more greenish with more trunks, so what is around, a thick fog?

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Thank you for the reply!

First, about the white areas in the picture. Yes, the idea was that white areas represent a thick fog, and then there is a passage inside the fog, leading to the Dark Swamp (more greenish area). Probably I should have added more “foggy” effect also to boundaries of the green area, so that the transition from fog to non-fog would be less sharp and more easily perceivable.

Second, thank you for pointing out the blending modes. If have tried these a little, but I stumbled upon a slight problem. If I understand correctly, all of these blending modes also add the currently selected color to the blending effect. So, if I select a green color, I get a greenish blend (dodge/burn), and with a red color the blend (the dodge/burn effect) will have a red tone. But what if I want my dodge/burn to change only colors on the layer, without any interference of the selected color? Gimp’s dodge/burn tool works that way: the selected color has no effect on the outcome of the dodge/burn effect. Is it possible to do the same thing in Krita?
Ok, I have to check out these adjustment burshes, maybe they’ll provide the effect that I desire.

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@kalaadrius Have you tried selecting white before using Color Dodge mode? I believe that should lead to the results you expect. (Unfortunately in Krita now there is no option to save the color inside a brush, so both Dodge and Burn brushes will have the same issue of being impacted by the current color - well, actually, some people believe it’s a feature, but… :wink: ).