Hi! As I only discovered Krita recently I'm still in the process of getting into it. There is a crazy ammount of blending modes, but I think most of them can be safely ignored when I want to use Krita for painting.

Comming directly from Photoshop, I already noticed a few of my old faves. So this is what I have right now:

Arithmetic > Multiply
Colorizing lineart. Good for simulating the darkening of subtractive medias, such as water colors.

Darken > Darken
Really great for pencil simulation, since a B2 lead only darkens the paper up to a certain threshold.

Darken > Burn
Good for colorizing greyscales, if you want natural hue shift.

HSY > Color
Which HSX you choose makes a difference. (Gamma Dark or others might also be used.)
Can desaturate with grey, or adjust the colors.
Useful for colorizing grisailles.

Lighten > Color Dodge
For painting with light - flames, glows, lightbeams, hightlight, lasers, etc. Use dark, 100 % saturated colors. Be subtle.

Lighten > Lighten
Similar to darken, this one paints only when the stroke is lighter than the canvas.
Nice for brightening the too-dark areas.

Misc > Combine Normal Map
Pretty good for psychodelia, as the colors shift like crazy.

Misc > Dissolve
Useful for non-antialiased inking, or pixel-tones in pixelart drawings.

Mix > Erase
Erasing towards transparent.

Mix > Greater
Blends based on the opacity of the stroke and background. Might be good for something.

Mix > Normal
Pretty useful for painting, actually.

So ... that's what I have so far! Are there any other Krita Blending Modes which are good for painting?

Hey,
I made a video tutorial about it in the past:
http://www.davidrevoy.com/article262/pa ... ding-modes
It's not explaining the whole list, but focus on the one I found essential for painting.

Thanks Deevad - as it happens, I watched it just before my post! Actually, I did 'borrow' a few of the blending modes from it.

I noticed a few other subtractive blending modes:

Arithmetic > Inverse Subtract
Arithmetic > Subtract
Darken > Darker Color
Darken > Gamma Dark
Darken > Linear Burn
Darken > Burn

But I'm not sure any of them can offer anything that make them a worthwhile multiply replacement. Still, some of them had some more vivid color mixing, compared to the more bland Multiply.

This thread is really lovely, personally I mostly use hard light and overlay layers, but these are worth checking out n__n

When you want to mix colors on the canvas you need to use a low flow, and anything the layer modes can do can be created without the layer modes. There is also brush modes that has more than what the layer modes, like Color brush mode is very useful to change the color after something is painted. It will fill in transparent areas, and not something you would want to do. If you mix colors on the canvas, then there are more primary colors you might need to add. Primary colors go like this Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue. You can not skip over green to mix blue and yellow, because traditionally that would make green and primary color are colors you can't mix. You can't mix and get green. If your flow is kind of high, the paint wants to replace the color, and not mix with it. With a low flow you van mix color, but they will be influenced with anything under the colors unless the base color is filled 100%, then you can use a low flow to add color to it for a mix. Like skin color, and redness of the skin, like a sore spot, or light passing though an ear, showing the blood in the ear as if glows. If you'd like to blend two colors together in general, in a more paint like manner, I recommend experimenting with the mixer brush available in newer versions of Photoshop.