Hey! I'd like to confess here and now that I'm a complete newbie to both digital painting and Krita. I started painting in Paint Shop Pro X4 (basically a photo-editing software that happened to have pressure-sensitive brushes enabled) and I used the retouch tool (especially the Soften function) in my paintings a lot. I understand that Krita has no retouch tool because all of its functionalities can be built into the brushes. I, however, have no experience building my own brushes, and the lack of a Soften function is throwing me off.

I've been trying to use the Smudge brushes instead, but it's not quite the same, even with the smudge decreased to its lowest strength. It "pulls" too much at the canvas and picks up too much paint. I made a graphic to maybe show what I mean:



Top is the original swatch. Middle is Krita's Smudge_soft. Bottom is my old program's Soften brush. I don't know the technical differences between the two functions, but maybe somebody else will. Care to help me out?

Hello!

What you're looking for is something I'm sure is more commonly referred to as 'blurring' rather than 'blending. Krita actually has a brush like that by default called 'FX_blur_light' that should sate your needs. If not, you can always tinker with the settings until you're happy with it!



For more info on all the brush settings, check the documentation:
https://docs.krita.org/Filter

Hi, I'm new to Krita, and Linux, but also love to blend and can do that really well in Krita, as well as the textured and pencil brushes being so great too. These are the brushes and packs I use ... daveed's 8.2, ramon's muses, gdquest (the standard pack that can be bought in the store has a few in that are part of my staple blending brushes), rad's pack, and the basic_wet_soft that's inbuilt is great too. I may have forgotten some others, but you can't go wrong with these packs. Plenty of blenders in there too; soft, grained, and others. Many of these brushes are 'dulled' as opposed to 'smear', thus they blend. Hope you find some you really like in this list; can guarantee you will. (I also use A4 300dpi, at 16-bit, which helps further with blending, but don't worry about that if you're really new to Krita). Go to the Krita site, click on Resources, and you'll see links to many of the packs I've mentioned, and GDquest's sells in the Shop.