I'm trying to recreate some custom made Photoshop brushes in Krita. I have the settings, and I know that not everything is supported so I don't expect to get everything absolutely identical.

At the moment I'm trying to work out how to recreate the Duel Brush settings in Krita 4.1.5 using the Masked Brush. I'm doing OK, except I have one small issue - that masked brush is applied to the entire paint stroke on every dab rather than the brush tip. This means for example that if I made a U-shaped stoke the masked brush will cover any part of the rest of the stroke it overlaps. I only want it to affect the dab.

Here's what I mean - I'm applying a light pressure and that masked brush is going over every part of the stroke making it darker as a result:
https://imgur.com/a/KeN4NfW

Is there a way to stop this and limit the effects of the masked brush to each dab, the same as the normal brush tip would?

chriswebb wrote:I'm trying to recreate some custom made Photoshop brushes in Krita. I have the settings, and I know that not everything is supported so I don't expect to get everything absolutely identical.

At the moment I'm trying to work out how to recreate the Duel Brush settings in Krita 4.1.5 using the Masked Brush. I'm doing OK, except I have one small issue - that masked brush is applied to the entire paint stroke on every dab rather than the brush tip. This means for example that if I made a U-shaped stoke the masked brush will cover any part of the rest of the stroke it overlaps. I only want it to affect the dab.

Here's what I mean - I'm applying a light pressure and that masked brush is going over every part of the stroke making it darker as a result:
https://imgur.com/a/KeN4NfW

Is there a way to stop this and limit the effects of the masked brush to each dab, the same as the normal brush tip would?

I think we have everything in Krita to mimic what Photoshop dual brush can, as Krita had the settings that' can be found in Photoshop's Dual Brushes, like size, spacing, mode, x flip, scatter(I believe, we just don't have count to greatly increase the dabs but I just let the spacing take its role somehow, relatively). Krita just had way more things we can control that photoshop does not have, like pressure/random/angle/tilt/etc.. control over the second brush's opacity, flow, rotation, size, etc... I think Krita also lays the two brushes together the same way, maybe there are just some settings that are making it harder that you need to tweak.

In your case, I think you may want to control the size and spacing of the second brush to about the size and spacing of your first brush and watch the other settings. More control can have it's pros and cons, and may make you need to tweak more of them to get what you want. Make sure it lands the way you want on top of your first brush.

What I find really different between Krita and Photoshop brushes are the textures. Krita's only have a few modes that can make it really hard to take photoshop brushes to krita exactly. In this situation, I'd take the brush to Krita and try to make it better, keeping the elements I love about those brush somehow.

It's also worth noticing how the flow behaves. In Krita the flow makes the brushes more whispy, it makes the brush's edges feel more feathered.