Hello,

I am new to the Krita community, and this is my first post! I am excited to write here.

First and foremost I would like to say thank you for this wonderful piece of software. I definitely intend on becoming a patron soon.
Please forgive me in advance for any lack of proper terminology below. On to my question...

I have a question about the 'select by color' function:

I do not know if it is down to me not knowing how to do what it is I want to do, in Krita, or if Photoshop offers a feature which does not exist yet in Krita.

Currently, the 'select by color' feature in Krita does not have a range to the fuzziness. E.g. if I select a mid-grey, it seems to select 100% opacity of those pixels? The fuzziness feature seems to works the same as in Photoshop (which has been my go-to editing application), but the results do vary due to what I have described above.

Please see the image below:



The way in which I use this tool:
I usually select a color range from an image, and then paint with a soft brush (e.g. the airbrush) to create interesting contours.

Let me know if there is something which I have not quite understood with the tool!

Thanks!

Hello, not sure i've understand the question... but there is a fuziness cursor for the select by color tool : it's in the "tool options" docker/button.

Welcome to the community!

Yes, as far as I'm aware the Similar Color Selection Tool can't create a soft selection falloff. Only the Contiguous Selection Tool (the magic wand) does, but it only selects local, connected areas of similar color, so there is no one-click way to get a global soft color selection. I think such an option would be a useful addition to the Similar Color Selection Tool. We may want to create a feature proposal for it.

For now, you can use the Color to Alpha filter for this purpose instead https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_man ... r-to-alpha
When you click on the Color Picker input, the color selector dialog has an eyedropper button that lets you pick directly from the canvas.

So your workflow can be: Duplicate your working layer, then use the Color to Alpha filter on the duplicate. Then activate the alpha lock on the layer (the checkerboard icon on the right), or use Select Opaque (from the layers stack right-click menu) if want to work on a separate layer.
Or alternatively: Add a Filter Layer (from the dropdown menu right next to the + icon at the bottom of the Layers docker), choose the Color to Alpha filter, then Select Opaque on the filter layer. Then hide the filter layer and add a new layer to paint on.
The advantage of keeping a filter layer is that you can always adjust your color choice by opening its layer properties (in the layer stack right-click menu) and then use Select Opaque again to update your selection.

There's also a little button in the bottom left corner of the Krita window that switches between the marching ants and mask modes for displaying selections. The mask mode can visualize soft selections.