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Hi Devs!

I've been using Krita and preaching the tool like crazy, looks and feels amazing but I see something you might be denying and could take advantage from: That is the eraser as an individual tool!.

I know that pressing F5 and setting the "Eraser Switch Size" and "Eraser Switch Opacity" makes the eraser easier for Photoshop users like me, but is annoying as hell when I want a hard tip for the eraser and the sketchy 'soft' look of the 2B pencil. even the "Pencil-1-hard" uses a circle with a Gaussian Mask that makes the eraser too soft when I make it big, without mentioning that doesn't erase the 100% at one stroke (even when the opacity is 100% because of the pencil settings)...

The Brush is B Key and the Eraser is a mode that can be Toggled with E key, That's it and I get it. but I would appreciate having the ability to have Different Tips and settings for the Eraser, not just a mode with the restriction of the settings that works fine for sketching but not for erasing.

SO! here's my suggestion. just like you have an Eraser Switch for Size and Opacity, Why not a "Eraser Switch Individual" that would render the Eraser independent from the Brush without creating a new tool, just make it independent settings from one to another as in Photoshop. That way those who comes from paper/Photoshop/any other programs can use the eraser in a more intuitive way.

______To Know your enemy, is to know yourself - Sun Tzu __________

In Photoshop, The Brush and The Eraser appears as individual Tools, however beside the fact that one adds/modifies color and the other deletes pixels, both behave the same way and both settings are similar for the brush and eraser.

Just like in Krita, you can even set the Brush as 'Clear' Blending Mode to turn it into an Eraser without changing the Brush tip/ settings, but is a feature that very few use since changing the tool its easier than its blending modes, unless you're use to Alt+Shift+Keys to switch between them, in witch case you need to memorize the keyboard shortcuts for the blend modes you need and you need both hands at a certain point...

Its more intuitive to Draw/paint with individual tools since pencil is a tool to draw/paint/add color and the eraser (usually softer) to remove/smooth/decrease the intensity of a color/pixels... You don't use the same pencil to erase, you use an eraser tool... even in the case of a soft eraser that you can shape, the idea of the eraser behaving with small lines like the pencil is uncomfortable.
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Being able to switch from Brush to Eraser and back to the Brush using the E key as a shortcut is smart and efficient! But not when erasing big areas with a big brush and then having to reset the pencil/brush settings to draw/sketch again with a small one. it turns in a waste of Time, inefficient and unreliable.

I don't ask for a new Tool, but a new ability from what I can observe the tool already has in the Eraser Switches mentioned before.

Let's talk about this idea!
- As a Krita user, Wouldn't it be cool to have this Switch Feature?
- As a Dev. Is it too much to ask for a feature like this? even when the Size and Opacity Switches works?
- What do you Guys think about Clip Studio?