I have no control over the vibrance of the highlight or the contrast. It allows me to paint with any colour but they seem to be very dark.

I was able to blend them in, but I am having troubles adding the highlights from the city onto the edges of the mech and trees. In the example below, I have a Mech in a forest with the city in the back.

My issues come when I am trying to add artificial light or highlights using the brush tool. I am familiar with the brush tool and the basics such as keeping the colours black and white when you are blending to remove or add. There are a couple of road bumps that I cant seem to find the answer too. And interesting one is Deform, it’s like a super fast but blurry Liquify (actual Liquify is one of the modes in Transform Tool (ctrl+T) and is much more precise, but slower)).After 3 years I finally decided to open up Affinity Photo and start to practice (I mainly use Designer and Publisher). There is Pixel Engine, which is the most common, Color Smudge, which is for brushes that do any blending, either with color (“wet brushes”) or without (“blending brushes”), Quick Brush which has only a few options but it’s super fast so good for applying color to huge areas, there is a Clone Engine that I talked about already, there is MyPaint which uses brushes from MyPaint, it’s a bit peculiar engine but there are some MyPaint brushes in Krita now, and then there are many other special brush engines. (You can see that different brush engines have different options in the Brush Editor. “Painting Mode” is pretty important because it determines how it picks the area etc.

You can open Brush Editor (F5) and there are more settings for it. It uses a special so called brush engine in Krita, called of course Clone Engine.

It’s called “Clone Tool” (so you can search for it using a search term “clone”).

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