https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457530
Bug ID: 457530
Summary: Invert how color interacts with masks/special layers
Product: krita
Version: 5.1.0-beta2
Platform: Appimage
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Filter Layers
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
The current behavior of how masks are affected by color isn't intuitive to
artists at all.
At the most basic level: why does painting white on a mask *add* more of the
visual effect, despite erasing doing the opposite by removing the visual
effect? Some examples:
* I have finished inking something and I want to add screentone. I lasso select
a piece of the artwork and create the screentone fill layer. However, it turns
out my selection wasn't perfect, so I use my eraser to remove bits I don't
want. Going by intuition, it would follow that going back to a black opaque
color would add bits that I do want. However, this turns out to not be the
case: painting in black on the mask will instead remove more the halftone. I
must switch to white if I want to add additional halftone.
* There are bits of my artwork that I want to hide in a transparency mask. I
select the bits I want to hide, invert, then apply a transparency mask. Like
before, it seems like my selection was not perfect, so to resolve this matter,
I use my eraser to hide parts that I don't want to seen, and *attempt* to use
my black brush to show what I do want to be seen. As shown in the previous
example, this is apparently foolish. (I also find it unintuitive that applying
transparency masks applies the transparency to everything outside of the
selection, but that's a bit of a separate matter.)
I get caught up in this a lot, so it would be really nice if this made more
sense. Erasers and white color should both have the same removal-like effect on
a mask while black should have an additive effect.
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