Black being transparent and white being opaque. To do this I select the new mask layer and draw a gradient with the gradient tool. This will ease in the effect over the sky so it doesn’t look too harsh. What I am going to do is create a gradient over the sky of the photo. This mask will determine the coverage of the levels adjustment. With my levels filter applied I next create a new Transparency Mask. I ignore the ground because I know I will mask it out. So I add a filter layer with a levels adjustment and tweak the settings until I like the way the sky looks. In this photo, the sky is too bright ( to be honest the whole photo is a bit too bright). The transparency mask allows you to select which area of the image is affected and by how much.
This is where you introduce a transparency mask to the filter layer. So in order to fix this issue, you would want to darken the sky but leave the land unaffected because the land is already correctly exposed. For example, it’s incredibly common for the sky to be overexposed in a photograph. Let’s say you only want to adjust one area of the photo. You can re-order the layers too, this will also affect the end result. You can also adjust the opacity of the Filter layer which gives you the option of easing in the effect. This brings up the Filter options, I can now change the original settings I selected when I created the Filter Layer. I can even change the settings of the filters by right-clicking on the filter layer and then selecting properties. The reason this is the best way to work is because every filter can be removed or toggled on and off.
I select Auto Levels.Īpplying the same steps I used on the two previous filters, I finally add a sharpen filter to finish the image off. Once again a new filter layer has been created leaving the original intact. So next I am going to tweak the levels a bit so once again I create a new filter layer and select the levels adjustment filter. Although the end result is a desaturated image the original image is unaffected and I can toggle the effect on/off. This has created a new layer which sits above the original image. So first I am going to add a desaturate filter. Now rather than select the filters from the top menu, I am going to create a new filter layer. So allow me to demonstrate a non-destructive way of editing a photograph in Krita. If you are already familiar with Photoshop this is the same thing as Adjustment Layers. Rather than edit the original image this approach stacks the alterations on top of the image but leaves the original image unchanged. If you work professionally this is the only way to organise your work. With this method, every single change can be toggled, changed or removed at any time. Non Destructive Editing is the opposite of this approach. Each change you make alters the original file and can only be undone by pressing Undo (if you haven’t saved over it). This is what is known as destructive editing. If you saved over the original then I’m afraid there is no going back. Then you think actually maybe I overdid the contrast and actually I liked the colour version.
You turn the photo black and white, fix the contrast and you are happy with it so you save it. Let’s say you want to turn a photograph black and white and apply some tone adjustments. Some parts of this were revised from the Krita/Manual/Tools/Fill webpage from KDE UserBase Wiki.What are Filter Layers and why should I use them? ⠀⠀⠀ Ticking this will result in the active pattern being used. ⠀⠀⠀ Activating this will prevent the fill tool from taking other layers into account.
⠀⠀⠀ Use this option to fill the entire selection with the foreground color. ⠀⠀⠀ Activating this will result in the shape filling the whole of the active selection, regardless of threshold. ⠀⠀⠀ This value will add a soft border to the filled shape. ⠀⠀⠀ This value grows/shrinks the shape beyond its initial size. ⠀⠀⠀ Determines when the fill tool sees another color as a border. Fill Tool OptionsĬlick the paint bucket fill tool icon in the Krita toolbox to show the Fill Tool Options pane in the upper right corner of the Krita window. You can select the foreground color from the Advanced Color Selector pane. Clicking anywhere on the screen with the fill tool will allow that area to be filled with the foreground color. Fill a contiguous area of color with a color or fill a selection.