Krita/Dynamic PaintOp
The Dynamic PaintOp is a painting operation that give the user to control on how the various parameters are affected depending on the user input.
Notions
In this section I will explain a few notions related to the dynamic paintop.
Shapes
It defines what is paint on the device. For instance a potatoe stamp or a more sophisticated bristle shape.
Coloring
It defines the color which are paint on the device:
- plain color
- gradients
- patterns
- cloning
- random
- ...
Filters
It affects the parameters of either the shape or the coloring.
Common filters
- rotation
- resizing
Coloring filters
- darkening
- filters
Shape filters
- scattering (control by spreading and count)
Sensors
A sensor is an user input, it's a value that is used to affect the parameters of filters.
The list of availale sensors with mouse and tablet is the following:
- orientation
- speed
- time
The list of available sensors with the tablet (not all of them are accessible with different model) is:
- pressure
- X-Tilt
- Y-Tilt
Program
It's usually a list of filters.
Brush
Brush contains a shape, a coloring, and two program (one for the shape and one for the coloring).