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).