
To add a blending mode to a layer, you need to have at least two layers that contain content in the Layers docker. Here is how to use both methods, followed by an explanation of a few common blending modes. In this case, the top brush stroke will blend into the bottom one based on the blending mode you choose.

The other way to use blending modes is to blend two brush strokes, even when they are both on the same layer. This is useful when creating effects on images or blending a brush stroke over your painting. This will then use specific parameters to blend the top layer into the bottom layer based on your selected blending mode. First, you can blend two layers by adding a blend mode to the top layer.


“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”).
