Created attachment 137953 [details] Illustration of the problem It is a regression in master, "RGBA_01_Thick-Dry" brush preset started to paint darker color. The same preset in 4.4 branch paints correctly. See attached screenshot. Git-sha1: e0c6c0c223bdf0c03c538790c6938a72ed435d6e
I think you'll have to take this bug yourself...
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/828
Git commit f2b5a0aef84b13db86a03e59801441905b34a7f7 by Dmitry Kazakov. Committed on 11/05/2021 at 11:52. Pushed by dkazakov into branch 'master'. Fix RGBA brushes created in Krita 4.4 becoming darker in Krita 5.0 In Krita 4.x releases there was a bug that caused lightness adjustments to be applied to the brush **twice**. It happened due to the fact that copy-ctor called brushTipImage() virtual method instead of just copying the image itself. In Krita 5 we should open these brushes in somehwat the same way. The problem is that we cannot convert the numbers precisely, because after applying a piecewice-linear function twice we get a quadratic function. So we fall-back to a blunt parameters scaling, which gives result that is just "good enough". M +1 -0 libs/brush/KisColorfulBrush.cpp M +26 -4 libs/brush/kis_predefined_brush_factory.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/commit/f2b5a0aef84b13db86a03e59801441905b34a7f7