Today someone was asking for a functionnality here https://krita-artists.org/t/highlight/45439/3?u=mangatengu I assumed the person wanted some overlay blending mode (maybe I'm totally wrong but that's irrelevant) I wanted to link her to the documentation, which I did, but the sample images were not showing enough what overlay is: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/blending_modes/mix.html#bm-overlay I ended up linking a youtube video that explains this thing in a more striking way IMHO Maybe samples accross the documentation could be improved?
Well, that's something where you could contribute: if you have better example images of blending modes, submit them?
Sure! I'll try to come up with something that fits in correctly. Are gif or videos accepted btw?
If you want to improve images in that part of documentation, please contact Wolthera first. In any case, in my opinion, what should be done is this: - create a sample .kra file with two layers - preferably something that would include situations like shadow, highlight and some random shapes to be able to show all useful effects. - use this to generate images for all blending modes to be consistent (so users can compare effects of different blending modes). Videos or gifs can sometimes be a good idea but for blending modes, I think it would be better to just have images. Having different images just for few blending modes wouldn't look good, which is why I think a new .kra file should be created. (the old kra file got lost anyway, and we need a .kra file in case new blending modes are added).
IMHO doing a single image with all kinds of situations for consistency and playing all the effects on it is already what we have, and this is why I find it lacks efficiency. Generic images like in this case dots floating against the sky may also not strike people about how cool this or that effect can be. I'm literally playing "spot the difference (level hard)" every time I check that page https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/blending_modes/mix.html#bm-overlay What I would suggest (and it's certainly something I can't do alone as I'm not the blending mode expert) is not to try to make 1 single image to match every case, nor to make 1 unique image per blending mode but to make sure when an image is used to show case one blending mode, it's perfectly fitted for that. Then things could be presented this way: 1 base image alone (as in the actual manual) 2 the blending input alone (to know what it is we are adding in the first place) 3 both stacked normally (to see what it would look like without the blending) 4 both stacked with the right blending mode (as in the actual manual) Then linking the kra file for people to play around if they will... I guess IRC is the way to go to catch Wolthera ?