This is just one of the many digital image manipulation tricks that Krita has up its sleeve! Krita takes all these layers in its layer stack, including the special effects and combines or composites together a final image. You can edit individual layers, you can even add special effects to them, like Layer styles, blending modes, transparency, filters and transforms. Layers can give better control over your artwork for example you can re-color an entire artwork just by working on the separate color layer and thereby not destroying the line art which will reside above this color layer. Layers are part of the document which may or may not be transparent, they may be smaller or bigger than the document itself, they can arrange one above other, named and grouped. In Krita instead of papers we use Layers. If you want to replace an element in the artwork, you replace that piece of paper instead of drawing the entire thing. Think of an artwork or collage made with various stacks of papers with some papers cut such that they show the paper beneath them while some hide what’s beneath them. Krita supports layers which help to better control parts and elements of your painting.

Drawing on krita