.. meta:: :description lang=en: A tutorial about painting outline while you draw with brush. .. metadata-placeholder :authors: - Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier :license: GNU free documentation license 1.3 or later. .. _outline: ================== Brush-tips:Outline ================== Question -------- How to make an outline for a single brush stroke using Krita? Not really a brush, but what you can do is add a layer style to a layer, by |mouseright| a layer and selecting layer style. Then input the following settings: .. image:: /images/brush-tips/Krita-layerstyle_hack.png :alt: Image demonstrating the layer style hack for this effect. Then, set the main layer to multiply (or add a :ref:`filter_color_to_alpha` filter mask), and paint with white: .. image:: /images/brush-tips/Krita-layerstyle_hack2.png :alt: Image demonstrating the layer style hack for this effect. (The white thing is the pop-up that you see as you hover over the layer.) Merge into a empty clear layer after ward to fix all the effects.