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Apply a canvas texture to a digital painting with Krita

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I wanted to make a digital painting appear to have a canvas texture, to make it look like any traditional paintings. In Krita , it is easy to apply a canvas texture over the digital paint layers.  In a nutshell, you just need to create an overlay paint layer with a tiled canvas texture image applied with some transparency applied. Or in more details, do the following: Create a canvas texture paint layer In Krita , open up a digital painting file that you want to create a canvas texture for. In the Layers docker pane, click the + icon, as shown in the screenshot above. A new paint layer Paint Layer x is created . Where x is a running number . Move the newly created paint layer above all the painted layers either dragging it above or you can use the arrow up/down icons. Name the layer as Canvas texture . Select a canvas texture file Click the Fill patterns icon in the tool bar. A drop down showing a grid of patterns appear . Click on a pattern to use, e.g. 02_rough-canvas.png . Ap...