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How to Add a Multiple Stroke Effect in Krita

Krita: Multiple Stroke Text Effect, Layered Strokes Method, Layers Docker (2025)

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A screenshot of Krita showing the layers docker next to the text "Multiple Stroke" featuring a multiple strokes effect. The layers docker displays the layer structure of the project. At the bottom, a grey background layer. Then a layer group called "Effect Source" with a "Text" layer inside. Then a "Clone of Effect Source" a layer group called "Orange Stroke (5px) with a layer style applied. This group is inside another group, which is inside another, and another. The topmost group called "Stacked Method." Above this, a layer group called "Layered Method" containing the exact same effect in a different structure. Its bottom layer is also a "Clone of Effect Source." Then, from bottom to top: 2nd White Stroke (48px), 3rd Purple Stroke (43px), 2nd Purple Stroke (35px), 1st Purple Stroke (15px), 1st White Stroke (10px), and Orange Stroke (5px).

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A multiple stroke text effect created in Krita using multiple clone layers with decreasing stroke widths one above the other (layered method), and the same effect created using a "stacked method" instead.

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