How to Use Clipping Masks in Krita

Krita: Green to Red to Alpha, Clipping Mask Example (2025)

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A picture of the mona lisa with a repeating diamond pattern applied to dark areas of the painting. On its left the layer structure used to recreate this effect, that includes cloning the Mona Lisa (gasp!), turning green into red, then turning red into alpha, then using the alpha to mask the Mona Lisa in order to reveal the pattern under it.

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An example of how to use hue shifting and the cross-channel adjustment filter to turn an arbitrary color into a clipping mask in Krita. In this case, we have turned green into red, then made red the alpha value, which means that areas that are green in the image are opaque, and areas that are less green are transparent. By doing this to a clone of the image, then using the result as a mask of the image itself, we can reveal the pattern underneath on areas of the image that aren't green enough, meaning that areas that were either red or blue in the original image are replaced by the pattern.

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