Krita Dodge/Burn: How??

[Dik Takken]

Hi,

When I checked out the new Krita a few months ago, I was completely 
astonished by its feature set. I am currently considering a switch from 
CinePaint to Krita for preparing slide scans for printing. Krita is much 
more stable and has more features than CinePaint does.

Unfortunately, I fail to find out how to use the dodge or burn tools, two 
of the most important tools for working on slide scans. In CinePaint or 
GIMP, you can simply select the burn/dodge tool from the tool palette, 
choose which you want to use (burn or dodge) and what you want to 
burn/dodge (highlights/midtones/shadows). Then, just use the mouse and it 
does what you expect.

In Krita, there is no burn/dodge tool. There is only a 'Paint with 
Filters' tool, which seems to be a complex unification of multiple 
tools. In order to get what you need, you need to choose a mode, a 
filter, a color, opacity and you need to configure something that 
looks like an 'Adjust Curves' kind of thing.

The dodge and burn tools seem to be implemented as a 'Mode'. I select 
the 'Burn' mode and leave everything else at their default values, 
because I don't know their function. When painting on the canvas, the 
effect looks like color inversion. When I change to the 'Dodge' mode, it 
seems to do what I expect. Except for the fact that you can't continue 
dodging until the image is completely white. The dodge tool seems to be 
limited somehow. Also, it seems to dodge midtones/highlights only.

I tried looking in the Krita manual, but I can't find any information 
about how the whole 'Paint with Filters' system works. Can anyone explain 
please?

Thanks a lot!

Dik