Krita free image editor used to be a part of the office suite of applications, but now it is a powerful and constantly developing product in its own right, which can give a head start to any famous graphic program. The target audience of the application is artists and photographers. Krita is open source, which means that many useful add-ons are freely available.
Functionality of Krita
The program allows to develop bitmap images from the scratch, but at the same time it is equipped with powerful tools for advanced users who want to process scans of their paintings or copies of photos.
Krita allows you to apply popular filters, masks and adjustment layers, supports dynamic filters and offers a wide range of built-in tools for retouching.
Utility for artists
The application has a variety of specific features specifically for artists:
- Functionality for working with frame-by-frame animation, ffmpeg export;
- There are different modes of blending;
- Many options for brushes with different effects;
- Graphic tablet with the control of the dynamics of brushes;
- Ability to choose a set of hotkeys, typical of other editors, such as Photoshop or SAI;
- Work with the canvas: endless canvas, mirroring, rotating, paper and pastel imitation.
Benefits of
The functionality of the application is constantly supplemented, existing operations are optimized. The developers inform the fans of the program from the pages of the official website Krita. The next stage of development of the editor assumes its deeper integration into the work of professional artists.
What's new in the latest version 5.2.9
Updated
- Fixed errors related to clone layers.
- Improved transparency handling, especially for EXR formats.
- Fixed a number of causes of program crash.
- Added new keyboard shortcuts for Bezier Curves and Freehand Drawing tools.
- Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.
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