Krita

Krita 4.2.5 is a free painting software for professional artists to use to create visual effects (VFX), to design graphics for games or to simply create a picture according to wish. The program uses a state-of-the-art brush tool to make brush strokes easy and sophisticated.

The working interface of Krita free drawing software

An impressive feature of this program is the intuitive, friendly and easy to understand working interface, which helps users to have a comfortable and free working environment to develop their ideas.

In the Settings section of the Krita graphics software, you can choose the color theme theme, choose the toolbar and docker you want to use as well as customize the keyboard shortcuts for the most convenience. Besides, users can also save several dockers into a working interface and can move back and forth between these interfaces.

Some key features of the Krita graphics software

Support many tools:

Krita supports many different graphic tools with the ability to support both raster graphics and vector graphics. Among them, vector graphic tools include: path creation tool, object selection tool, adding text, adding art form text, adding calligraphy, gradient tool or gradient tool.

At the same time, Krita also offers graphic tools such as: freehand drawing tools, line drawing, adding rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars, creating motion animations force, crop, move, transform and create curves, color picker, add grid to paintings, select objects, enlarge paintings, enlarge / shrink paintings and many other support tools.

Painting frame:

The canvas in Krita can be rotated or symmetrically visually. In addition, the drawing frame in the program has the ability to support OpenGL, suitable for high-resolution screens. In addition, Krita also offers plenty of options to create a painting mode with a full frame drawing frame, helping users not be distracted when creating art.

Painting:

Krita uses many advanced brush tools. Also, you can save brush settings as a preset and share them with other users. The program supports many different types of brushes, including: pixel brush, smudge brush, filter brush, hairy brush (used to paint hair), hatching brush, chalk, color smudge, curve, deform, dyna, experiment, grid, particle, sketch and brush spray.

Artists can customize the drawing to draw a straight, near straight brush stroke or set certain parameters.

In addition, Krita also supports multiple combination modes. You can set various brush modes, manage and exchange brush presets with other artists. In addition, this software also allows using the right-click menu for users to add their favorite brush preset samples.

Support docker:

Dockers or palettes and basic blocks often appear in the user interface of a professional drawing tool. Krita supports dockers used for the following purposes: preset selector selection , layer management , channel management , color selector , tool setup ( tool option ), select shapes ( shape selector ), manage compositions , view history ( undo history ), choose patterns ( pattern selector ), set up tasks ( task set ), use scripts and Many other dockers to handle vector objects.

Record the operation:

Krita is capable of capturing the entire process of creating a picture in this program. At the same time, users can edit the recorded macros.

Layer support

Krita supports raster layer, vector (vector layer), filter (filter layer), programmatically generated layer, or group layer. The user can customize the settings of the layers such as transparency, filter selection and masking.

Not only that, you can also drag and drop layers in Krita 's working interface or move between works in Krita and other applications. In addition, in a vector layer capable of supporting text, vector shapes and the use of filters in vector shapes.

Support multiple filters:

Krita allows using filters directly on a layer as well as using filters as masks or layers. Users can preview the effect of a filter right on the image.

Krita supports the following filters: color correction, brightness / contrast adjustment, saturation adjustment, effect inverting, automatic contrast adjustment, HSV adjustment, pixelization, adding raindrops , oil painting, blurring, motion blur, lens blur, color shift, channel zoom, channel enlargement, angular detection, creating carvings, sharpening paintings, erasing blemishes, noise reduction / pictures and lots of other tools.

Support color management tools, color models and depth creation tools for channels:

Krita supports the following color models for creating and editing images: RGBA, Gray, CMYKA, Lab, YCbCr, XYZ form 8, 16, 32 bit.

Besides, this professional drawing software also supports quite a lot of color management programs.

Supports many file formats:

• Support importing file format : Photoshop PSD, PNG, BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG2000, EXR, PNM, EPS. PDF, OpenDocument ODG, OpenRaster, Camera RAW, TIFF, XCF.
• Export images as: Photoshop PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, JPEG2000, EXR, PNM, OpenDocument ODG, OpenRaster, Camera RAW, TIFF.

Update to the latest Krita painting software

Krita 4.2.5

• Fix protection errors in conversion tools when working on tablets and touch devices.
• Fix continuous transform errors in the Transform tool.
• Correction of updated errors in the Transform tool.
• Display publishing time in news markers on opening page in user-defined shortened format.
• Fixed an issue where using a linear brush & drawing normally when the canvas rotated or was duplicated.
• Once again, Krita can create new palettes and save them in the source directory instead of the current document.
• Adjust Krita size so it does not 'consume' memory resources when downloading JPG files with certain metadata.
• Binding the help editors on the viewing window so the user can always manipulate.
• Make sure the Krita store changes brush settings in the current session by default.
• Remove activation assert command when opening the first image in the session.
• Update the configuration version to the default input setting, so that the rotate / zoom task will be activated as soon as the user has the local kritadefault.profile file.
• Correct errors when using the Move tool when opening images.
• Make sure not to block painting tools anymore.
• Make sure the system handles shortcuts more flexibly when the shortcuts overlap.
• Fix crash bug in image converter.
• Design Transform and Move tools more flexibly.

Krita 4.2.4

• Add a Luminosity blending mode inspired by Painttool Sai
• Now the user can use the dot in the file name.
• Fixed softness regression error on the tip of using automatic brush with Default Circle.
• Delete excess points in the line tool every time you use them.
• Do not reset the opacity to 0 when moving more than 1 shape at a time.
• Do not skip rotation in the brush tool.
• Fix cursor drift when using pan / zoom / rotate.
• Correct errors when creating RGB images after using the nearest CMYK color sample.
• Use QImageIO image import / export filter for QP file.
• Fixed an issue with updating the brush size in the toolbar with keyboard shortcuts or dragging.
• Can translate the created gradient name.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when closing Krita when deleting a session.
• Correct a color picker that makes it possible to turn the color area in front of the image to transparent.
• Fix logic errors in Separte plugins.
• Updated notes for the LargeRGB color profile.
• Fix file name reference error for Rec.709 profile.
• Add a way to maintain KisShortcutsMatcher

Krita 4.2.3

• Now the user can rotate the canvas with two fingers.
• Add reload script button to the Python scripter plugin.
• Fixes:
  • Note the dialog box to select the Background Color.
  • Combobox select tag can choose the source containing the longer tag, fit snugly with combobox.
  • The Krita startup window is minimized before adding the news widget.
  • Copy / paste animated frames.
  • The polygonal picker and contour handle handle the editing tools more precisely.
  • Dock docker Overview when not opening the image.
  • Drag and drop fill layers between opened files.
  • Download the EXR file that has more than one layer of the same name.
  • Hiding view lines disappears before hiding the help tool.
  • Support KDE Plasma global menu.
  • Freeze when pressing delete when creating polygon selection.
  • Hang software when trying to draw while playing the effect of a blank image.
  • Other bug fixes.

Krita 4.1.5

• Combine Krita with .ico file.
• Automatically update device pixel ratio when changing screens.
• Turn off auto-scrolling for the Pan tool.
• Disable drag & drop in recent documents list.
• Turn off zooming in / out when editing text in rich-text mode.
• Do not add template files to the recent documents list.
• Masking on locked layers is not allowed.
• Do not close the dialog box settings when pressing enter while searching for keyboard shortcuts.
• Draw polylines into the shapes if several fill types are selected.
• Fixed Tangent Normal rendering option to work with 16 and 32 bit floating pixels.
• Correct mixing errors with the color picker at first use.
• Fix issue with name spacing when loading SVG.
• Fix confirmation error when right clicking on the animated timeline.
• Fix the error of automatically hiding the color picker window.
• Fix canvas rate error in HIDPI mode.
• Fix delete shortcut for configuring import canvas.
• Fix the error of loading multiple documents with additional markup.
• Fixed a bug loading special unicode space characters.
• Fix loading alpha channel from TIFF file of Photoshop.
• Fix missing shortcut in tooltip Fill Tool.
• Fix the error of updating the projection after undoing the layer creation.
• Fix save key layer, alpha lock and inherit alpha.
• Fixed a bug where saving the audio source file's location in .kra file.
• Fix the selection tool and transform tool overlay when activating Mirror Axis.
• Fix active session configuration errors after new creation.
• Fixed a bug where popup colors were displayed when the mouse was pointed.
• Fix keyboard shortcut close error: Ctrl-w on Windows.
• Fix overview docker bar.
• Fix the color selection shortcut key: Shift-I.
• Fixed a bug where failure to restore a session prevented Krita from closing.
• Import SVG files as vector layers instead of pixel layers.
• Improve the space between the settings of importing canvas.
• Accurately merge layers if the order of the layers selected is not from top to bottom.
• Delete SVG text tool in hidden group

Krita 3.1.4

• Perform operations from the context menu with the default tools: cut, copy, paste, arrange objects .
• Added option to allow using multiple templates in Krita.
• Add scaling around pivot points.
• Fix some minor bugs of the previous version.