Krita 4.2.8

Krita Desktop is a free an open source painting application. Krita is the full-featured free digital painting studio for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike.

Krita has a user-friendly interface. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.

In addition to painting, Krita comes with vector, filter, group, and file layers. Combine, order, and flatten layers to help your artwork stay organized. There are also three different views on how to see the layers.

Krita supports full color management through LCMS for ICC and OpenColor IO for EXR, allowing you to incorporate Krita into your existing color management pipeline.

Open PSD files that even Photoshop cannot open. Load and save to PSD when you need to take your artwork across different programs.

Krita is the only dedicated painting application that lets you open, save, edit and author HDR and scene-referred images. Furthermore, with OCIO and OpenEXR support, you can manipulate the view to examine HDR images, and use it in the most cutting edge workflows from the film and visual effects industries.

Krita 4.2.8 changelog:

Fix the sliders in the performance settings page. BUG:414092
Fix the color space of the onion skin cache. BUG:407251
Fix transforming layers that have onion skins enabled. BUG:408152
Also save the preferences when closing the preferences dialog with the titlebar close button
Fix a bug in the polygon tool that adds an extra point. BUG:411059
Save the last used export settings. BUG:409044
Prevent a crash on macOS when closing a dialog that opened the system color dialog. BUG:413922
Fix an issue on macOS where the native file dialogs would not return a filename. BUG:413241
Make it possible to save the “All” tag as the current tag. BUG:409748
Show the correct blending mode in the brush preset editor. BUG:410136
Fix saving color profiles that are not sRGB to PNG files
Make the transform tool work correctly with the selection mask’s overlay
Fix a crash when editing the global selection mask. BUG:412747
Remove the “Show Decorations” option from the transform tool. BUG:413573
Remove the CSV export filter (it hasn’t worked for ages)
Fix slowdown in the Warp transform tool. BUG:413157
Fix possible data loss when pressing the escape key multiple times. BUG:412561
Fix a crash when opening an image with a clone layer when instant preview is active. BUG:412278
Fix a crash when editing vector shapes. BUG:413932
Fix visibility of Reference Layer and Global Selection Mask in Timeline. BUG:412905
Fix random crashes when converting image color space. BUG:410776
Rewrite the “auto precision” option in the brush preset editor. BUG:413085
Fix legacy convolution filters on images with non-transparent background. BUG:411159
Fix an assert when force-autosaving the image right during the stroke. BUG:412835
Fix crash when using Contionous Selection tool with Feather option. BUG:412622
Fix an issue where temporary files were created in the folder above the current folder.
Improve the rendering of the transform tool handles while actually making a transformation
Use the actual mimetype instead of the extension to identify files when creating thumbnails for the recent files display
Improve the logging to detect whether Krita has closed improperly
Fix exporting compositions from the compositions docker. BUG:412953, BUG:412470
Fix Color Adjustment Curves not processing. BUG:412491
Fix artifacts on layers with colorize mask *and* disabled layer styles
Make Separate Channels work. BUG:336694, BUG:412624
Make it possible to create vector shapes on images that are bigger than QImage’s limits. BUG:408936
Disable adjustmentlayer support on the raindrop filter. BUG:412522
Make it possible to use .kra files as file layers. BUG:412549
Fix Crop tool loosing aspect ratio on move. BUG:343586
Fix Rec2020 display format. BUG:410918
Improve error messages when loading and saving fails.
Fix jumping of vector shapes when resizing them
Add hi-res input events for pan, zoom and rotate. BUG:409460
Fix crash when using Pencil Tool with a tablet. BUG:412530
Always ask Windows to synchronize the file systems after saving a file from Krita.
Fix wrong aspect ratio on loading SVG files. BUG:407425

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