Krita 4.2.9

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 4.2.9 bug fixes:

Fix transparency checkers looked white on HDR display bug 406698
Several fixes to file dialogs for overwriting and jpg files bug 412651
Fix Grow Selection expanding in one direction bug 414647
Fix crash using onion skins on non-animated layers bug 414668
Increase the limit in Layer Offset to 100k bug 414625
Fix crash opening .kra with incorrect clone source (related to bug 414699
Prevent crash on addition of color to deleted palette with colorpicker bug 413548
Make Add subbrush off on changing multibrush tool’s type from Copy Translate bug 415651
Improve rendering of predefined default Rect dab
Set the default location for restored files to QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation bug 415810
Don’t crash if remoteArguments is called when there isn’t a mainwindow bug 415794
On Android, default to TouchGesture for Kinetic Scrolling
Delay initialization of brush paintop widget state bug 415033
Reenable breeze: with the latest release, the bug with comboboxes has been fixed
Show the hand cursor if there is no colorize mask yet bug 415935
Fix logic for enabling/disabling options in stroke selection dialog bug 415896
ORA export, write entire layers instead of cropping them
Fix endless recursion when assigning a profile bug 414818
Fix a crash when cancelling Transform Tool action bug 414672
Fix an obviously wrong assert in the gradients bug 414550
Fix 1px brush offset in line tool bug 407405
Fix Layer Filter Combobox with Breeze theme bug 406595
Fix comparison of double spin box
Fix PaletteDocker not showing palettes bug 414890
Fix undo of replacing vector selection bug 412808
Separate krita log dialog from system information
Resource bundle: turn assert into check bug 399008
Fix the python Canvas.setRotation method bug 416126
Store and restore the geometry of the svg editor window bug 416097
Fix number of asserts with continued transform bug 415625
Fix Touch Docker save button not working on new files bug 407905
Fix blur Filter inconsistencies bug 416241
Fix border artifacts in layer styles bug 414582
Use Qt::Popup for color selectors popup widgets bug 410959
Always show color popup below the cursor bug 394139
Remove the strength compatibility with older paintop presets bug 416335
Fixed unneeded error message in Render Animation. bug 412599
Fix canvas offset calculation bug 416352
Layers with alpha channel disabled correctly export as “svg:src-atop” for ORA
Add icon to Close button of “About Krita” dialog box
Fix memory leak in preset history docker
Warn that Krita needs to be restarted after enabling/disabling plugins bug 416575
Workaround Qt 5.14’s colormanagement preventing png files from being saved bug 416515
Fixes with last used filter command. bug 416706
Fix Increase/Decrease Brush Size and Switch To Previous Preset buttons
Fix Warp and Cage transform in master bug 416505
Fix crazy snapping when resizing shapes bug 414336
Fix hiccups when doing canvas actions bug 414576, 415773
Fix animation rendering problem on small images (
Fix display of vector shapes when transformed with transform tool bug 417016
Fix hangup when loading image with generator/file layers bug 415891
Fix slowdown associated with the quick hide function of Shift+click on layer visibility icons
Fix canvas border color issue
Fix issue when saving preferences
Hide SubWindow decoration on macOS
A number of fixes with L*A*B* and CMYK thanks to L.E Segovia’s Season of KDE work
Android: Make it possible to select opengles
Set setRedirectPolicy as per discussion on KDE mailing lists
Fix crash when loading asl with tdta OSType
Make “Save Incremental Version” update recently used files
Correct logic for determining whether there are multiple backups requested bug 417914
Fix incorrect common curve in very old presets bug 417748
Fix layout issue in the history docker
Fix strobbing of the brush outline because of subpixel precision bug 374551
Make local selection outline visible on layer converted to selection mask
Fix freeze on vector layers bug 412746
Fix artifacts on filter masks applied to adjustment layers bug 417673
Fix ratio option on lower precision brushes
Fix opening Appimages bug 418230
Set image as modified after a legacy action (fix Channels docker not updating in some cases) bug 417992

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