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 5.1.4 fixes:
- Vector shapes not swapping the current fg/bg color (BUG:461692)
- Fix a crash when using “Paste into Active Layer” (BUG:462223)
- Layer Styles: label the Outer Glow page as Outer, not Inner Glow. (BUG:462091)
- Parse transfer characteristics from ICC profiles. Patch by Rasyuqa, thanks! (BUG:45911)
- Fix handling ICC color primaries and white point detections. Patch by Rasyuqa, thanks!
- Remove two obsolete actions from the action list in settings->configure Krita->shortcuts
- Fix some display artifacts when using fractional display scaling. (BUG:441216, 460577, 461912)
- Fix wraparound mode for non-pixel brush engines (BUG:460299)
- Fix visibility of the measure and gradient tools on a dark background
- Fix data loss when a transform tool is applied too quickly. (BUG:460557, 461109)
- Android: Disable changing the resource location
- Android: Disable the touch docker (some buttons are completely broken, and we’re rewriting Krita’s touch functionality). BUG:461634
- Android: disable New Window (Android does not do windows).
- Android: disable workspaces that create multiple windows (Android does not do windows).
- Android: make TIFF import and export work
- Android: remove the detach canvas action (Android does not do windows).
- TIFF: Fix inconsistent alpha and Photoshop-style layered tiff export checkboxes (BUG:462925)
- TIFF: Fix handling multipage files (BUG:461975)
- TIFF: Implement detection of the resolution’s unit. (BUG:420932)
- EXR: Implement consistent GRAY and XYZ exporting (BUG:462799)
- AVIF: add the image/avif mimetype to the desktop file so external applications can know Krita can open these files. (BUG:462224)
- PSD: allow zero-sized resource blocks (BUG:461493, 450983)
- Python: fix creating a new image from Python. (BUG:462665)
- Python: fix updating the filename when using Document::saveAs. (BUG:462667)
- Python: make it possible to use Python 3.11 (BUG:461598)
- Animation: Improve the autokey functionality. (BUG:459723)
Download: Krita 5.1.4 (64-bit) | Portable | ~170.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Krita Windows App Store (commercial software)
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