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 5.1.5 fixes:
- Fix issue with banding when using the gradient map filter as a filter layer. BUG:463585
- Only center paste into active layer if contents are outside image bounds. BUG:461894
- EXR: Fix opening EXR files that have only a luma channel. BUG:461975
- Fix an issue building with XSIMD 10.0 and up. BUG:463219
- Properly use the resolution of a .KRA file when that file is used as a file layer. BUG:442127
- Fix a regression in loading PSD files. BUG:462417
- Android: Fix loading and creating images on Android and ChromeOS. BUG:463318
- Android: Fix an issue with loading translations. BUG:462943
Download: Krita 5.1.5 (64-bit) | Portable | ~170.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Krita Windows App Store (commercial software)
View: Krita Home Page | Krita Screenshot | Release Notes
