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-deffered 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 3.2.1 is a bug fix release. The following issues were fixed:
- Crash on startup if only OpenGL 2.1 is found: if you had to disable opengl for 3.2.0, you can try to enable it again
- A crash when changing layer types in the gmic-qt plugin
- A bug where gmic-qt could crash on odd-sized images
- A regression where using the text tool would break the brush tool
- The option to use the native platform’s file dialogs was restored
- A bug where selecting the line tool would disable the flow slider
- Some issues with the LUT docker were fixed
Download: Krita 3.2.1 (32-bit) | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Krita 3.2.1 (64-bit) | Portable
Download: Krita Windows App Store (commercial software)
View: Krita Home Page
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