Krita 4.0.1

Krita

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 4.0.1 changelog:

Windows

Patch QSaveFile so working on images stored in synchronized folders (dropbox, google drive) is safe

Shortcuts

Fix duplicate shortcut on Photoshop scheme
Alphabetize shortcut to make the diffs easier to read when doing changes

Make the triangles larger on the categorized list view so they are more visible
Disable the macro recorder and playback plugin
Remove the docker titlebar lock and collapse buttons. BUG:385238 BUG:392235
Set the pixel grid to show up at 2400% zoom by default. BUG:392161
Improve the layout of the palette docker
Disable drag and drop in the palette view: moving swatches around did not actually change the palette. BUG:392349
Fix selecting the last used template in the new document dialog when using appimages. BUG:391973
Fix canvas lockup when using Guides at the top of the image. BUG:391098
Do not reset redo history when changing layer’s visibility. BUG:390581
Fix shifting the pan position after using the popup widget rotation circle. BUG:391921
Fix height map to normal map in wraparound mode. [full release notes]