Krita 5.0.6

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-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 5.0.5 changelog:

Fix artefacts when using the color smudge brush on CMYK images. BUG:447211
Fix blurry results in 4-point perspective transform. BUG:447255
Fix undo of liquify transform properties. BUG:447314
Fix the size of the About Krita dialog.
Fix a crash when changing the Instant Preview settings of a brush preset.
Fix use of layer names when using the G’Mic plugin. BUG:447293, BUG:429851
Add missing blending modes for G’Mic filters. BUG:447293
Fix issues with resource libraries with upper-case filename extensions. BUG:447454
Enable the OS file dialog on macOS by default.
Fix broken macOS Arm64 canvas rendering for 16 bit/integer images.
Fix crashes when undoing multiple layer operations too quickly. BUG:447462
Work around a crash in the transform mask applied to a passthrough group. BUG:447506
Fix the photoshop compatible shortcuts. BUG:447771
Fix AppimageUpdate. BUG:446757
Show the correct number of layers in the Image Properties dialog. Patch by Dan McCarthy, thanks!
Fix the layout of the docker titlebars.
Disable automatically assigning accelerator keys for selecting dockers.
Fix a memory leak in the color history display.
Fix a race condiction in the metadata system initialization.
Fix animation playback when having multiple views on an animation. BUG:450425
Fix dataloss when scaling an image with animated transform masks. BUG:450781
Fix incorrect basename for an animation when filepath or filename changes. BUG:451654
Fix restoring the default values for canvas input settings. BUG:396064
Update gradient colors correctly in layer styles. BUG:452066
Fix a crash when handling touch events.
Fix a large number of defects found by Coverity.
Fix the hitboxes in the curve widget being too small on HiDPI screens. BUG:446755
Fix saving over deactivated resources.
Fix the Advanced Color Selector’s hsySH square element. BUG:452422
Fix issues with cursors being too small on HiDPI screens. BUG:448107, BUG:447314
Fix problems with animating transparency and filter masks. BUG:452170
Opacity now loads correctly for animated vector layers. BUG:452144
Stop the storyboard docker creating frames on locked layers. BUG:447396
Storyboards: add the ability to duplicate existing scenes.
Improve the interaction with ffmpeg when rendering animations or recordings.
Improve detection of broken video sequences on import as animation.
Work around a problem where not all pixels got copied when copying a mask. BUG:453164
Make it possible to save and load gradients on non-UTF8 locales. BUG:447730
Fix issue with masks and layers being broken after changing the colorspace.
Update to LittleCMS 2.13.1 to fix a bug in the grayscale colorspace and fix conversion between 8 bits and 16 bits grayscale images. BUG:447484
Fix a delay on autobrush strokes with randomness: BUG:446663
Improve performance when moving a layer in a layer group. BUG:450957
Fix brush outline precision for pixel-art brushes. BUG:447466
Improve the brush outline for low-density brushes. BUG:447045
Set .apng as the default file extension for APNG files instead of PNG. BUG:451473
Fix crash when using the smart patch tool on HDR images. BUG:451912
Make it possible to set Weighted Distance to values larger than 100. BUG:451874
Fix the the fuzziness setting for the contiguous selection tool. BUG:447524
Fix the default eraser preset. BUG:447650
Add missing shortcuts for the following filters: slope/offset/power, cross-channel adjustment curves, halftone, gaussian high pass, height to normal map, gradient map, normalize and palettize. BUG:451337
Fix saving new workspaces. BUG:446985
Correctly handle the ICC profile blacklist.
Fix the “Photoshop signature verification failed!” warning if there are zero sized blocks in the PSD file. BUG:450983
Make starting Krita more robust if the configuration file is corrupted. BUG:449983
Add pressure and rotation to touch support.
Fix translation issues on Android. BUG:448343
Fix autosaving on Android.
Handle flags in SVG paths in vector layers correctly: BUG:447417
Fix crash when the selected gradient isn’t shown in the gradient selector in the Layer Style dialog. Similar for patterns. BUG:448296, BUG:445922
Fix an issue in the brush preset selector if no brush preset has been selected. BUG:449226, BUG:450121
Fix a bug in Qt’s accessibility handling. BUG:449122
Fix the menubar height in MDI mode with maximized subwindow on HiDPI screens. BUG:449118
Fix the speed sensor in the line tool. BUG:434488
Fix a crash in the raindrops filter when applied to an empty layer. BUG:449408
Fix a race condition in Select All. BUG:449122
Improve thread handling when painting, improving performance and energy efficiency. BUG:367901, BUG:360677
Improve the performance of the resource selectors if there are many resource libraries installed.
Fix issues with saving tags when updating the database schema.
Make it possible to tag and untag multiple resources at once.
Reset the painting assistant after each stroke. BUG:448187
Fix issues witht he color smudge radius range. BUG:441682
Remove broken resource files after importing them fails. BUG:446279
Fix reference image update on resizing in HiDPI. BUG:430988
Fix issue with MyPaint presets when Slow Tracking interacts with the Stabilizer. BUG:447562
Fix banding when rendering in HDR mode. BUG:445672
Fix rendering SVG file layers. BUG:448256
Fix the small color selector on OpenGL 2.1. BUG:447868
Fix using the default theme if there is no theme configured. BUG:448483
Fix sizing of preview images in the non-native file dialog. BUG:447805
Improve handling of the CTRL modifier key. BUG:438784
Fix update of brush outline when switching brush preset or tool. BUG:428988, BUG:442343
Improve handling the thumbnails for the recent files list.
Fix setting the configuration of a fill layer from the scripting API. BUG:447807

Krita 5.0.6 fixes:

A crash when working with vector layers or vector selections and using undo a lot: BUG:447985
A crash deleting a vector layer with an animated transparency mask: BUG:452396

Download: Krita 5.0.6 (64-bit) | Portable | ~170.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Krita Windows App Store (commercial software)
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