Krita 5.1.3

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 5.1.3 fixes:

For our builds: updated to the latest LittleCMS release candidate for increased performance and correctness. A lot of other dependencies were updated as well.
Fix using the Global Menu in the Plasma desktop when using distribution packages. BUG:408015
JPEG-XL, HEIF: Fix import/export of HDR Alpha Channels. BUG:460380
JPEG-XL, HEIF: Fix clamping of normalized HDR values
JPEG XL, HEIF: Fix saving OOTF removal if it’s enabled
JPEG XL: Fix enabling HLG correction options
JPEG-XL: Work around linear profiles having an undefined transfer function
JPEG-XL: Optimize HDR export
JPEG-XL: Improve compatibility with the currently experimental JPEG-XL support in Chrome
Fix handling creating an image from clipboard when the clipboard is empty. BUG:459800
Fix loading CSV animation files
Fix paste outside of image boundaries. BUG:459111
Fix aliasing of brush tips at small brush sizes.
Fix issues with the Line tool. BUG:460461
Fix a crash on selecting and cutting/copying in a new document. BUG:457475, BUG:460954
Android: fix long-press producing a right-click event
Android: handle touch events for Mirror decorations
Fix a crash in the pattern fill layer. BUG:459906
Fix foreground to background color switching of vector objects. BUG:458913
Fix several issues in TIFF file export. BUG:459840
Fix issues when changing color theme
Fix saving files with extreme aspect ratios. BUG:460624
Fix issues in the path selection tool
Implement right-click to undo adding a point for the polyline tool
Fix copy/paste with animated layers. BUG:457319, BUG:459763
Make it possible to import more than one bundle at a time
Make it possible to run Krita on Linux when SELinux is enabled. BUG:459490
Fix a crash on startup when there is a PSD file with layer styles in the recent files list. BUG:459512
Make it possible to run Python scripts if there is no paintable layer. BUG:459495
Fix the Ten Scripts plugin to actually remember the selected scripts. BUG:421231
Add an option to PNG export to convert to 8 bit on saving. BUG:459415
Fix artifacts when hovering over reference images in HiDPI mode. BUG:441216
Fix thumbnails for pass-through layers being created (they shouldn’t…) BUG:440960
Make the OpenGL workaround available for all platforms. BUG:401940
PSD: fix reading of layer blending ranges. BUG:459307
Fix a lot of small memory leaks
Fix copy-paste operation not working after using the move tool. BUG:458764
Show all loaded python plugins in the Help->System Info dialog
Show a busy cursor when saving a reference image set. BUG:427546
Add Document::setModified to the scripting API. BUG:425066
Fix a crash when trying to save an image with a fill layer. BUG:459252
Fix a crash when copy/paste a shape or fill layer or a selection mask. BUG:458115
Fix layer thumbnails when loading a 512×512 PSD file. BUG:458887
Fix a crash when trying to copy-paste the background layer. BUG:458890,458857,458248,458941
Don’t highlight a layer with a color label on mouse-over. BUG:459153
Fix creating numbered backups for files with names that contain [ and ]. BUG:445500
Add middle handles to perspective transform (patch by Carsten Hartenfels, thanks!)
Fix dab inaccuracy of Sharpness brushes when outline preview snapping is disabled. BUG:458361
Fix touchpad gestures on MacOS. BUG:456446