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Krita: Open Source Professional Software for Digital Painting
Krita is a creative sketching and painting application
based on Calligra technology. Whether you want to create art paintings,
cartoons, concept art or textures, Krita supports most graphics tablets out of
the box.
Main Features:
* Interface and
Workspace
Krita has a user-friendly interface. In the settings
menu, you can choose the color theme, which toolbars and dockers you want to
use, and edit keyboard shortcuts. Save a given set of dockers as a workspace
and switch between them. The canvas can be easily rotated and mirrored. The OpenGL
canvas supports high-bit depth monitors. There is a large set of options
available to create a no-distractions canvas-only painting mode.
* Wrap-Around Mode
It is easy to create seamless textures and patterns now.
Press the ‘W’ key while painting to toggle wrap-around mode. The image will
make references of itself along the x and y axis. Continue painting and watch
all of the references update instantly. No more useless clunky offsetting to
see how your image repeats itself. You can even paint off the edge and it will
automatically start painting on the top.
* Multiple Brush
Engines and Blending Modes
A brush engine is more than just a typical brush pattern
with settings changed. Each brush engine has its own logic and behavior. The
included engines are pixel, smudge, duplicate, filter, hairy, hatching,
texture, chalk, color smudge, curve, deform, dyna, experiment (Alchemy), grid,
particle, sketch, and spray brushes. Brush settings can be saved as presets and
shared. There are a staggering amount of blending modes available. The blending
modes are arranged by category and have your favorites stored at the top of the
list.
* Advanced
Selection and Masking Tools
Krita comes with many methods of selecting parts of your
canvas in order to edit them. You can select with shapes such as rectangles and
circle, paint your selection, polygon selection, select by color, select by
Bezier. You can add, remove, or intersect to your selection. You can also make
selection by layer contents by context clicking the layer and clicking “select
opaque”. You can create a transparency layer by itself, or add one to an
existing layer. This is great tool for non-destructive changes.
* Symmetry Tools
and Drawing Aids
Symmetry tools that go much further than basic mirroring.
Take full control by being able to determine how many axis you need. Modify the
origin center, angle, and smoothing parameters. Easy to toggle x and y mirror
buttons in the top toolbar. Drawing aids such as perspective grids and shapes
that have magnetic settings.
* Filters and
Effects
Filters can be used directly on a layer, or as filter
masks or layers. The effect of a filter is previewed on the image itself. There
are special effects like wave, oil paint, and emboss. Adjustments such as
levels, brightness/contrast, and HSV are also included. Additional tools that
can be useful for making selections like color to alpha and color transfer.
* Layer and Color
Management
Krita has raster, vector, filter, programmatic, group,
and file-backed layers. Each layer has settings for visibility, edit lock,
transparency lock, and alpha locking. Layers can be dragged and dropped to and
from other applications. Vector layers support text, vector shapes and filters
on vector shapes. Krita supports the following color models for creating and editing
images: RGBA, Gray, CMYKA, Law, YCbCr, XYZ in 8 bits integer, 16 bits integer,
16 bits floating point, 32 bits floating point. Krita always uses color
management.
Website: https://krita.org/
