Krita
Krita is a creative application for raster images. Whether you want to create from scratch or work with existing images, Krita is for you. You can work with photos, scanned images or start for a blank slate. Krita supports most graphics tablets out of the box.
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A natural-feeling tool for artists
Several brushes to choose from
Krita is different from other graphics design programs in that it has it has pluggable brush engines, some supporting brush resources like Gimp brush files, and other offering sophisticated simulation of real brushes, and others again offering deforming your image or mixing colors. Moreover, Krita has full support for graphics tablets, including features as pressure, tilt and rate, making it a great choice for artists. There are easy to use tools for drawing lines, ellipses and rectangles, and the freehand tool is supported by pluggable “drawing assistants” that help you draw shapes that still have a freehand feeling to them.
Various layer types for more flexibility
Group layers create a, "folder" of layers for organization
Krita was the first free software graphics application to offer layer groups and adjustment layers. In Krita 2.0, there are more layer types supported, allowing you to better organize your image and achieve non-destructive layer effects. Use group layers to organize your complex images, or create a clone of a layer to edit both layers at once. Shape layers even let you use vector elements, text or even sheet music: Krita offers you all the shapes you might already know from the other KOffice applications for real flexibility.
Advanced tools to aid artists
The perspective grid tool
Krita is as much a tool for creating art on your desktop or tablet PC as it is an application for manipulating existing images. Krita includes tools, such as the Perspective Grid tool, Snap to Grid, Rulers and freehand painting assistants to allow you to go from concept to image quickly and smoothly.
Support for your images – all of them
Krita is ready for your photos - whatever the format
Krita supports all the most popular image formats natively, so you don’t have to worry about converting your files to and fro. Any two images can be imported into a single image with no worries – feel free to edit, position, manipulate and save them back into whatever image format you choose. Besides, Krita supports a wide range of color formats and bit depths: rgb, Lab, cmyk, ycbcr, xyz in 8, 16 or 32 bits. And, uniquely, there are even several colorspaces that use advanced mathematics to support mixing colors like you learned at school.
Of course, Krita has a lot of filter plugins (with on-canvas preview) for manipulating existing images. And through the combination with
the new OpenGTL and Shiva, it’s easy to add new filters and generators.
Krita is yours, too!
Best of all, Krita is free software and is therefore under continuous development. We welcome contributions, whether that is code, documentation, tutorials, or ideas and expertise from artists and users. Join us on #krita at irc.freenode.net, or on our mailing list. Ideas are developed in our wiki. Krita can only grow through your contributions! And don’t forget to check out krita.org for weekly updates and news!
