Overview
What is Krita?
Krita is a professional FREE and open-source painting program designed for artists seeking affordable art tools. According to the Krita Foundation, it caters to artists of all sizes, from individual freelancers to large art studios. Krita is widely embraced by concept artists, texture and matte painters,...
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Product Demos
Krita GSOC 2015: Tangent Normal Brush Engine demo
Inking Demo 2: Krita 2.9 smoothing improvements.
Digital Art for Complete Beginners (Krita 101 for Digital Illustration)
Drawing a church in Perspective - A Krita Assistants demo.
Krita Cage Tool Demo
Crayons for Krita 2021. Not only brushes
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What is Krita?
Krita is a professional FREE and open-source painting program designed for artists seeking affordable art tools. According to the Krita Foundation, it caters to artists of all sizes, from individual freelancers to large art studios. Krita is widely embraced by concept artists, texture and matte painters, illustrators, comics artists, and animation studios.
Key Features
Clean and Flexible Interface: Krita offers an intuitive and customizable user interface, allowing artists to tailor it to their specific workflows. Users have the flexibility to create personalized shortcuts for frequently used tools.
Beautiful Brushes: Krita provides a diverse collection of over 100 professionally crafted brushes, encompassing a wide range of effects. These brushes offer artists ample options to elevate their artwork.
Brush Stabilizers: Krita includes three different methods to smooth and stabilize brush strokes, making it particularly beneficial for artists with unsteady hands. These stabilizers contribute to creating smoother lines and enhancing overall brush control.
Vector & Text: Krita incorporates built-in vector tools that facilitate the creation of comic panels. Artists can choose from a variety of word bubble templates available in the vector library and customize them to suit their desired shapes. The text tool enables the addition of text to artwork, utilizing the SVG format for vector management.
Brush Engines: Krita boasts more than 9 unique brush engines, empowering users to customize their brushes according to their specific requirements. Each brush engine offers a wide array of settings, allowing artists to tailor their brushes to their liking. Krita's tagging system enables the organization and easy access of custom brushes.
Wrap-around mode: Krita's wrap-around mode simplifies the creation of seamless textures and patterns. By referencing the image along the x and y axes, artists can seamlessly continue their painting without the need for manual offsetting to observe how the image repeats.
Resource Manager: Krita's resource manager enables users to import brush and texture packs from other artists, expanding their creative toolkit. Additionally, artists can create their own brush bundles and share them with the Krita community. The resource area provides access to a wide variety of brush packs.
Simple and Powerful 2D Animation: Krita's animation workspace transforms the software into a robust animation studio. Artists can layer their animations, customize onion skinning, and export the final results as videos. The software also supports audio import, making it suitable for creating animated content.
Drawing Assistants: Krita offers a range of drawing aids to assist artists with vanishing points and straight lines. The Assistant Tool provides 9 unique assistants to help artists achieve precise shapes. Multiple assistants can be utilized simultaneously during the drawing process.
Layer Management: In addition to its painting capabilities, Krita supports various layer types, including vector, filter, group, and file layers. Artists can easily combine, order, and flatten layers to maintain an organized workflow.
Krita Video
Krita Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, SteamOS |
Mobile Application | No |