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Krita, the KDE digital painting and drawing application

Designed for digital painting, concept art, comics and texture creation, modeled on existing real painting tools. Feature rich, with an ergonomic and flexible user interface.

Visit Krita's official website for development updates:Krita.org

Introduction

Krita is an free and cross-platform creativity application for digital painting, image manipulation, concept art, comics and texture creation. It is modeled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, but also packs with functions like layers, filters, vector path drawing, typography, and built-in color management support. Krita is a KDE application based on Calligra platform.

Features

Drawing and painting oriented design

Szybki dostęp do koła kolorów, historii kolorów oraz ulubionych pędzli poprzez naciśnięcie prawego przycisku myszy.

Wysoce konfigurowalny system pędzli.

Layers with various mixing options, including multiply, overlay and opacity control

Can create vector layers with complex objects and editable texts

Supports autosave

Customizable toolbar, shortcuts and drag-and-drop panels

Wide range document formats support, including GIMP and Adobe Photoshop

Built-in color management system, supports color space conversion, RGB, CMYK and L*a*b, etc.

Extensible through OpenShiva, Python or Ruby scripts

Cross-platform, supports various GNU/Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX

Interface

Krita has a highly flexible and user-friendly interface. It grants users the liberty to customize its toolbar, shortcuts and specific tool options via drag-and-drop dockable tabbed-panels. A nice right-click splash ring enables quick access to color selector, color history and favorite brush sets, providing a convenient and immersive user experience. Customized workspace can be saved and loaded according to different tasks.

Toolbars

Krita allows users to easily right-click and customize its toolbars. There are two toolbars in Krita: "Files" toolbar and "Brushes and Stuff" toolbar. You may add or remove whatever functions of the toolbars, change text position, icon size and ordering. Texts on the button can be changed or even overlapped by assigning any desirable icons to them (with KDE plasma workspace installed). While customizing toolbars, the function list is searchable.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts can be easily modified in Krita. You may assign a main shortcut and also an alternative shortcut to a single command. While customizing shortcuts, the command list is searchable. User will be notified for conflicting commands.

Dockers

Dockers are tool option panels which can be drag-and-dropped in Krita. You may put them wherever you want and resize them horizontally and vertically. Multiple dockers can be grouped in a shared space and switch between them by tabs. By right-clicking on the title area of any panels you can easily add or remove panels from a complete list. A docker can also be collapsed to save space while not used.

Palette

There are two kinds of palettes in Krita: the ordinary palette for color presents which is a docker, and the not-so-ordinary palette for quick access to color selector, color history and favorite brushes. This quick access palette can be called up by right-clicking anywhere on the canvas, which liberate the artist from interruption in switching among colors and tools, thus provides an immersive user experience. Favorite brushes can be added to the palette by clicking on the toolbar button Save to Palette.

Brush System

Krita has a powerful and highly adjustable brush system modeled on various existing real-world drawing tools. In brush settings different genre of tools are grouped separately, each of them has tens of specified options which allow artists to adjust them throughly. On the right-side area of the brush setting window is a sketchpad to test the current brush settings, you may assign any background color and gradient to the sketchpad by clicking the icons below it.

While using the brush tool ("Paint with brushes" in toolbox), you may change brush size by holding Shift and drag brush-tip horizontally on the canvas. By holding Ctrl you temporarily switch to color-picker. By holding middle-mouse button you can move canvas. Right-click for quick palette. Quick sliders of Opacity, Flow and Size can be found on Krita's brush toolbar, while only two can be shown at the same time, you may click the plus button on the right to switch between different sliders.

Stable Brushes

Pixel (Normal) brushes
Smudge brushes
Duplicate brushes
Filter brushes
Hairy brushes
Hatching brushes

Experimental Brushes

Chalk brushes
Color Smudge brushes
Curve brushes
Deform brushes
Dyna (Dynamic) brushes
Experiment brushes
Grid brushes
Particle brushes
Sketch brushes
Spray brushes

Supported File Formats

The following file formats can be opened directly by Krita. However, you can only save directly to native supported formats. Use export to save files in formats which are not natively supported. Depending on your operating system and building environment, some file formats may not be supported.

Native Load and Save

Krita document (.kra)
OpenRaster Archiving image (.ora)
PPM image
PGM image
PBM image
PNG image
JPEG image
Windows BMP image
XPM image
XBM image
TIFF image
EXR image

Import and Export

Open Document Drawing
Photoshop image (.psd)
GIMP image (.xcr)
PDF document
GIF image
Nikon NEF raw image
Canon CR2 raw image
Sony SR2 raw image
Canon CRW raw image
Pentax PEF raw image
Sigma X3F raw image
Kodak KDC raw image
Minolta MRW raw image
Sony ARW raw image
Kodak K25 raw image
Kodak DCR raw image
Olympus ORF raw image
Panasonic raw image
Panasonic raw2 image
Fuji RAF raw image
Sony SRF raw image
Adobe DNG negative
SVG image
compressed SVG image
WMF image
Wordperfect / Drawperfect image
Karbon14 drawing
EPS
PS document

Draft Krita 2 Handbook

Krita needs a new handbook: the 1.6 handbook is completely obsolete. Please find the ongoing draft effort at Krita 2 Manual and help out with new content.