Krita

Developer(s)| Krita Foundation, KDE
Initial release| 21 June 2005; 20 years ago (2005-06-21)
Written in| C++, Qt
Operating system| Linux, macOS, Windows,[1] Android, ChromeOS,[2][3] Haiku
Platform| IA-32 and x64
Size| 111–201 MiB (varies by operating system)
Type| Raster graphics editor
Licence| GPL-3.0-only[4]
Website| krita.org

Krita (/ˈkriːtə/ KREE-tə)[5] is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation. Originally created for Linux, the software also runs on Windows, macOS, Haiku, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management, vector artwork support, and switchable customisation profiles.

The software is also available as paid software, distributed on Microsoft Store, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Mac App Store. Payments support the development of the software. The paid version has automatic updates.

## Contents

* 1 Name
* 2 History
* 3 Design and features
* 3.1 User experience design
* 3.2 Painting tools
* 3.3 Animation tools
* 3.4 Vector tools
* 3.5 Layers and masks
* 3.6 Customisation
* 3.7 Display
* 3.8 Filters
* 3.9 File formats supported
* 4 Sprint events
* 5 Variations
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## Name

The project's name "Krita" is primarily inspired by the Swedish words krita, meaning "crayon" (or chalk), and rita which means "to draw" as well as Sanskrit कृत (kṛta) which means "made"/"done".

## History

The Krita team in 2014

Free web comic Pepper&Carrot artwork by David Revoy (left) is drawn in Krita. In 2022, Revoy made an interpretation of Krita's mascot, Kiki (right).

Early development of the project can be tracked back to 1998 when Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE, showcased a Qt GUI hack for GIMP at Linux Kongress. The idea of building a Qt-based image editor was later passed to KImage, maintained by Michael Koch, as a part of KOffice suite. In 1999, Matthias Elter proposed the idea of building the software using CORBA around ImageMagick. To avoid existing trademarks on the market, the project underwent numerous name changes: KImageShop, Krayon, until it was finally settled with "Krita" in 2002. The first public version of Krita was released with KOffice 1.4 in 2004.[6][7][8] In years between 2004 and 2009, Krita was developed as a generic image manipulation software like Photoshop and GIMP.[9]

A change of direction happened to the project in 2009, with a new goal of becoming digital painting software like Corel Painter and SAI. Also from that point, the project began to experiment with various ways of funding its development, including Google Summer of Code and funded jobs for students. As a result, the development gained speed and resulted in better performance and stability.[10]

Time  | Version  | Raised  | Kickstarter campaign  | Stable release

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July 2014  | 2.9.x  | €19,955  | Faster development, better PSD support, layers, masks, brush, resource manager, display, etc.  | February 2015
May 2015  | 3.0.x  | €30,520  | Better performance, animation support, layer, workflow, transform, filter, brush, etc.  | May 2016
May 2016  | 4.0.x  | €38,579  | Better text tools and vector art capability, python scripting support, etc.  | March 2018[11]
| 5.0.X  |  | Brushes, Gradients and Pallets get revamped, animation system improvements, screen recorder.[12] | December 2021

On May 23, 2020, the beta version of Krita was released for Android and ChromeOS.[13][14][15]

## Design and features

The current version of Krita is developed with Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5. It is designed primarily for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. It has the following key features:[16]

### User experience design

XP-PEN Deco 01V3 with Krita Krita's right-click HUD, the Popup-palette

Krita's UX was designed with graphics tablet users in mind. It uses a combination of pen buttons, keyboard modifiers and an icon-based HUD to ensure frequently-used functions can be accessed by fewer clicks, without the need to search through text-based menus.

Most-used drawing commands can be accessed via touch by combining keyboard modifiers with pen/mouse buttons and gestures:

Command | Input

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Brush size ± | Shift + Pen drag
Pick colour | Ctrl + Pen tap
Pan | Pen button + Pen move
Zoom | Ctrl + Pen button + Pen move
Rotate | Shift + Pen button + Pen move

Pop-up Palette is Krita's right click HUD. It enables instant access to the following functions:

Brush  | Colour  | View

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10 loaded brush presets  | Colour ring selector  | Zoom
Load other preset groups  | FG/BG colour display  | Rotate
Brush size, opacity, flow, spacing, angle  | Recent colour  | Mirror
Controls of one of Krita's many brush engines Krita's stock brushes

### Painting tools

Krita's core digital painting tools include:

Brushes  | Drawing assistants  | Selection tools  | Transformation tools

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Graphics tablet support  | Adjustable interference intensity  | Rectangle  | Free position
9 different brush engines  | Infinite and parallel straight rulers  | Ellipse  | Rotate
Modelled after real tools  | Splines (curves)  | Freehand (lasso)  | Scale
Highly adjustable  | Ellipses  | Polygon  | Shear
Remembers settings for each physical pen  | Perspective  | Outline  | Perspective
Pen stabilizer  | Vanishing point  | Fill  | Warp
Multibrush painting support  | Fish-eye point  | Color  | Cage
Krita's animation workspace (4.0 version)

### Animation tools

Krita's animation tools are designed for frame-by-frame raster animation. They have the following features:

Interface  | Import  | Export

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Similar interface to Adobe Animate | Batch import of frames  | Render with FFmpeg
Timeline controls  |  | Output to individual frames
Real-time animation playback controls  |  | Output to GIF, AVI, MP4, etc.
Onion-skin display  |  |
Krita's vector tools

### Vector tools

Krita uses vector tools for non-destructive editing of the following objects:

* Path
* Selection
* Text (artistic, multiline, calligraphy)
* Vector art
* Fill and gradient

Krita's layer and mask controls

### Layers and masks

Krita's layer and mask features include:

Layer management  | Mask applies to  | Non-destructive layers  | Non-destructive masks

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Multiple-level layer groups  | Raster layers  | Clone layers  | Transparency masks
Select multiple layers  | Vector layers  | Filter layers  | Filter masks
Drag-and-drop layers  | Layer groups  | Fill layers  | Colourise masks
Layer highlighting  | Non-destructive layers  | File layers  | Transform masks

### Customisation

Krita's resource manager

Krita's resource manager allows each brush or texture preset to be tagged by a user and quickly searched, filtered and loaded as a group. A collection of user-made presets can be packaged as "bundles" and loaded as a whole. Krita provides many such brush set and texture bundles on its official website.

Customisable tool panels are known as Dockers in Krita. Actions include:

* 2 customisable toolbars
* Toggle display of each docker
* Attach any docker to any sides of main window, or detach to float free
* Buttons to collapse/expand each docker panel
* Group dockers by tabs

Customisable Brushes and Brush Engine[17] allows advanced users to create custom scripts on brush behavior, patternlike textures, geometrically shaped brushes and simulated blending through programming, most notably via Python[18] plugin support however, other programming languages are also supported like Lua.

Workspaces allow UI customizations for different workflows to be saved and loaded on demand.

Text quality on Krita's OpenGL canvas with non-integer zooming, rotation and mirror

### Display

OpenGL accelerated canvas is used to speed up Krita's performance. It provides the following benefits:

* Better framerate and response time: pen actions can be reflected without delay
* Better-quality, fast and continuous zooming, panning, rotation, wrap-around and mirroring
* Requires a GPU with OpenGL 3.0 support for optimal experience. In the case of Intel HD Graphics, that means Ivy Bridge and above.

Krita's colour space loader

Full colour management is supported in Krita with the following capabilities:

* Assign and convert between colour spaces
* Realtime colour proofing, including colour-blind mode
* Colour model supported: RGBA, Grey Scale, CMYKA, Law, YCbCr, XYZ
* Colour depth supported: 8-bit integer, 16-bit integer, 16-bit floating point, 32-bit floating point

### Filters

Krita's G'MIC filter controls

Krita has a collection of built-in filters and supports G'MIC filters. It has real-time filter preview support.

Filters included in a default installation: levels, colour adjustment curves, brightness/contrast curve, desaturate, invert, auto contrast, HSV adjustment, pixelise, raindrops, oil paint, gaussian blur, motion blur, blur, lens blur, colour to alpha, colour transfer, minimise channel, maximise channel, top/left/bottom/right edge detection, sobel, sharpen, mean removal, unsharp mask, gaussian noise removal, wavelet noise reducer, emboss horizontal only/in all directions/(laplacian)/vertical only/with variable depth/horizontal and vertical, small tiles, round corners, phong bumpmap.

### File formats supported

Krita's native document format is Krita Document (.kra). It can also save to many other file formats including PSD.

| File formats

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Save to  | Krita Document, OpenRaster document, PSD image, PPM, PGM, PBM, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPEG XL, Windows BMP, XBM, XPM, TIFF, EXR, Gimp image, WebP, SCML, ICO, TGA, CSV, QML
Import only  | ODG draw, Krita Flipbook, Adobe DNG, Camera RAW, JPEG 2000, PDF, SVG, XML, XCF

## Sprint events

Krita sprints are events during which Krita developers and artists get together for a few days, exchange ideas and do programming face-to-face, in order to speedup development and improve relationships between members.

Year  | Date  | Place

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2005[19] | N/A  | Deventer, Netherlands
2010[20] | 26 February to 7 March  | Deventer, Netherlands
2011[21] | 20 to 22 May  | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014[22] | 16 to 18 May  | Deventer, Netherlands
2016[23] | 23 to 24 January  | Deventer, Netherlands
2016[24] | 26 to 28 August  | Deventer, Netherlands
2018[25] | 17 to 21 May  | Deventer, Netherlands
2019[26] | 5 to 9 August  | Deventer, Netherlands

## Variations

* Krita Gemini: optimised for tablets and touch interaction.[27]
* Krita Studio: commercially supported version for movie and VFX studios.[28]

## See also

* Comparison of raster graphics editors
* List of 2D animation software
* List of 2D graphics software
* List of digital art software
* List of free and open-source software image editors
* List of computing mascots

Similar programs

* GIMP
* Pixia
* MyPaint
* Clip Studio Paint
* Photoshop
* Paint Tool SAI

## References

1. ↑ "Krita Desktop". Krita Foundation. https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/.
2. ↑ "First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store" (in en-US). 2020-05-23. https://krita.org/en/item/first-krita-beta-for-android-and-chromeos-in-play-store/.
3. ↑ "Krita - Apps on Google Play" (in en). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.krita&hl=en_US.
4. ↑ "Update the licensing info: Krita is effectively GPLv3-only" (in en). https://github.com/KDE/krita/commit/9d80ab01c19d52c260cb37422db15b23584ff623.
5. ↑ "r/krita - How do you pronounce "Krita"?" (in en-US). 8 December 2018. https://www.reddit.com/r/krita/comments/a4cu6x/how_do_you_pronounce_krita/.
6. ↑ "History | Krita" (in en-US). Krita. https://krita.org/en/about/history/.
7. ↑ Brempt (2004-09-27). "First Krita Preview Release" (in en). https://dot.kde.org/2004/09/27/first-krita-preview-release/.
8. ↑ HILZINGER, MARCEL. "OFFICE HELP » Linux Magazine" (in en-US). http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2005/60/KOffice-1.4.
9. ↑ Foundation, Krita (16 July 2014). "History | Krita" (in en-US). https://krita.org/en/about/history/.
10. ↑ "History | Krita" (in en-US). Krita. https://krita.org/en/about/history/.
11. ↑ "Krita 4.0 Now Available for Open-Source Digital Painting - Phoronix". https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Krita-4.0-Released.
12. ↑ Foundation, Krita (2021-12-23). "Krita 5.0 released!" (in en-US). https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/.
13. ↑ "Krita, a FOSS digital drawing app, is now available for Android tablets and Chromebooks" (in en-US). 2020-05-25. https://www.xda-developers.com/krita-foss-digital-drawing-app-available-android-tablets-chromebooks/.
14. ↑ "First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store" (in en-US). 2020-05-23. https://krita.org/en/item/first-krita-beta-for-android-and-chromeos-in-play-store/.
15. ↑ "Krita - Apps on Google Play" (in en). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.krita&hl=en_US.
16. ↑ "Highlights | Krita" (in en-US). https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/.
17. ↑ Wang, Lu (2 August 2022). "[proof-of-concept Scriptable Brush"]. https://krita-artists.org/t/proof-of-concept-scriptable-brush/46634.
18. ↑ "How to make a Krita Python plugin — Krita Manual 5.2.0 documentation" (in en). https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/python_scripting/krita_python_plugin_howto.html.
19. ↑ Boudewijn Rempt (2005-07-30). "And on the fifth day...". valdyas.org. valdyas. http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/hacking/krita/done.html.
20. ↑ Boudewijn Rempt (2010-03-15). "Second Krita Sprint Ends With Tea". KDE. https://dot.kde.org/2010/03/15/second-krita-sprint-ends-tea.
21. ↑ Boudewijn Rempt (2011-06-02). "What happens When Artists and Developers Come Together: The 2011 Krita Sprint". KDE. http://dot.kde.org/2011/06/02/what-happens-when-artists-and-developers-come-together-2011-krita-sprint.
22. ↑ "2014 Krita Sprint in Deventer, Netherlands". 2014-06-04. https://dot.kde.org/2014/06/04/2014-krita-sprint-deventer-netherlands.
23. ↑ "Kicking off 2016 — the first Krita Sprint" (in en-US). 25 January 2016. https://krita.org/en/item/kicking-off-2016-the-first-krita-sprint/.
24. ↑ "2016 Krita Sprint: Day 1" (in en-US). 26 August 2016. https://krita.org/en/item/2016-krita-sprint-day-1/.
25. ↑ "2018 Krita 2018 Sprint Report" (in en-US). https://krita.org/en/item/krita-2018-sprint-report/.
26. ↑ "2019 Krita 2019 Sprint" (in en-US). 12 August 2019. https://krita.org/en/item/krita-2019-sprint/.
27. ↑ "Krita Gemini" (in en-US). https://krita.org/en/download/krita-gemini/.
28. ↑ "Krita Studio" (in fr-FR). https://krita.org/fr/telechargement/krita-studio/.

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