Krita 5.2.9
Krita Desktop is a free an open source painting application. Krita is the full-featured free digital painting studio for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike.
Krita has a user-friendly interface. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.
In addition to painting, Krita comes with vector, filter, group, and file layers. Combine, order, and flatten layers to help your artwork stay organized. There are also three different views on how to see the layers.
Krita supports full color management through LCMS for ICC and OpenColor IO for EXR, allowing you to incorporate Krita into your existing color management pipeline.
Open PSD files that even Photoshop cannot open. Load and save to PSD when you need to take your artwork across different programs.
Krita is the only dedicated painting application that lets you open, save, edit and author HDR and scene-referred images. Furthermore, with OCIO and OpenEXR support, you can manipulate the view to examine HDR images, and use it in the most cutting edge workflows from the film and visual effects industries.
Krita 5.2.9 changelog:
- Add shortcuts to bezier curve and freehand path
- Fix original offsets not being accounted for when copying from another document (Bug 490998)
- Fix updates when copy-pasting multiple nodes into a new document
- Fix infinite loop when trying to update pass-through nodes (Bug 493774, Bug 493830, Bug 493837)
- Fix Photobash Crash
- Bug fix: Added A1 and A2 sizes when creating a document
- Fix a crash when trying to merge down a layer created after a reference image addition
- Possibly fix saving EXR files with extremely low alpha values
- Fix infinite loop when a clone layer is connected to a group with clones
- Dynamic brush tool shouldn't load the saved smoothing configuration (Bug 493249)
- Fix bogus offset when saving EXR with moved layers
- Try to keep color space profile when saving EXR of incompatible type
- Fix crash when re-importing the same resource, but changed (Bug 484796)
- Fix range of Saturation and Value brush options (Bug 487469)
- Check pointer before dereferencing. (Bug 479405)
- Fix loading .kpp files with embedded top-level resources (Bug 487866, Bug 456586, Bug 456197)
- Fix a crash when trying to clear scratchpad while it is busy (Bug 488800)
- Fix the current preset thumbnail to be present in the preset save dialog (Bug 488673, Bug 446792)
- JPEG XL: Fix potential lockup when loading multipage images [full release notes]