Free, open-source digital painting app — 100+ brushes, animation tools, and full PSD support.
Krita is a free, open-source digital painting application made by artists, for artists. It includes over 100 professionally crafted brushes, a brush stabilizer, pop-up palette, layer management, PSD import/export, HDR painting, and a frame-by-frame animation timeline. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Used by concept artists, illustrators, comic creators, and texture painters as a free alternative to Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint.
Pricing model: Free
Common questions about Krita
Krita 5.3.4.1 fixes display profile assignment, a color-management regression. That's the hotfix's only change.
The monthly report also covers work in the development builds. Krita Plus adds trackpad gestures for Krita 6 on Wayland, while Krita Next gets temporary rulers that snap brushstrokes to a straight line. V+Left Click activates the Normal ruler, replacing the default Activate Line Tool shortcut. Shift+V+Left Click uses angles snapped to 15-degree increments.…
Krita 5.3.4/6.0.4 includes a Recorder fix that should stop frame writing from interrupting drawing tools. Exporting a timelapse with missing frames now renames the frame files to remove gaps.
The September development report also covers work outside the stable release. Krita Next can save HDR color metadata in PNG files, and rewritten touchscreen and trackpad gestures are ready for testing, including trackpad gestures in Krita 6 on Wayland.…
Krita 5.3.4 and 6.0.4 bring video export to Android, so you can render animations and export timelapses from the recorder.
The releases also remove the GIMP XCF import plugin because its third-party library was no longer maintained and had security issues.
Krita's team considers 5.3.4 suitable for production work; 6.0.4 remains more experimental during the move from Qt5 to Qt6. For 5.3.4, the minimum macOS version rises from Mojave (10.14) to Catalina (10.15).…
Krita's monthly report highlights animation rendering on Android in Krita Plus, using MediaEncoder and LibAV. Separately, Krita 5.3.3 has been released with fixes and revamped Android supporter donations.
Krita Plus also removes support for GIMP's XCF format because the xcftools library is outdated and unmaintained. For exchanging files, the recommendation is to open XCF files in GIMP and use OpenRaster (.ora) between programs.
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