Krita is the free and open source digital painting program used by artists all over the world. Help make Krita even faster and better!
Krita is a FREE award-winning open source digital painting application. Dedicated to creating comics, illustrations, concept art, matte paintings: all kinds of 2D image creation!
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Try Krita now and see how good it already is!
Linux builds are provided by your distribution and may lag behind a version or two. For Ubuntu, you can use krita-testing from the Lime repository:
OpenSUSE users can the KDE:Extra repo:
Last year, you supported us to create a dozen great new features for Krita – and we delivered! We just released Krita 2.9, the latest, greatest version of Krita with hundreds of improvements. That wouldn’t have been possible without your support, as well as the many volunteers that donated their time and energy! Krita is a community project through and through! And now it’s the time to take the next step…
We’re making Krita to make it possible for artists all over the world to create great art, to be as productive as possible. There’s one big step we can take to achieve that goal:
Achieve awesome performance, beating Photoshop at its own game. Thanks to research by Dmitry, we’ve figured it out and we know how to do it, but it’s a BIG job! Several months of dedicated coding, right inside Krita’s core.
And that’s where you come in – help us make this possible, let’s push Krita to yet another height. Huge posters, big illustrations, high-def film matte paintings. Big brushes with a diameter over 3000 pixels will be possible!
Here’s the prototype:
Over the past two years, we’ve been putting down the foundation for adding great animation capabilities to Krita. With the performance improvements in place, we will build a professional animation tool into Krita. Whether you’re Warner Bros reviving Looney Tunes or making game sprites (or just having fun with gifs), you were stuck with vector tools if you wanted to use open source software.
People keep telling us how much they love Krita’s brushes, and rightly so! Think of being able to use those brushes to create the hand-drawn 2d animations of your dreams. It’s a big project! But it’s going to be fun. We just need to write the code!
You’ll be able to not just animate your drawings from frame to frame, but set every layer or mask property on a timeline! Filter layers, transformation masks, fill layers, clones and transparency masks… Just imagine the possibilities!
This will also hit Krita’s core data structures, but we’re also going to have create a great timeline feature, onion skinning and more!
As usual, we’ll be inviting all of you to test as we code! Every week, we’ll make builds for Linux, Windows (and OSX, too, for a double dose of experimental).
We need to do the big stuff! But there are a lot of great ideas floating around and we want to give you the opportunity to make Krita better, better and better. Here are our stretch goals! There are 24 of them, neatly grouped. Every 1500 euros over the target will add a stretch goal… And at the end of the kickstarter, everyone who has supported us from the 15 euro reward can vote for their favourite stretch goals from the list!
(And, of course, choosing a 1500 euro reward lets you automatically add a stretch goal!)
Last year, we kicked ass with the transform tool changes. Time to make the Move tool awesome!
Thank you for supporting Krita! The biggest reward is of course that you’ll get a much improved Krita that you can work with forever, that will never be closed up, that will never stop working because a cloud server breaks – a digital painting application that you build on!
For extra fun, we’ve added some cool things that, hopefully will make supporting Krita even more attractive. Already from fifteen euros, you will get your name in the aboutbox. We’ll make the about box a lot more attractive too! Postcards with Krita art from your favourite developers. Stickers to adorn your laptop and tablets. Roomy usb-sticks with Krita and the first two training DVD’s pre-loaded. Downloads of the brand new DVD Timothee Giet is working on. We’ve also designed mugs, tote-bags, t-shirts, pencil cases, a fancy sketch book and a tablet holder as thank-you rewards.
But in the end, it comes down to this:
Join us and let’s make a free digital painting application that is yours, just as much it is ours.
Get the latest version of Krita and give it a spin!
https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/
It’s free, and available for Windows and Linux — and we’re working to make the OSX version stable, too.
Krita is made for painters! Watch David Revoy create a full scale illustration using Krita:
Then, Krita is immensely powerful. You can paint in full HDR mode. Baking your painting to a particular exposure is one of the stretch goals.
If full HDR is too much color, try simulating indexed colors:
Our transform tools are even more awesome than before:
And wrap-around mode for texture painting is incredibly productive, and fun!
Krita let’s you work your way — here’s William Thorup showing how he painted the Time Keeper illustration:
Artwork
Take a look at the wonderful artwork Krita users have been making!
We have been working on Krita for ten years now, and have been bringing the application up to a high level of usefulness.
The Krita Foundation has succesfully stewarded five sponsored projects already: Lukáš Tvrdý’s work on the 2.4 release (“Make Krita Ready for David Revoy”), Timothee Giet’s “Comics with Krita” training DVD, Ramon Miranda’s “Muses” training DVD and Dmitry Kazakov’s sponsored work on Krita 2.8 and Krita 2.9.
The 2014 Kickstarter was a success as well. We delivered all but one features in 2.9.0. The Photoshop Layer Style feature will be delivered this week.
Krita is released more or less every six months, and every release has a host of new features, improvements, bug fixes and speed-ups.
Release dates are approximate. If some features don’t make it to the next release because they take more time to develop than we currently expect, we promise to keep working on them for the next release!
If you have questions about this project, please mail foundation@krita.org.
NOTE: “Faster than Photoshop” specifically is about painting performance on big canvases, not about each and every individual feature.