It was originally positioned as a general-purpose image processing software like Photoshop or GIMP. Later, it adjusted its development direction and aimed to become a digital painting software similar to Corel Painter or Paint Tool SAI. Krita provides highly customizable brush system and complete layer functionality, and allows for non-destructive editing through transparency and deformation masks. It can draw bitmap images, vector graphics, and make animations. It has full color management capabilities, can edit and debug HDR images, and is able to dock with Blender. It has intuitive operations, less interface interference elements, supports multithreading, and can utilize OpenGL to speed up the canvas display. Overall, Krita is well established as a professional digital drawing software. It has not become the universally accepted “best” one, but to say it’s “already pretty good” is not outrageous at all. Because its function has been not inferior to the vast majority of industry standard commercial software, and more and more professionals began to use it to create digital artworks. BTW, besides Krita, there are several other excellent open-source painting tools to choose from: GIMP, MyPaint, Inkscape, etc. Key Features // Clean and Flexible InterfaceĪn intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow.

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