Krita

Krita is a professional digital painting program that serves as a comprehensive tool for artists working on illustrations, comics, animations, concept art, and storyboards. Designed to enhance your creative process, Krita provides a wide array of features that make painting both enjoyable and efficient.

Among its many features, Krita offers advanced brush engines perfect for sketching and painting, along with stabilizers for smooth freehand inking. The program includes assistants to help you construct intricate scenes, a distraction-free canvas-only mode for focused painting, and features like clone layers, layer styles, and filter and transform masks for non-destructive editing. Krita is compatible with all major file formats, including PSD, ensuring seamless integration with other tools.

For those interested in animation, Krita supports onion skinning and storyboarding, while also offering robust comic book project management. Additional features include scripting in Python, an extensive set of powerful filters, selection tools, colorizing tools, and color-managed workflows. Krita's flexible workspaces cater to various needs, allowing you to customize your environment for maximum productivity. Explore the complete range of features at krita.org!

Please note that this is a beta release of Krita, which is not yet ready for professional work. The current interface is optimized for larger screen devices such as tablets and Chromebooks, and it is not available for phones at this time.

Krita is developed by the Krita Foundation and Halla Rempt Software, and it is a part of the KDE community.

What's New in the Latest Version 5.2.3

Last updated on Jun 25, 2024

This update marks the third bugfix release for Krita 5.2, ensuring enhanced stability and performance for users.

Krita Screenshots