Welcome to the July 2025 development and community update. Development Report Text Tool Rework Progress Another important piece of the Text Tool update has made it into the unstable nightly builds: Style Presets.| Krita
Welcome to the June 2025 development and community update. Development Report Krita 5.2.11 Released A new bugfix release, Krita 5.2.11, is out. Check out the release notes for 5.2.10 and the release post for 5.2.11 and stay up to date.| Posts on Krita
Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.11! This is a bug fix release for Krita 5.2.10, especially for Krita on Android where there were intermittent issues displaying the canvas properly.| Posts on Krita
Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.10! This is a bug fix release. After this release we will focus on releasing Krita 5.3.0, the next feature release, and Krita 6.0.0, the first release based on Qt6.| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the May 2025 development and community update. Community Report May 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results 24 forum members took on the challenge of the "Humongous Hats" theme. And the winner is… Mouse Sage 🐭 by @Mythmaker| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the April 2025 development and community update. Development Report Text Tool Rework Progress Read Wolthera's new post about font metrics handling for an explanation of recent improvements in 5.3.0-prealpha regarding font size, line height, baseline alignment, and text decoration.| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the March 2025 development and community update. Development Report Text Tool Rework Progress Wolthera is still buried in text work for 5.3. Add Language text property, which is important for font-shaping, line-break, word-break and text-transform. (Change) Better font unit conversion and other small fixes. (Change) Ensure alignment, dominant-baseline and baseline-shift follow CSS-inline-3 and SVG2. (Change) Rework text decorations so they are calculated as per css-text-decor-4. (C...| Posts on Krita
Some time ago we reached out to Wesley Gardner because, a bit belatedly, we saw he has published a great book on Krita, titled Draw and Paint Better with Krita.| Posts on Krita
Twinimation Studios have released a new Krita workshop, and we wanted to give them a chance to introduce their new offering to Krita's users: Greetings everyone! Entering the art world is sometimes seen as an expensive endeavor. From art schools to subscription based software, artists across different fields tend to have notable expenses. But have you ever wondered if you can become an artist without spending a fortune? Twinimtion Studios is back to answer the question with our very first ful...| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the February 2025 development and community update. Development Report Text Tool Rework Update Wolthera has written a new post about recent Text Tool updates which will be coming in Krita 5.3.| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's January 2025 development and community update. Development Report Krita 5.2.9 Released A new bugfix release is out! Check out the Krita 5.2.9 release post and keep up-to-date with the latest version.| Posts on Krita
If you don’t know what Fast Sketch Cleanup plugin is, here’s a blog post describing it in detail: https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/fast_sketch_background/. In short, it’s a neural network-based filter similar to Edge Detection or Engrave that is supposed to clean up a sketch and create lines that can be used as a base for a lineart or help with coloring.| Posts on Krita
Ramon Miranda has published a new video on the Krita channel: Memilio Impasto Brushes! Who doesn't love a nice impasto effect!| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's December 2024 development and community update. Development Report Krita 5.2.9 Coming Soon After taking some time off for the holidays, the team is getting ready to start the year with a new bugfix release. This will contain all the stable fixes from the community bug hunt and more, so stay tuned!| Posts on Krita
Fast Sketch Cleanup plugin Introduction We started this project with the intent of providing users a tool helpful in inking sketches. It is based on a research article by Simo & Sierra published in 2016, and it uses neural networks (now commonly called simply AI) to work. The tool has been developed in partnership with Intel and it’s still considered experimental, but you can already use it and see the results.| Posts on Krita
Together with Intel, we have been working a new plugin for Krita: the fast sketch plugin, or maybe, better, a fast inking plugin. This is an experimental plugin that makes it (sometimes) possible to automatically ink a sketch, using neural networks.| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's November 2024 development and community update. Development Report Community Bug Hunt Ended The Community Bug Hunt has ended, with dozens of bugs fixed and over a hundred bug more reports closed. Huge thanks to everyone who participated, and if you missed it, the plan is to make this a regular occurrence.| Posts on Krita
We have updated Krita for Android and ChromeOS in the Google Play Store to 5.2.8, an Android/ChromeOS-only emergency release. This release fixes startup problems that happened on some devices with 5.2.6. Krita 5.2.8 for Android is now available both for beta-track users as well as in the "stable" release track. Note, however, that we still recommend treating Krita on Android as a beta release that might have bugs that impair your work, as well as a user interface that is not optimized for tou...| Posts on Krita
Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's October 2024 development and community update. Development Report Android-only Krita 5.2.8 Hotfix Release Krita 5.2.6 was reported to crash on startup on devices running Android 14 or later. This was caused by issues with an SDK update required for release on the Play Store, so a temporary 5.2.7 release reverting it was available from the downloads page only.| Posts on Krita
Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.9! This is a bug fix release, containing all bugfixes of our bug hunt efforts back in November. Major bug-fixes include fixes to clone-layers, fixes to opacity handling, in particular for file formats like Exr, a number of crash fixes and much more!| Krita
We are releasing the first Beta of Krita 5.2.3. This release primarily brings a complete overhaul of our build system, making it so that our CI system can now build for all 4 platforms (a Continuous Integration system basically builds a program after every change, runs some tests and based on that helps us track down mistakes we made when changing Krita's code).| Krita
Halla Rempt Twenty-five years. A quarter century. That's how long we've been working on Krita. Well, what would become Krita. It started out as KImageShop, but that name was nuked by a now long-dead German lawyer. Then it was renamed to Krayon, and that name was also nuked. Then it was renamed to Krita, and that name stuck.| Krita