And it's in Format, so it automatically works with the Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. Krita Portable is packaged in a Installer so it will automatically detect an existing installation when your drive is plugged in. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike including an intuitive UI, brush stabilizers, a pop-up palette, customizable brush engines, seamless textures and patters, layers, assistance tools, PSD support, and more. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. The brush engine settings backend, which stores all the settings has been rewritten to be more robust and maintainable, as well as preparing it for a user interface redesign.Īnd of, course, there are countless bug fixes, smaller and larger workflow improvements and user interface polish.įirst Beta for Krita 5.2.Krita is a free and open source painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry.NOTE: because of problems updating to the latest version of the jpegxl library on Windows, not all improvements are already available in Beta1 There have been many improvements to the JPEG-XL file format handling.There is a whole new color selector that supports wide-gamut color spaces.The transform tool can now transform all selected layers.If you want to access the new features, you will need to use SVG source code editor from the text tool. Step two is rewriting the actual tool you use to work with text. This provides support for text-on-path, vertical text, wrapped text, text-in=-shape, opentype, emoji and more.

As the first part of a two-part rewrite of text handling in Krita, the text shape has been rewritten completely.

Also for animation, video export has been made much easier: you no longer need to separately download ffmpeg, since ffmpeg now built into Krita.

For animation, audio playback has been rewritten completely using the MLT framework.

The release notes will give you all the details, but here are some highlights: While there are a lot of important user-visible changes that will make artists’ workflow smoother, most work has been inside Krita, preparing Krita for the future. Especially internally, there have been huge changes and improvements. Krita 5.2.0 is a major new release, and the first of the Krita 5.2 series of releases. Krita 5.2.0, a capable free and open source painting program, has received its first beta release for testing.

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