Krita is a paint and image editor application under KOffice.
If you're looking for a free image editing and painting software, Krita might just be the application for you. It's still under development, but it already provides a solid framework for building an application on. Although Krita is not officially part of the regular KOffice releases, the source code is available from the KDE SVN repository. The developers are working hard to get Krita to a releasable state for KOffice 1.4.
One of the best things about Krita is that it is free software that uses GPL Licensing. This means you have the same rights to own, copy, and modify the software for commercial or personal use without restricting the freedom of others to do the same.
Krita comes equipped with a range of features that make it an excellent tool for painting, creating brushes, filling colors and patterns, and adding gradients. It also allows for erasing, airbrushing, creating simple geometric forms, applying many filters, and undoing and redoing changes. Image files can be loaded and saved in Krita's native format, and you can import and export images in all file formats supported by your installation of ImageMagick. Other capabilities include adding, removing, merging, and reordering layers, layer transparency, loading Gimp brushes, pipe brushes, gradients, and patterns, zooming, selecting colors, scaling, and much more.
So far, Krita offers brushes, drawing, and layer editing tools and supports RGB, RGBA, and Grayscale color modes with adjustable color selectors. Import and export functionality for png, jpg, xpm, tiff, and bmp images, including color-indexed images, is complete. Users may also save and load layer and channel information and full 32-bit image data using an XML file format. There are also editing and selection tools for color management, dithering, transparency, blending, and color reductions. Multiple views of an image and multiple images in the same view are currently available, with gradients and patterns still under development. Users can also cut, copy, and paste between images and layers using rectangular area and basic selection methods.
Krita is currently working on masking selected regions during painting operations and creating user-definable brushes. It is partially complete in terms of color editing and selection tools, while graphical access to layer and channel information is also partly functional. Krita allows for embedding in other KOffice applications, and Krita's basic functionality is user-oriented with documentation provided to guide users. Finally, Scripting using kjsembed is also possible.
Apart from its current capabilities, Krita has a lot of planned features as well. These include HSV, Wet & Sticky, and Wet Canvas color models, image manipulation filters for advanced import/export, and a wide range of selection methods that includes fuzzy selection and boundary detection. Additionally, Krita will also support scripting with Python language.
Krita also supports the KParts architecture and plugins for effects, operation on images and selections, additional tools, additional filters, and components loaded as needed. Overall, Krita is an impressive piece of software that offers a lot of functionalities and is worth considering for all your image editing and painting needs.
One of the best things about Krita is that it is free software that uses GPL Licensing. This means you have the same rights to own, copy, and modify the software for commercial or personal use without restricting the freedom of others to do the same.
Krita comes equipped with a range of features that make it an excellent tool for painting, creating brushes, filling colors and patterns, and adding gradients. It also allows for erasing, airbrushing, creating simple geometric forms, applying many filters, and undoing and redoing changes. Image files can be loaded and saved in Krita's native format, and you can import and export images in all file formats supported by your installation of ImageMagick. Other capabilities include adding, removing, merging, and reordering layers, layer transparency, loading Gimp brushes, pipe brushes, gradients, and patterns, zooming, selecting colors, scaling, and much more.
So far, Krita offers brushes, drawing, and layer editing tools and supports RGB, RGBA, and Grayscale color modes with adjustable color selectors. Import and export functionality for png, jpg, xpm, tiff, and bmp images, including color-indexed images, is complete. Users may also save and load layer and channel information and full 32-bit image data using an XML file format. There are also editing and selection tools for color management, dithering, transparency, blending, and color reductions. Multiple views of an image and multiple images in the same view are currently available, with gradients and patterns still under development. Users can also cut, copy, and paste between images and layers using rectangular area and basic selection methods.
Krita is currently working on masking selected regions during painting operations and creating user-definable brushes. It is partially complete in terms of color editing and selection tools, while graphical access to layer and channel information is also partly functional. Krita allows for embedding in other KOffice applications, and Krita's basic functionality is user-oriented with documentation provided to guide users. Finally, Scripting using kjsembed is also possible.
Apart from its current capabilities, Krita has a lot of planned features as well. These include HSV, Wet & Sticky, and Wet Canvas color models, image manipulation filters for advanced import/export, and a wide range of selection methods that includes fuzzy selection and boundary detection. Additionally, Krita will also support scripting with Python language.
Krita also supports the KParts architecture and plugins for effects, operation on images and selections, additional tools, additional filters, and components loaded as needed. Overall, Krita is an impressive piece of software that offers a lot of functionalities and is worth considering for all your image editing and painting needs.
What's New
Version 1.6.3: N/A