Krita is a painting and image editing application for KOffice

Krita is part of KOffice since version 1.4. Krita contains both ease-of-use and fun features like guided painting (never before has it been so easy to airbrush a straight line!) and high-end features like support for 16 bit images, CMYK, L*a*b and even OpenEXR HDR images.

Contents 1 Features 2 Draft Krita 2 Handbook 3 More Information 4 Hints, Tips and Tutorials

Features

• Supports a variety of colorspaces such as RGB, CMYK, and L*a*b
• Load and save to many popular image formats
• A wide range of drawing and painting tools
• Has vector layers that can contain rich, editable text and complex vector objects
• Extend through Python or Ruby scripts

Draft Krita 2 Handbook

Krita needs a new handbook: the 1.6 handbook is completely obsolete. Please find the ongoing draft effort at Krita 2 Manual and help out with new content.

More Information

• Krita Homepage
• Krita FAQ
• Krita Mailing list
• KOffice Website
• Krita development and user help IRC channel
• Krita user forums

Hints, Tips and Tutorials

• Using the Artistic Text Shape is a tutorial that shows how to get started with the artistic text shape that all KOffice applications provide.

• Wacom Graphire 4 classic kubuntu Gutsy ubuntu debian is a video tutorial that should help users of any distro in their setup of the tablet.

• Installing Krita on Windows