Krita

Krita is an open source digital painting and drawing application You can get regular updates and news at Krita's official site:Krita.org

Krita is part of the Calligra Suite . It 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.

Krita 2.0 alpha 10 -- painting by Enkhitan using Lukas Tvrdy's brush engine

Features

• Focused on digital painting lines for concept art, comics, matte or texturing
• 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
• Extensible through OpenShiva, 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.

Get it

The easiest way to get Krita is installing by means of your distribution, e.g. for openSUSE 11.4:

yast -i koffice2-krita

More Information

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

Hints, Tips and Tutorials

• 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