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Photo Editing on Linux with Krita

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Carla Schroder
Aug 30, 2014

Krita is a wonderful drawing and painting program, and it’s also a nice photo editor. Today we will learn how to add text to an image, and how to selectively sharpen portions of a photo.

Navigating Krita

Like all image creation and editing programs, Krita contains hundreds of tools and options, and redundant controls for exposing and using them. It’s worth taking some time to explore it and to see where everything is.

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Carla Schroder

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