Krita 4.0 Open-Source Digital Painting App Is One of the Biggest Releases Ever | Linux Today

Krita 4.0 Open-Source Digital Painting App Is One of the Biggest Releases Ever

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Marius Nestor
Mar 22, 2018

Packing dozens of new features and improvements, Krita 4.0 is dubbed as one of the biggest releases ever of the popular digital painting app used by numerous artists around the globe. Highlights of this major release include SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) support, a new text tool, improved vector tools, Python scripting, a new splash screen, and much more. Prominent new features of Krita 4.0 include a new Colorize Mask Tool for easy coloring of line-art, the ability to add masks to your brush tip for more lively effects, new brush presets packaged as bundles, the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to particular brush presets, the ability to run scripts while inside Krita with the Internal Scripting Console, and support for quickly switching between brush opacity, size, and flow values.

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Marius Nestor

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