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Krita - Open Source Painting Program (Part 1 of 2)

Krita

Free and Open Source Digital Painting

https://krita.org/en/


In their own words:
Krita is a FREE and open source painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike.

Supported Platforms:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Macintosh

Price: $0

A huge step up from Paint 

Krita is both a raster and a vector graphics program presented in an easy way for digital artists to create. Before finding this software my go-to editor was Photoshop Elements. This editor is stuffed full of features including fading brush strokes, mirroring, unlimited layering, digital pen support, masking and algebraic geometry including vector primitives similar to Inkscape. The documentation is provided online so be aware you need to be connected to the internet when trying to learn the features of this software   .

Notable Features

  1. Excellent Color Selection Tools.
  2. Variety of Brushes for Raster based editing. Sometimes the texture of a single brush is enough to launch you into a composition. This tool shows versatility in your brush selection including digital pen support
  3. Smart Curves for easier flowing lines
  4. Tools for measuring your drawing. Getting proportion and angle correct are essential when creating a composition. Now you can use more than your eyes to guide you.
  5. Many File Formats to choose from including all of the standards expected for image editing software.
  6. Keyframe Animation.  I will have to try this one out!

Continued in Part 2 with Examples

Happy Hunting!
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