The Krita Foundation was created in 2013 to provide support for Krita's development. As a result, the development gained speed and resulted in better performance and stability. Also from that point, the project began to experiment with various ways of funding its development, including Google Summer of Code and funded jobs for students. Ī change of direction happened to the project in 2009, with a new goal of becoming digital painting software like Corel Painter and SAI. In years between 20, Krita was developed as a generic image manipulation software like Photoshop and GIMP.

The first public version of Krita was released with KOffice 1.4 in 2004. To avoid existing trademarks on the market, the project underwent numerous name changes: KImageShop, Krayon, until it was finally settled with 'Krita' in 2002. In 1999, Matthias Elter proposed the idea of building the software using CORBA around ImageMagick. The idea of building a Qt-based image editor was later passed to KImage, maintained by Michael Koch, as a part of KOffice suite. Gradients can now be painting as spirals.Early development of the project can be tracked back to 1998 when Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE, showcased a Qt GUI hack for GIMP at Linux Kongress. There’s a brand new magnetic selection tool. There’s a new snapshot docker that stores states of your image, and you can switch between those. We’ve made it possible to put the canvas area in a window of its own, so on a multi monitor setup, you can have all the controls on one monitor, and your images on the other. You can now create animated brush tips that select brush along multiple dimensions. It’s now possible to adjust the opacity and lightness on colored brush tips separately. There’s a color mode in the gradient map filter and a brand new palettize filter and a high pass filter.

There’s a whole new set of brush presets that evoke watercolor painting. Three months after the release of Krita 4.2.9, we’ve got a major new feature release for you: Krita 4.3.0! We’ve spent the past year not just fixing bugs, even though we fixed over a thousand issues, but have also been busy adding cool new stuff to play with.

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