Krita is a free and open-source digital painting application available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can be downloaded from the official website as a free installer or portable ZIP file for Windows, and is also available on the Windows Store and Steam for a small fee. On Linux, it is often available through repositories. Krita features a flexible and customizable interface with toolbars, dockable panels, and workspaces. It supports a variety of brushes, colors, layers, and has tools for navigation, selection, and more.
Krita is a free and open-source digital painting application available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can be downloaded from the official website as a free installer or portable ZIP file for Windows, and is also available on the Windows Store and Steam for a small fee. On Linux, it is often available through repositories. Krita features a flexible and customizable interface with toolbars, dockable panels, and workspaces. It supports a variety of brushes, colors, layers, and has tools for navigation, selection, and more.
Krita is a free and open-source digital painting application available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can be downloaded from the official website as a free installer or portable ZIP file for Windows, and is also available on the Windows Store and Steam for a small fee. On Linux, it is often available through repositories. Krita features a flexible and customizable interface with toolbars, dockable panels, and workspaces. It supports a variety of brushes, colors, layers, and has tools for navigation, selection, and more.
Krita is a free and open-source digital painting application available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can be downloaded from the official website as a free installer or portable ZIP file for Windows, and is also available on the Windows Store and Steam for a small fee. On Linux, it is often available through repositories. Krita features a flexible and customizable interface with toolbars, dockable panels, and workspaces. It supports a variety of brushes, colors, layers, and has tools for navigation, selection, and more.
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Introduction to Krita
Krita Installation 1. Windows - Windows users can download Krita from the website, the Windows Store, or Steam. - The versions on the Store and Steam cost money, but are functionally identical to the (free) website version. - Unlike the website version, however, both paid versions get automatic updates when new versions of Krita comes out. After deduction of the Store fee, the purchase cost supports Krita development.
Website: - The latest version is always on their website. - The page will try to automatically recommend the correct architecture (64- or 32-bit), but you can select “All Download Versions” to get more choices. - Krita by default downloads an installer EXE, but you can also download a portable ZIP file version instead. Windows Store: For a small fee, you can download Krita from the Windows Store. This version requires Windows 10. Steam: For a small fee, you can also download Krita from Steam.
Note: Krita requires Windows 7 or newer. The Store version requires Windows 10.
2. Linux - Many Linux distributions package the latest version of
Krita. Sometimes you will have to enable an extra
repository. - Krita runs fine under most desktop enviroments such as KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce etc. – even though it is a KDE application and needs the KDE libraries 3. OS X - You can download the latest binary from our website. The binaries work only with Mac OSX version 10.12 and newer.
INTERFACE - Krita’s interface is very flexible and provides an ample choice for the artists to arrange the elements of the workspace. - An artist can snap and arrange the elements, much like snapping together Lego blocks. - Krita provides a set of construction kit parts in the form of Dockers and Toolbars. Every set of elements can be shown, hidden, moved and rearranged that let the artists easily customize their own user interface experience.
A – Traditional File or action menu found in most windowed applications. B – Toolbar - This is where you can choose your brushes, set parameters such as opacity and size and other settings. C – Sidebars for the Movable Panels/Dockers. In some applications, these are known as Dockable areas. Krita also allows you to dock panels at the top and/or bottom as well. D – Status Bar - This space shows the preferred mode for showing selection i.e. marching ants or mask mode, your selected brush preset, Color Space, image size and provides a convenient zoom control. E – Floating Panel/Docker - These can be “popped” in and out of their docks at any time in order to see a greater range of options. Navigation Tools
1. Panning - This can be done through, Space + and the directional keys.
2. Zooming - Discrete zooming can be done through + and - keys. Using the Ctrl + Space or Ctrl + shortcuts can allow for direct zooming with the stylus. 3. Mirroring - You can mirror the view can be quickly done via M key. Mirroring is a great technique that seasoned digital artists use to quickly review the composition of their work to ensure that it “reads” well, even when flipped horizontally.
4. Rotating - You can rotate the canvas without transforming. It can be done with the Ctrl + [ shortcut or 4`key and the other way with :kbd:`Ctrl + ] shortcut or 6 key. Quick mouse based rotation is the Shift + Space and Shift + shortcuts. To reset rotation use the 5 key. You can also find these under View ‣ Canvas. Dockers - Krita subdivides many of its options into functional panels called Dockers (also known as Docks). Dockers are little subwindows in Krita’s interface. They contain useful tools, like the color selector, layer stack, tool options…. - Dockers are small windows that can contain, for example, things like the layer stack, Color Palette or list of Brush Presets. - Dockers can be removed by clicking the x in the upper-right of the docker-window. Dockers - Dockers, as the name implies, can be docked into the main interface. You can do this by dragging the docker to the sides of the canvas (or top or bottom if you prefer). - Dockers contain many of the “hidden”, and powerful, aspects of Krita that you will want to explore as you start delving deeper into the application. - You can arrange the dockers in almost any permutation and combination according to the needs of your workflow, and then save these arrangements as workspaces. - Dockers can be prevented from docking by pressing the Ctrl key before starting to drag the docker. Sliders - Krita uses these to control values like brush size, opacity, flow, Hue, Saturation, etc.
Example of a Krita slider.
- The total range is represented from left to right and blue bar gives an indication of where in the possible range the current value is. - Clicking anywhere, left or right, of that slider will change the current number to something lower (to the left) or higher (to the right). - To input a specific number, the slider. A number can now be entered directly for even greater precision. - Pressing the Shift key while dragging the slider changes the values at a smaller increment, and pressing the Ctrl key while dragging the slider changes the value in whole numbers or multiples of 5. Toolbars
- Toolbars are where some of the important actions and menus
are placed so that they are readily and quickly available for the artist while painting. Workspace Chooser - The button on the very right of the Toolbar is the workspace chooser. This allows you to load and save common configurations of the user interface in Krita. There are a few common workspaces that come with Krita.
Pop-up Palette Pop-up Palette
- is a feature unique to Krita, designed to increase the productivity of the artist.
- It is a circular menu for quickly choosing brushes, foreground and background colors, recent colors while painting. - To access the palette you have to just on the canvas. The palette will spawn at the position of the brush tip or cursor. - By tagging your brush presets you can add particular sets of brushes to this palette. For example, if you add some inking brush presets to inking tag you can change the tags to inking in the pop-up palette and you’ll get all the inking brushes in the palette. - You can tag brush presets via the Preset Docker - If you call up the pop-up palette again, you can click the tag icon, and select the tag. In fact, you can make multiple tags and switch between them. When you need more than ten presets, go into Settings, Configure Krita… ‣ General ‣ Miscellaneous ‣ Number of Palette Presets and change the number of presets from 10 to something you feel comfortable. STARTING KRITA
- When you start Krita for the first time there will be no canvas or new document open by default. You will be greeted by a welcome screen, which will have option to create a new file or open existing document. - To create a new canvas you have to create a new document from the File menu or by clicking on New File under start section of the welcome screen. This will open the new file dialog box. If you want to open an existing image, either use File ‣ Open… or
drag the image from your computer into Krita’s window.
SAVING KRITA - Now, once you have figured out how to draw something in Krita, you may want to save it. - The save option is in the same place as it is in all other computer programs: the top- menu of File, and then Save. - Select the folder you want to have your drawing, and select the file format you want to use (.kra is Krita’s default format, and will save everything). - And then hit Save. Some older versions of Krita have a bug and require you to manually type the extension. File formats supported - Krita's native document format is Krita Document (.kra). It can also save to many other file formats including PSD.
File formats
Krita Document, OpenRaster document, PSD
image, PPM, PGM, PBM, PNG, GIF, JPEG-2000, JPEG, Save to Windows BMP, XBM, XPM, TIFF, EXR, PDF, Gimp image, WebP, SCML, ICO, TGA, CSV, QML
Import ODG draw, Krita Flipbook, Adobe DNG, Camera RAW, PDF, SVG, XML, XCF only
