Krita

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Mio hi Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 736	Krita Spoiler Overview- Spoiler Krita is always welcoming new contributors! As Krita is a huge and ambitious project, there is always a lot more work than the small core team can handle. The Krita community is very open, welcoming and supportive. We are in particular looking for contributors with a good sense of initiative and commitment (so please don’t disappear without warning halfway through the job!). No resume needed! History- Spoiler The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrich’s at the 1998 Linux Kongress. Matthias wanted to show the ease with which it was possible to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, and the application he choose to demo it with was GIMP. His patch was never published, but did cause problems with the GIMP community at the time. Not being in a position to work together, people within the KDE project decided to start their own image editor application Development focused on an application that was part of the KOffice suite, called KImage, by Michael Koch. Renamed to KImageShop, this was the start of Krita. At the 31st of May, 1999, the KImageShop project officially kicked off with a mail by Matthias Koch. The basic idea back then was to make KImageShop a GUI shell around ImageMagick. It was going to be a corba-based application with out-of-process filter plugins, compatible with GIMP plugins, which are also out-of-process, though of course not corba-based. The name KImageShop fell foul of trademark law in Germany, and KImageShop was renamed to Krayon, which also appeared to infringe on an existing trademark, so Krayon was finally renamed to Krita in 2002. Initial development was slow, but picked up strongly from 2003, resulting in the first public release with KOffice 1.4 in 2004. In 2005, Krita gained support for CMYK, Lab, YCbCr, XYZ color models and high bit depth channels, as well as OpenGL support. From 2004 to 2009, Krita was strongly focusing on being a generic image manipulation/painting application in the style of Photoshop or GIMP. Since 2009, the focus is squarely on painting: the Krita community aims to make Krita the best painting application for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists. From 2009 onwards, the Krita project started funding community members to work on Krita by way of student jobs, in addition to development funded through Google Summer of Code. This experiment has resulted in a huge jump in stability and performance. In 2013, the Krita community created the Krita Foundation, to provide more support for development. - - - Highlights Interface and Workspace https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/user-interface-2-9.jpg (Unsupported image host) Krita has a user-friendly interface. In the settings menu, you can choose the color theme, which toolbars and dockers you want to use, and edit keyboard shortcuts. Save a given set of dockers as a workspace and switch between them. The canvas can be easily rotated and mirrored. The OpenGL canvas supports high-bit depth monitors. There is a large set of options available to create a no-distractions canvas-only painting mode Wrap-Around Mode https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wrap-around-mode.jpg (Unsupported image host) It is easy to create seamless textures and patterns now. Press the ‘W’ key while painting to toggle wrap-around mode. The image will make references of itself along the x and y axis. Continue painting and watch all of the references update instantly. No more clunky offsetting to see how your image repeats itself. You can even paint off the edge and it will automatically start painting on the top. It is one of those features you have to see for yourself. Multiple Brush Engines and Blending Modes https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/brush-engine.jpghttps://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/brush-engine.jpg (Unsupported image host) A brush engine is more than just a typical brush pattern with settings changed. Each brush engine has its own logic and behavior. The included engines are pixel, smudge, duplicate, filter, hairy, hatching, texture, chalk, color smudge, curve, deform, dyna, experiment (Alchemy), grid, particle, sketch, and spray brushes. Brush settings can be saved as presets and shared. There are a staggering amount of blending modes available. The blending modes are arranged by category and have your favorites stored at the top of the list. and more.. - - - - - - I like this Program. <3 Is bae.