After more than a year of development, the release of the raster graphics editor Krita 5.2.0, intended for artists and illustrators, is presented. The editor supports multi-layer image processing, provides tools for working with various color models and has a large set of tools for digital painting, sketching and texture formation. Self-sufficient images in AppImage format for Linux, experimental APK packages for ChromeOS and Android, as well as binary assemblies for macOS and Windows have been prepared for installation. The project is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Main innovations:
- The home screen has been updated to display larger thumbnails of recently opened images.
- The tools for working with animation have introduced synchronized audio playback and simplified the video export process (built-in FFmpeg is offered).
- The text placement engine has been completely rewritten, not only retaining all previously available functionality, such as placing text along a guide, vertical display, and surrounding objects with text, but also adding additional features, such as emoji support and access to OpenType functions.
- The functionality of cumulative undo changes has been redesigned, allowing you to combine typical undo operations, for example, you can undo a series of strokes at once.
- Added the ability to smooth the result of drawing with a sketch brush with information about the animation.
- The transformation tool now supports transforming all selected layers at once.
- Added a new fill mode to fill areas of similar color. Added the functions “Stop zooming on the darkest and/or most transparent pixels” and “Fill all areas to a certain boundary color.” Added the ability to use the same blending mode as the Brush tool.
- New options for expanding a selected area have been added to the Contiguous Selection Tool, similar to the options for expanding the Fill Tool. Added support for setting opacity and taking into account DPI when creating a selection.
- Added new keyboard shortcuts to display layer selection menus on canvas, switch profiles, and select colors on screen. Made the hotkey scheme compatible with Clip Studio Paint.
- A panel for selecting a wide range of colors (Wide Gamut Color Selector) has been implemented, allowing you to select colors in the Wide gamut color space, and not just in sRGB.
- The Layers panel includes options to show additional information, such as opacity or blending modes. Simplified selection of multiple layers in the Android version.
- Improved design of the horizontal version of the brushes panel.
- Added the ability to configure the brush profile log.
- Undo and Redo operations have been added to the palette panel.
- The code for setting brushes has been rewritten to work with the Lager library, which will allow us to modernize the design of the brush settings widget in the future.
- In the “Tile” mode, the ability to select the filling direction has been added.
- The Recent Documents list now supports deleting individual items.
- Improved tablet testing interface.
- On the Android platform, the interface for selecting a resource location has been simplified.
- Improved display of color profile names.
- Added a new blend mode - Lambert Shading.
- CMYK based blend modes work closer to Photoshop for easier PSD file sharing.
- Improved saving and loading of JPEG-XL images. Added CMYK support for JPEG-XL, optimized color information compression, improved metadata processing and layer recording/saving.
- WebP image compression has been optimized, animation support has been added, and metadata processing has been improved.
- Improved handling of multi-layer EXR files.
- Improved import of RAW images.
Source: opennet.ru
