Krita 2.8 Provides Many New Features To Artists

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Krita 2.8 Provides Many New Features To Artists

The big Krita 2.8 release of this KDE oriented open-source digital painting program has been released...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTYyMjI

[MannerMan]

Very nice indeed! I'll be sure to try this out when I get home. Really hope the improved tablet support is going to make a difference.
Currently with my Intous 5, the quickbuttons behave very weird in some scenarios, compared to Windows. And lets not even speak of the touch/gesture-support

[interested]

What? Haven't checked out Krita for years, and when I look now it has become a full featured drawing program. Amazing features like "Pseudo Infinite canvas" and the amount of different brushes are great:


I think it is wonderful that such professional and feature rich programs are available for free as Free software.

[FearedTakyon]

Very nice indeed! I'll be sure to try this out when I get home. Really hope the improved tablet support is going to make a difference.
Currently with my Intous 5, the quickbuttons behave very weird in some scenarios, compared to Windows. And lets not even speak of the touch/gesture-support

What DE are you under? If you're using anything other than Gnome 3.10 then you may have problems with your tablet. Check out this article for more information: http://www.davidrevoy.com/article/21...-painting.html

[madjr]

great piece of software

[dee.]

Krita is the best digital drawing software there is, period.

[Azpegath]

Krita is the best digital drawing software there is, period.

Have you tried MyPaint? It's quite good as well. When I got myself a Wacom I tried it and liked it. You just have to completely rely on keyboard shortcuts, otherwise everything takes to long.

I didn't try Krita though, I wonder why... Can't remember now.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Krita is the best digital drawing software there is, period.

Aren't unsubstantiated opinions great?

[F i L]

Aren't unsubstantiated opinions great?

Seriously though. Graphics artist and (hobbyist) painter here. Used Photoshop. User Painter. Krita is better than both in many ways & on-par in others, especially with the new release. Haven't tried CS6 or the latest Painter, but Krita is also much much faster in my experience (Linux Krita vs Window Photoshop/Painter). Unless you're a professional photographer and need Photoshop's fancy liquid filters, Krita is simply the best tool for digital artist considering the price ;D