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Krita 4.4 Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 13 October 2020 at 07:41 AM EDT. 8 Comments

Krita 4.4 is out today as the latest release for this flagship open-source digital painting program.

Highlights of Krita 4.4 include:

- Multi-threading for fill layers to yield a lot faster performance.

- Support for patterns of fill layers and new screentone options for the fill layer. There is also a multigrid fill layer feature for penrose tilings.

- Support for Disney Animation's SeExpr expression language that is basically used as a tiny shader language for fill layers.

- Various brush engine improvements.

Download links for Linux / macOS / Windows / Chrome OS / Android and more details on the 4.4 changes via Krita.org.

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