KRITA

- The project's name "Krita" is primarily inspired by the Swedish words krita, meaning
"crayon" (or chalk), and rita which means "to draw". Another influence is from the ancient
Indian epic Mahabharata, where the term "krita" is used in a context where it can be
translated into "perfect".
- is a free and open source painting and brushing software tool which is very useful to create
draft drawings and frames for virtual comics and cartoons.
- Is a raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and 2D animation.
- It is one of the most advanced painting and brushing software on the internet.
- It has advanced tools such as brush stabilizing and wrap-around.
- Krita is fully OpenGL enhanced which helps in drafting graphics for bigger projects.
- It also has a drawing and virtual assistant for extra help to the designer.
- It is widely used in the East Asian animation industry for things such as Anime and virtual
comic books.
- You can always make your drafts extra colorful and detailed with the help of Krita.
- It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and Chrome OS.
FEATURES OF KRITA
1. Clean and Flexible Interface
- An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and
panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you
have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create
your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.
• Customizable Layout
• Over 30 dockers for
additional functionality
• Dark and light color
themes
2. It has all the tools you need such as beautiful brushes, brush
stabilizers, vector and text, brush engines, wrap-around mode and
resource manager.
 
3. Simple and Powerful 2D Animation
 
4. Productivity Features such as drawing Assistants, layer
management, select & transform, full color management, openGL
enhanced, PSD support, HDR painting, python scripting and
training resources.
 
5. Krita is, and will always be, free software.
 
MASCOT

- Krita's mascot is Kiki. A cute, left-handed cyber quirrel, a robotic, anthropomorphic

- The first version of Kiki was posted to the KDE forum in 2012 and was used in Krita
version 2.6's introduction booklet. Ithas been used as Krita's startup splash screen
since Krita version 2.8.

- So far, each new version of Krita has come with a new version of Kiki. Kiki has been
used for Krita's merchandise shop items and Krita's Steam project artworks.
A TIMELINE OF KRITA’S
HISTORY
1998
• Internationaler Linux-Kongreß. Matthias Ettrich presents his paper
on “Multi Toolkit Programming: Interoperatibility of different GUI
toolkits for the X Window System”, meant to show how easy it would
be to refactor existing applications using xforms or gtk or motif to Qt.
1999
• Matthias Ettrich proposes to start a new application, next to the
KImage application already in KOffice.
• The KImageShop project is started by Matthias Elter.
2000
• KImageShop is renamed to Krayon. The name KImageShop was
too close to Photoshop.
• John Califf becomes the maintainer of Krayon.
2002
• Krayon is disabled from KOffice because a German court decides
that a website called Crayon which sells cd’s with cartoons holds
the trademark.
• The name Krita is proposed as a replacement for Krayon.
• Patrick Julien becomes the maintainer of Krayon.
2003
• Development of Krita starts to pick up pace again.
2004
• Boudewijn Rempt becomes the maintainer of Krita
• First Preview Release After that, work started on the first
release: 1.4. Part of that work was yet another rewrite of the
entire core engine.
 As Part of KOffice Releases
The KOffice website was first implemented in php, then moved to
a CMS. The php-based website was taken down and later on
removed from KDE’s subversion repository. The cms-based
successor of the koffice.org website was taken down in an act of
vandalism by the last remaining KOffice developer. This means
that for the KOffice part of Krita’s history there are no direct links
to announcements and changelogs anymore.
2005
• KOffice 1.4 released. This is the very first public release of Krita. Krita 1.4 was
first reviewed in Linux Format 71 and in in Linux Reviews.
2006
• With Krita 1.5, support for color management arrived. High channel depths (16
and 32 bits float), and color models like CMYK, L*a*b, LMS and a dedicated
simulation of watercolors, scripting in Python and Ruby using Kross were added.
• Krita 1.6 was the last release of Krita using Qt 3.x and the KDE 3.x libraries.
The port to Qt4 was started. At the 2006 Akademy in Dublin, Krita received the
Best Application Akademy Award. With 1.6, we also claimed that Krita had
become ready for professional work.
2007
• 1.6.2 first fundraiser for Krita, to acquire Wacom tablets for development and
testing.
2008
• We did a lot of coding, but no releases were made.
2009
• KOffice 2.0 was long in the making. The port was very difficult, even though
we got off to a good start. And the 2.0 release was not usable in any real way,
it was labeled as a “tech preview
• Krita was once again getting usable. And with 2.1, we had our own website!
• Krita 2.1 was stable, but slow, and we were still missing features we had in
1.6. There were some exciting new features, too, like the new brush engines.
2010
• Krita 2.2
• Krita 2.3: Chagall Release This was the first end-user ready version of Krita.
2011
• 2.3 Donation drive to fund Krita’s first training DVD
As Part of Calligra
Releases
2012
• Krita 2.4: Moebius Release - This was the first version of Krita
that was ready for professional use.
• 2.5
2013
• 2.6
• 2.7: Was never released. Why not? We’ve forgotten.
2014
• 2.8: Ready for Windows!
2015
• 2.9: The Kickstarter Release
Krita Releases
Krita 3.0
• This version implemented the Animation components and ported Krita to Qt5
Krita 4.0
• This version improved Vectors, Text Tool and Scripting.
Krita 4.1
• This version improved Reference Images Tool, Sessions and performance.
Krita 4.2
• This version brought HDR support, gamut masks and performance.
Krita 4.3
• This version brought new filters, improved brushes, watercolor brush presets,
first beta on Android and ChromeOS, snapshot docker, the magnetic selection
tool is back.
Krita 4.4
• This version brought new generators for Fill layers, SeExpr and updated filters.
KRITA’S LICENSE
Krita is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3. This
license gives you the following rights:

1. You are free to use Krita for any purpose, including the creation of
commercial work, installation in schools or companies.

2. You are free to give other people copies of Krita. Commercial redistribution is
limited, though, because the Krita Foundation owns the trademark. If you want
to sell Krita on e.g. eBay, change the icon and the application name and rebuild
Krita yourself. Inclusion in free download sites is allowed.

3. You can get Krita’s source code, change it, but if you distribute binary builds
of your version of Krita, you need to make your changes available under the
GPL as well. Without delay.
License Details
- Krita as a whole is licensed under GPL v3. Parts
have more permissive licenses, this is indicated in
each source file.
- Our builds of Krita also include third party libraries
licensed under the GPL or a more permissive
license.
- Our source code shows exactly where you can get
the source for those libraries and includes our
changes to those libraries.