The popular open source painting/drawing application Krita just released the first beta of Krita 5. A ton of improvements behind the scene, including a new 5 years in development resource management system and a UI design should make Krita 5 more enjoyable to use. Of course it comes with several new features such as a new perspective system, animation improvements, MyPaint brush system and more.
Highlight features from the Krita 5 beta release blog:
- The new resource system that we have worked on for five years
- Gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients
- Performance improvements, thanks to the LittleCMS fastfloat plugin
- The all-new MyPaint brush engine
- A completely rewritten color smudge brush engine
- A redesigned animation timeline docker
- Clone frames for animation
- Updated animation curves docker
- Transform mask animation
- The new storyboarding feature
- Refreshed icons and UI polish
- Support for HEIF, AVIF, WebP file formats
- Improved TIFF support
- A new painting recorder
- A new 2-point perspective assistant and a limit area feature for assistants
- In-stack transform tool preview
- Paste into a layer instead of pasting the clip as a new layer
- G’Mic for macOS
Links of Interest
- Krita 5 Beta Release Blog
- Krita 5 Release Notes
- Krita Open Source Repository on GitHub
- MyPaint Brushes
- Krita Documentation
You can learn more about the Krita 5 beta and see it briefly in action in the video below.