Of course there are many, many more features. Take the tour to see the main improvements!
In short, Krita 2.4 lets you get organized. We fully expect artists to have many hundred presets, so Srikanth added a tagging feature - you can add tags to your presets and query the installed presets by tag.
#KRITA SYMMETRY CODE#
Srikanth Tiyyagura's Google Summer of Code project has been fully integrated: this brings Get Hot New Stuff integration to all Krita resources, including brush presets. We have also new shortcut keys to make resize your active brush, change opaicity or darken or lighten the current color. We have a new brush preset palette, which makes it easier to pick the right brush preset while painting, and you can add your favourite presets to the right-click popup palette. The brush editor has seen an enormous amount of work, with many new possibilities for fine-tuning Krita's brush engines for the effect you want. In according with our master plan, Krita 2.4 development has focussed on making painting as fast and fun as possible. Help us out and find those bugs for us! Detailed instructions after the commercial break.
#KRITA SYMMETRY INSTALL#
Already usable, but not perfect yet, this is the perfect moment for you to install Krita and try to break it.
#KRITA SYMMETRY WINDOWS#
Or you could wait till the new feature ends up in the main development branch of GIMP (apparently, soon) and thus becomes available in nightly builds for Windows and Ubuntu, as well as in builds at .Īdditionally, if you’ve been wondering what the GIMP team has been busy with lately, here’s an extensive 2014 report.Today, the Krita team is releasing the first 2.4. If you are curious to try the symmetry mode for painting tools, you need to build babl and GEGL from Git master, then clone Git repository of GIMP and checkout the ‘multi-stroke’ branch, then build it. There are no known builds of this development branch yet.
So the new feature could be another reminder that there is more to GIMP than cropping, retouching, and color grading. Moreover, Jehan is considering an implementation of pluggable symmetries, although don’t take it for a promise just yet.ĭespite hard evidence a lot of people still treat GIMP as a generic image editor rather than something suitable for digital painting. The project wasn’t 100% funded until several months ago, so Jehan spent most of the time doing what he had been doing for GIMP before: fixing bugs.Īs you can see, the current implementation goes beyond the original proposal: there are multiple kinds of symmetry, and they are all configurable.
Symmetry mode for painting tools is the second community-sponsored development project for GIMP endorsed by the GIMP team (the first being improved interpolation methods).