



Subsequently, when you have finished your designs, you have several supports for both importing and exporting images in popular formats, being able to cite some as Photoshop PSD, PNG, BMP, GIF, or JPEG. Without going any further, we might add that one of the issues that won us over about this program is how intuitive it ends up being, even for those who are not so used to illustrating on PC. Of course, it may not reach the quality of others like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Painter, but it is more than enough to test our ability and how far it goes.Īnd if you feel a bit overwhelmed as soon as you open it, you'll quickly discover that everything is exactly where you think you might find it and that the colors stand out against the gray backgrounds that barely want to participate. Since its birth, Krita has aimed to give a hand to those interested in illustration but still doing their first weapons or knowing what this world is about and can not or do not want to pay for an expensive service. To this, we have to add that it offers tools that are not always present in free utilities, such as bitmaps or vector illustrations, which are highly valued. It also has integration with Calligra Suite, which many of you will probably still know under Koffice, although it has been modified. Renamed to KImageShop, this was the start of Krita.The system is based on the KDE platform libraries to allow us to perform this task.

His patch was never published, but did cause problems with the GIMP community at the time.Not being in a position to work together, people within the KDE project decided to start their own image editor application development focused on an application that was part of the KOffice suite, called KImage, by Michael Koch. Matthias wanted to show the ease with which it was possible to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, and the application he chose to demo it with was GIMP. The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrich’s at the 1998 Linux Kongress. The name “Krita” comes from Swedish, and means “to draw” or “chalk” and was taken after the names “KImageShop” and “Krayon” gave problems.
