Krita
Digital painting and illustration software, offering a wide range of brushes, customizable settings, and support for animation
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| + | Customizable Interface | Allows you to customize dockers and panels for your specific workflow |
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| + | Brushes and Brush Engines | Offers a wide variety (100+) of brushes and the ability to customize them, catering to different artistic styles and needs |
| + | Brush Stabilizers | For artists who want smoother lines, especially helpful for those with shaky hands |
| + | Vector & Text Tools | Creating comics and illustrations that include text elements |
| + | Wrap-around Mode | Tool for creating seamless patterns and textures. The image references itself along the x and y axes, allowing you to continue painting without clunky offsetting. |
| + | Resource Manager | Sharing and importing brush, texture packs and other resources allows artists to expand their toolset and collaborate |
| + | 2D Animation | Basic animation capabilities which can be useful for creating simple animations or storyboards |
| + | Layer Management | Essential for non-destructive editing in digital painting |
| + | PSD Support | Allows for compatibility with other popular software like Photoshop |
| + | Onion Skinning | Makes it easier to create smooth transitions between animation frames by providing a faint overlay of the previous and next frames |
| + | Tweening | Offers basic tweening capabilities, which can automate the creation of in-between frames for simple animations involving changes in opacity or position |
System Requirements
Version ↓
| # | Minimum | Recommended |
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| 1 | Windows 8.1 or higher, macOS 10.12, Linux | |
| 2 | 4GB | 16 GB |
| 3 | OpenGL 3.0 or higher / Direct3D 11 | |
| 4 | Any tablet compatible with your operating system |
Ratings
4.135
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