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Krita

Krita is a free and open-source painting and 2D animation program featuring customizable brush engines, stabilizers, vector tools, and layer management.

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Krita application window featuring the canvas and dockers for the Advanced Color Selector, Tool Options, Quick Settings, Layers, and Brush Presets.

About Krita

Krita is a free and open-source painting and 2D animation application licensed under the GNU GPL. It features a customizable user interface with moveable dockers, over 100 preloaded brushes, and multiple brush engines. The software provides brush stabilizers, vector tools supporting SVG, wrap-around mode for seamless textures, and layer management. Additionally, Krita includes a dedicated 2D animation workspace with timeline controls and onion skinning, drawing assistants for perspective, full color management with LCMS and OpenColor IO, PSD support, and Python scripting for extensions.

What you can do

  • Brush customization and stroke stabilization using specialized brush engines and smoothing tools.

  • 2D frame-by-frame animation with multi-layer timeline controls, onion skinning, audio import, and video export.

  • Vector graphic and text editing with built-in templates and SVG format support.

  • Perspective and shape drawing aids including vanishing point and curvilinear fisheye assistants.

  • Full color management pipeline supporting ICC profiles via LCMS and OpenColor IO for EXR.

  • Creates seamless textures and patterns by repeating the image along both axes and updating every reference while painting.

  • Imports third-party brush and texture packs and packages custom brushes into shareable bundles.

  • Organizes artwork with vector, filter, group, and file layers that can be combined, reordered, and flattened.

  • Loads and saves PSD files for exchanging artwork with other programs.

  • Provides a Python API using PyQt for creating custom widgets and extensions.