Description
People who want to draw often get stuck at the software: professional painting tools charge by the month, and the free ones ship with a handful of brushes and patchy pen-pressure support. Krita erases that barrier — a professional-grade painting program built for artists, entirely free and open-source, covering digital illustration, concept art, comics and frame-by-frame animation.
From the KDE community, on Windows, macOS and Linux, developed with the involvement of people who actually paint.
Dozens of brush engines: nine brush-engine families and hundreds of presets — oils, watercolor, pencil, airbrush — with every parameter adjustable and savable into your own shareable bundles.
Real pen-pressure support: solid handling of pressure and tilt for Wacom and other tablets, so stroke weight and nib angle respond in real time for a feel close to real paper.
Animation timeline: built-in frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning and a timeline, so a finished still turns into a short animation without switching apps.
Layers and masks: full layers, blend modes, filter masks and layer groups, with vector layers for comic speech bubbles and layout.
Drawing assistants: perspective guides, mirroring and stroke smoothing make clean perspective and symmetrical compositions much less work.
From the KDE community, on Windows, macOS and Linux, developed with the involvement of people who actually paint.
Features
Dozens of brush engines: nine brush-engine families and hundreds of presets — oils, watercolor, pencil, airbrush — with every parameter adjustable and savable into your own shareable bundles.
Real pen-pressure support: solid handling of pressure and tilt for Wacom and other tablets, so stroke weight and nib angle respond in real time for a feel close to real paper.
Animation timeline: built-in frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning and a timeline, so a finished still turns into a short animation without switching apps.
Layers and masks: full layers, blend modes, filter masks and layer groups, with vector layers for comic speech bubbles and layout.
Drawing assistants: perspective guides, mirroring and stroke smoothing make clean perspective and symmetrical compositions much less work.
