The UX of the animation tools has been improved, with a new, more space-efficient animation workspace more functionality available directly from the timeline and a redesigned Animation Curves docker. Other changes include the option to import video files as animated paint layers. Krita 5.0 also introduces support for tweening, with animators now able to animate the position, rotation, scale and shear of any animation layer. Krita’s animation toolset also gets an update, including the much-requested option to clone and reuse keyframes. The new resource manager supports layer styles as well as the existing resource types and makes it possible to mass-tag and mass-delete resources.Īnimation: support for tweening and cloning keyframes Under the hood, handling of resources like gradients, brush presets and palettes has been rewritten, reducing memory usage: in the Krita Foundation’s tests, RAM usage was reduced by 200MB. Rewritten resource manager cuts memory usage and start-up times Krita’s handling of colour gradients has also been improved, with support for blue noise dithering in 8-bit gradients to generate smoother results, and support for wide colour gamuts in 16- and 32-bit gradients.

In addition, the Color Smudge Brush engine has been rewritten to improve performance.īrush textures now support new blend modes, including Hard Mix, Color Dodge, Color Burn and Overlay. It supports brushes created in MyPaint 1.2. The release adds a new MyPaint brush engine, which makes it possible to load brushes created in the open-source painting software in Krita. Krita 5.0 overhauls many of the software’s core toolsets, including its brush engines. New MyPaint brush engine, and improvements to smudge brushes and brush textures New features include a storyboard editor, a timelapse video recorder, two-point perspective guides, and support for tweening and frame cloning in Krita’s animation toolset. Krita 5.0 overhauls many of the software’s core toolsets, adding a new MyPaint brush engine, and improving the software’s resource system and handling of colour gradients. Krita Foundation has begun its new cycle of releases for the open-source digital painting app. Scroll down for news of the Krita 5.2 update.

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