Krita

Krita is an open source painting, drawing and animation application designed for illustrators, concept artists, comic book creators, animators, texture and pixel artists, matte painters, as well as the VFX industry. Krita is used daily by artists all over the world, from industry professionals, to students, to enthusiastic hobbyists. Krita offers many common and innovative features to make painting more fun and more productive. There are great brush engines for sketching and painting, stabilizers for freehand inking, assistants for constructing a complex scene, a distraction-free canvas-only mode for painting without bother, clone layers, filter and transform masks for non-destructive editing, and too many other features to list! You can also exchange files with other applications in a variety of different formats. Another thing that makes Krita truly stand out is that it's being developed by an international community of open source enthusiasts who want to make a great digital painting application available as widely as possible. There are no draconian activation codes or mandatory monthly subscription fees, because as members of the digital art community, Krita belongs to all of us - to use, to modify, to design, and to share.Our transparent and collaborative process is empowered thanks to the support of our users, and by buying through Steam you will be directly supporting Krita's development. Currently, two volunteers from the community are sponsored to work full-time on Krita. Buying through Steam also delivers the convenience of easy installation on all your supported devices and automatic updates when a new version is released. Finally, because Krita is a community-driven project for artists everywhere, you can also download it for free from the Krita Foundation website. However, you will have to update this version of Krita yourself.Have some questions? Need some help? Feel free to stop by our official forums and Q&A website for support.Key Features: Over a dozen different brush engines, supporting pressure sensitivity, tilt, rotation and other features of graphics tablets. Over a hundred default brushes carefully produced or curated by professional artists. Fully customizable brush presets, for creating your own incredible brushes. Traditional 2D animation. An OpenGL powered, modern canvas with high-bit-depth monitor support and high quality scaling. Wrap-around mode for easily creating and visualizing seamlessly tiled textures and animated patterns. A gallery of filters with real-time preview. You can use almost any filter as an effect layer, for non-destructive workflows. Powerful layer engine allowing deeply nested and grouped layers. Vector, clone, external-file and dynamic filter-effect layers. Assistants Tool and Guides; which help you to sketch straight lines, perfect ellipses, linear perspective, and complex scenes. Multibrush Tool; for drawing with any brush in perfect radial symmetry. Supports a wide range of color models: RGB, CMYK, YCbCr, La*b*, XYZ, Grayscale Supports a wide range of 3rd party file formats: ORA (MyPaint), xcf (GIMP), JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, BMP, PPM, PGM, PBM, XBM, SVG, WMF and also some support for PSD. Fully open source (C++) and scriptable (Python). Krita belongs to all of us - to use, to script, or to mod! There is no limit to what Krita can do if we put our minds to it, whether you can hack it by yourself for personal use or work within the community to make Krita better for everyone. A great online manual, and a fantastic, growing community. Need some help? Have some questions? Stop by our official forums and Q&A website for support.So consider supporting Krita today by buying it through Steam. Join the community, create wonderful artwork and enjoy!