Krita
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 Krita 2.0.0 |
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| Developer(s) | The Krita Team |
| Stable release | 2.1.0 / 2009-11-24 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Raster graphics editor |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://www.krita.org |
Krita (Swedish for crayon) is the bitmap graphics editor software included with the KDE based KOffice suite. Designed to be both a painting application and a photo editor, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License. It was released for the first time as a part of KOffice version 1.4.0, on June 21, 2005. Before any public release, it was called KImageShop and then later Krayon, but legal matters motivated a change from these names.
Krita's design emphasizes creating new images as opposed to manipulating existing photographs. It has been influenced to an extent by Corel Painter. As of 2006, many plugins written for these other applications were not yet available for Krita.
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[edit] Origin of name
A "README" file accompanying Krita's source code states:
Krita is a paint application for raster images. It's also, according to the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:
The first of four Hindu periods contained in the great Yuga, when the genius of Truth and Right, in the form of bull, stood firm on his four feet, and man gained nothing by iniquity.
In the Mahabharata, the name 'krita' is used in a context where this can be translated with 'perfect' - the perfect age.
Krita is Swedish for chalk and rita means "to draw".
Krita is Norwegian for buying something on credit.
[edit] Development
A "KImage Shop" was proposed by KDE founder Matthias Ettrich on 24 May 1999, following dissatisfaction with the GIMP's user interface.[1]
[edit] 1.5 release
Notable features introduced in the 1.5 release included CMYK, L*a*b and many more color spaces, with bit depths from 8 to 32 bits per channel.
Krita 1.5 also integrated with KOffice, allowing (among other things) embedding of KWord text components into images.
[edit] 1.6 release
The 1.6 release added support for handling perspective in drawings, including perspective transformation, perspective grid and perspective clone, layer masks, some enhanced tools such as a new magnetic selection tool and a bezier curves tool, many new filters and a PDF import tool.
[edit] Future
Work is ongoing on support for natural painting tools that imitate painting or drawing with pencils, or paint brushes with ink or oil paints, even simulating the drying of the paint. The development version of Krita is the first publicly available paint program with realistic color mixing[2].
Now the work is being focused on KDE 4, for which natural painting tools are planned, but also better KOffice integration, better performance and being more feature-complete.
[edit] Notes and references
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Krita project webpage
- Krita on KDE UserBase
- KOffice 1.6 Tour, including Krita
- Krita Alpha Build for Windows
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