This is a great tool for non-destructive changes. You can create a transparency layer by itself, or add one to an existing layer. You can also make a selection by layer contents by context clicking the layer and clicking “select opaque”. You can add, remove, or intersect to your selection. You can select with shapes such as rectangles and circle, paint your selection, polgon selection, select by color, select by Bezier. Krita 64-bit comes with many methods of selecting parts of your canvas in order to edit them. The blending modes are arranged by category and have your favorites stored at the top of the list. There is a staggering amount of blending modes available. Brush settings can be saved as presets and shared. The included engines are pixel, smudge, duplicate, filter, hairy, hatching, texture, chalk, color smudge, curve, deform, dyna, experiment (Alchemy), grid, particle, sketch, and spray brushes. Each brush engine has its own logic and behavior. Multiple Brush Engines and Blending ModesĪ brush engine is more than just a typical brush pattern with settings changed. It is one of those features you have to see for yourself. You can even paint off the edge and it will automatically start painting on the top. No more clunky offsetting to see how your image repeats itself.

Continue painting and watch all of the references update instantly. The image will make references for itself along the x and y-axis. Press the ‘W’ key while painting to toggle wrap-around mode. It is easy to create seamless textures and patterns now. There is a large set of options available to create a no-distractions canvas-only painting mode. The OpenGL canvas supports high-bit depth monitors.

The canvas can be easily rotated and mirrored. Save a given set of dockers as a workspace and switch between them. In the settings menu, you can choose the color theme, which toolbars and dockers you want to use, and edit keyboard shortcuts. It was created with the following types of art in mind: concept art, texture or matte painting, illustrations, and comics. Krita is a FREE sketching and painting program. Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other features you would expect. Krita 64-bit is a FREE digital painting and illustration application.

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