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.

The release overhauls many of Krita’s core toolsets, adding a new MyPaint brush engine, and improving the software’s resource system and handling of colour gradients. Krita Foundation has released Krita 5.0, a major update to the open-source digital painting software.

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