


The sliders allows you to drag vertically to influence it less without pressing any buttons. The toolbar’s white line is finally gone while buttons are now borderless, leaving the icons a bit bigger. The color wheel by default uses the background color of a docker, but of course can be changed to any color you like. The starting screen elements are now aligned better. Let’s move on the thing that we will notice much easier – the interface. On top of that, Krita startup should also be a bit faster and the program itself should use less system memory. The system responsible for holding all the resources like brushes, tips, textures and so on was rewritten from scratch. The biggest difference is that now RGBA brush tips known from the Pixel engine, can be used here as well.

The new smudging algorithm while creating the same outcome as before works up to 2 times faster. The very detailed look at all of the prominent changes for Krita 5.0 can be found via the release notes.The second main brush engine received even more love in Krita 5.0. Krita 5.0 is a huge update and binaries are available for Windows, Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Android along with the sources.ĭownloads and more details on Krita 5.0 via. Krita 5.0 also features improvements to gradients, the smudge brush engine has been rewritten, the animation system has been overhauled, there is now a built-in storyboard editor, a recorder to make a video out of painting sessions, and a heck of a lot more. Krita 5.0 revamps its handling of brushes / gradients / palettes so they are now faster and use "much less" memory as well as being more reliable. Krita 5.0 is a wonderful end-of-year gift for open-source artists and others making use of this software over the past decade and a half. Krita is easily one of the best digital painting / 2D animation / raster graphics programs out there for being open-source / free software and today is now even better with the Krita 5.0 release.
