Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

• concept art
• texture and matte painters
• illustrations and comics

Krita is also the full-featured free digital painting studio for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry. Krita is used by millions of people all over the world.

Krita has several features that are unique or a first among free software painting applications: support for color spaces other than RGB, like CMYK, support for HDR painting, painting assistants, a perspective grid. The Krita developers are keen to support the artistic community that has grown around Krita.

The name “Krita” comes from Swedish, and means “to draw” or “chalk” and was taken after the names “KImageShop” and “Krayon” gave problems. Krita’s mascot is Kiki, a cybersquirrel designed by Tyson Tan.

Krita is free software, licensed under the GNU Public License, version 2 or later

Downloads

Download the official release of Krita.

If you need professional assistance configuring your deployment, you can use our commercial support to help get you up and running.

Key Terms:

• Krita Graphics Software
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• Open Source Software