14 DAY TRIAL // Krita is an open-source digital painting software that proved to be a very powerful and useful solution. The developers have just issued a new update for the 2.9 branch of the application, and they have implemented a large number of improvements.
Krita 2.9 is one of the biggest updates in the past couple of years and developers take great pride in this release. On the other hand, Krita is also a massive and complex application that has a lot of working parts. It's only natural to have lots of updates and fixes, not to mention a sleuth of maintenance releases. Such is the case with the 2.9.2 version that further improves upon an already great app.
Krita 2.9 brought some very interesting new features, like the support for opening and working with multiple documents at the same time, brand-new transformation masks and modes, HSI support, experimental Color Slider docker, better blending, anti-aliased brush tips, and a lot more.
Good digital painting apps are hard to find
The Linux platform doesn't have a lot of competition in this area, and there are very few apps that can provide this kind of service and be free at the same time. There are a ton of those on Windows and Mac OS, but they all cost money, a lot of money.
"Most work in the past month has gone into the Qt 5 port (Krita now starts, yay! But it doesn’t work yet…) and most of all the Photoshop-style Layerstyle feature. We’ve got most of the effects implemented, most of the dialog box, too — only the contour selector, the style library selector, and the blending mode page is still missing. Loading and saving are still to be done," said the developers.
According to the changelog, a number of memory leaks have been fixed, geometry of the toolbox has been refined, an option to hide the docker titlebars has been added, MDI background is now darker, and the presets have been fixed as well.
Krita 2.9.2 can be downloaded from Softpedia. It should also arrive on the main software repositories of mainstream distributions.