Krita

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Krita

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Krita 4.0
Basic data

Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt
developer Krita Foundation, KDE
Publishing year June 21, 2005
Current  version 4.3.0
( June 16, 2020 )
operating system GNU / Linux, Microsoft Windows , macOS , BSD operating system, unix-like system , platform independence
programming language C ++
category Digital painting
License GNU General Public License, version 3
German speaking Yes
Krita.org

Krita (formerly KImageshop and Krayon ) is a free drawing program from KDE . For some time it was part of the KOffice office suite and is part of the Calligra Suite from version 2.4 . Krita is mainly designed as a painting program, but also contains functions for image editing . Krita is available for Windows , Linux and macOS .

history

After attempts to develop a Qt- based KDE variant of the GIMP had failed, Matthias Ettrich proposed on May 24, 1999 to develop an image processing program from scratch.

In January 2002 the original name KImageshop had to be changed at the insistence of a lawyer - from then on the project was called Krayon. In 2003, development was slow, until a new group of developers came together in October, which continued the development of the program under the name Krita (Swedish for chalk).

On June 21, 2005 the first version of Krita was published together with KOffice 1.4.

Since 2014, the development has been financed through annual donation campaigns on Kickstarter.com , starting with version 2.9. This enabled full-time employees to be employed who work on extensive performance optimizations.

Special features of the program

From version 1.5, Krita supports the color spaces RGB (8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit), LAB (16 bit), Grayscale (8 bit and 16 bit) and also CMYK (8 bit and 16 bit). Krita also natively supports the OpenEXR format and can be used to process HDR images in this format.

Web links

Commons : Krita  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e In: Free Software Directory .
  2. ↑ github.com . June 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ The krita Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page . In: Open Hub . (accessed on July 14, 2018).
  4. ↑ Krita Desktop. Download page. In: Krita.org. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Ettrich: KImage Shop? [what: Re: K abiword port] on kde-devel e-mail list, May 24, 1999
  6. ↑ Krita: open source digital painting | Accelerate Development
  7. ↑ Krita 2.9: The Kickstarter Release. Krita.org, February 25, 2015, accessed February 26, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Baader: New Kickstarter campaign for Krita. In: Pro-Linux . May 4, 2015, accessed June 16, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Cyrille Berger: One day One Feature: full colorspace independence ( Memento from May 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on his private blog, January 23, 2006