Our problem with doing a proper review of Krita is that we are not 'artists'.

We can choose brushes and paint broad strokes and we can choose colors and play around. Using and testing many of these features is also easy we can add layers and paint on then move them up and down and around. Seeing that there are a lot of features is easy enough. We would very much like to give a really in-depth review of Krita in terms of usability but we can't. Krita works on Linux, *BSD, Windows and Mac OS X. It utilizes multiple CPU cores for great performance and the canvas is OpenGL accelerated. There's python scripting support for animations. It has layers, masks, a huge variety of brushes, easy to use color palettes and there's a standard and a 'artist' palette. It has all the bases covered, digital artists will find that it has everything one could desire from a modern painting program and more. Gradients can now be painting as spirals.Krita is a very advanced printing program and raster graphics editor with a huge toolbox of features. There’s a brand new magnetic selection tool.

There’s a new snapshot docker that stores states of your image, and you can switch between those. We’ve made it possible to put the canvas area in a window of its own, so on a multi monitor setup, you can have all the controls on one monitor, and your images on the other. You can now create animated brush tips that select brush along multiple dimensions. It’s now possible to adjust the opacity and lightness on colored brush tips separately. There’s a color mode in the gradient map filter and a brand new palettize filter and a high pass filter. There’s a whole new set of brush presets that evoke watercolor painting. Three months after the release of Krita 4.2.9, we’ve got a major new feature release for you: Krita 4.3.0! We’ve spent the past year not just fixing bugs, even though we fixed over a thousand issues, but have also been busy adding cool new stuff to play with.

Krita review