Krita
Free digital painting application for illustrators, concept artists and comic creators, built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
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Krita is a free and open-source cross-platform application for creating digital art from scratch. It is a digital painting program meant for artists who want to produce professional work from start to finish, and it is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters, and the digital VFX industry.
It is built on the KDE and Qt frameworks. The GitHub repository is only a mirror, since the real code lives on KDE's invent.kde.org. The project offers a user manual at docs.krita.org, API documentation, a bug tracker, a community forum at krita-artists.org and an IRC channel where most developers can be found. Nightly builds for both unstable and stable branches are available from KDE's CI server.
Krita is written in C++ and licensed under GPL-3.0. The README includes a repository status table with feature and string freeze information for the current branch, and developer builds for Linux with debug symbols can be fetched from the CI system.
Key features
- Digital painting for illustration and concept art
- Cross-platform on KDE and Qt
- Nightly and stable builds from KDE CI
- Online user manual and API docs
- Community forum and IRC support
Pricing: Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license.
