Krita 5.0.0 has already been released and these are its news

Recently the release of the new version of Krita 5.0.0 was announced which is an editor supports multilayer image processing, provides tools to work with different color models, and has a wide range of tools for digital painting, sketching, and texture formation.

The new version stands out for implementing various improvements to the tools offered by the application, in addition to the fact that some elements have been reworked, among other changes.

Main new features of Krita 5.0.0

In this new version of Krita 5.0.0 we can find that the user interface has been modernized, along with the pictograms that were updated and that also provided the ability to separate the brush editor from the panel into a separate window, added an option to hide the controls in the overview panel and the docking panels function was added.

Another of the changes that stands out in this new version is that the code for resource management has been completely rewritten such as brushes, gradients and palettes, as well as the labeling system.

The new implementation is translated to use the SQLite library and it stands out for solving many old problems that arose when loading resources and working with tags. All resources are now loaded at the same time, leading to shorter startup times and a significant decrease in memory consumption.

In addition to that, we can find that a new package manager with resources was implemented, se added the ability to customize the location of the directory with resources, which was previously written in the code and in addition to working with standard resource packs, support has been added for libraries with Photoshop-ready brushes and layer styles.

On the other hand, it is highlighted that a new resource management interface has been added, as the ability to attach labels to layer styles, search for styles, and load multiple styles at once from an ASL file was provided.

It is also highlighted that color management was improved by using the LittleCMS plugin The default, which uses fast floating point calculations and represents colors more accurately.

The implementation of the smudge brush has been completely redesigned, which has been moved to a new engine based on developments from the MyPaint project. Support for MyPaint brushes has been moved from the plugin to the main composition and Krita can now load and use brushes ready for MyPaint 1.2.

Added new modes for texture brushes: Hard Blend, Dodge Color, Darker Color, Overlay, Height, Linear Height, etc.

Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:

  • The system for creating animations has been reworked.
  • Support for animated transform skins and clone frames was added and the layout of the timeline, which contains the animation panel, has been modified.
  • The animation in the Animation Curves panel has been redesigned to improve navigation and editing capabilities.
  • Individual channels can now be hidden or edited individually. Scalable scroll bars and new options such as 'Fit to curve' and 'Fit to channel' have been added.
  • The ability to pause animation at any time is provided, layer adjustment is simplified, and automatic adjustment is provided when adding keyframes.
  • The Copy Frames feature has been added, allowing you to use a keyframe multiple times in an animation, for example to create a looping animation.
    Added support for animating the position, rotation, scale and translation of any layer using a transform mask.
    It provided the ability to import videos and animated images in the form of Krita animations.
  • A built-in storyboard editor is proposed that allows you to create a series of images that preview the composition of future scenes, showing the location of important characters and objects, and their sequence according to the plot.
  • Added function to record video with drawing session in Krita.
  • The smoothness of gradients and the ability to preserve gradients in the Wide Gamut color space have been improved.
  • Gradient smoothing has been implemented for 8-bit per channel images using dithering.
  • Reworked gradient editing interface.
  • Added a new 2-point perspective wizard.
  • Added support for the AVIF image format.
  • A new plugin has been added to support the WebP format based on the libwebp library.
  • Improved support for Tiff and Heif formats.
  • Provided the ability to resize images on export.
  • A new KRZ format has been implemented, which is a version of KRA optimized for archiving (with compression and without preview).

Finally if you want to know more about it About this new version, you can check the details in the official announcement the following link.

Download and installation

Self-contained images in AppImage format for Linux, experimental APK packages for ChromeOS and Android, as well as binaries for macOS and Windows, are ready for installation.

In order to install this new version of Krita, all we have to do is download the following file and give execution permissions to install it.

sudo chmod + x krita-5.0.0-x86_64.appimage ./krita-5.0.0-x86_64.appimage

And with that we have Krita installed in our system.


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