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                 Krita— A Painting Program



                 Krita is a free and open-source painting program. It is mainly used for making digital paintings and
                 for creating 2D animations. It is very useful software for artists who like sketching and scribbling.

                 It is an affordable art tool for everyone that has support on most of the latest operating systems
                 like Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and Chrome OS. The latest version of Krita is 5.2.x which was
                 released in December 2023. You can download Krita from the following link:

                 https://krita.org/en/download/


                        FEATURES OF KRITA

                 Some of the important features of Krita are as follows:

                    It supports several types of file formats like BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, etc.
                    It supports various color models, except indexed color models, like RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, YCbCr,
                    etc.
                     It supports layers and masks.
                     It provides various types of tools like vector tools, raster tools, guidance tools, canvas tools and
                    selection tools.


                        GETTING STARTED WITH KRITA


                 After installing Krita, perform the following steps:
                 Step 1    Click on the Start button from the Taskbar. The Start menu appears.
                 Step 2    Scroll down for Krita and click on it. The Krita application window opens.
                 Step 3    Select the File  New option form the menu bar. The Create new document dialog
                           box appears.

                 Step 4    Click on Create button. A new document is created and opened in Krita application
                           window with the following components:




                                                                                                   Menu bar
                            Toolbar







                           Toolbox
                                                                      Work Area                     Panels










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