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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 5.0.x which

                  was released in December 2021. You can download Krita from the following link:
                  https://krita.org/en/

                      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  colour  models,  except  indexed  colour  models,  like  RGB,  CMYK,

                     Grayscale, 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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