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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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