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TECHIPEDIA (KRITA)







                                     Hello Children, today we will learn about a new
                                     software Krita. It is used for image creation and
                                     image manipulation.



            Krita is an open-source program used for digital painting and 2d animation also known as a

            raster graphics  editor.  It can run on different  operating  systems  such as Microsoft  Windows,
            MacOS, Linux, Chrome OS, and Android. It offers high quality of digital printing as well as raster
            graphics editing.

            MANIPULATING THE KRITA

            Let’s know all the shortcuts we need to know to draw and move around the Krita.



                  Function                                       How to do it?



                                    Hold down the Spacebar key to turn your cursor into a hand. Now drag
                 Panning
                                    your pen around to move the Krita left, right, up, or down.

                                    Hold down Spacebar + Ctrl to turn your cursor into a magnifying glass.
                 Zooming in/out     Now drag your pen up and down to zoom your Krita in and out. You can
                                    press 1 to reset your canvas back to 100%.

                                    Hold down the Ctrl key to turn your cursor into an eye dropper. Now tap
                 Colour Selecting   the pen on the Krita, the colour that is underneath will be picked up for
                                    you to use.

                                    Activate the Freehand Brush from the Toolbar. Now hold down Shift +
             Changing brush         drag your pen left or right, your brush size will adjust until you lift your

             size
                                    pen.


            SELECTION TOOL

            Selection tools are used to select those areas of an image that we wish to modify.


            Rectangular Selection Tool

            Rectangular Selection tool makes a rectangular selection. To use the Rectangular Selection tool,
            follow the given steps:



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