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Krita is among the best free graphic design software available, offering a wide range of tools
and features. This program has a painter-friendly interface, and tools are easily accessible.
Additionally, Krita allows digital artists to customise and arrange the elements of the workspace
in a flexible manner, much like connecting Lego blocks.
FEATURES OF KRITA
Krita offers many innovative features to make drawing more fun and productive. It provides
various features, some of them are discussed below.
User Interface - An intuitive user interface in which the dockers and panels can be moved and
customised for your specific workflow. It also allows us to create our own shortcuts for
commonly used tools.
Pop-up Palette – It allows us to quickly
pick colours and brush by right-clicking Subject: Krita's Achievement
on the canvas.
Krita has been awarded with the "Best
Brush Stabilizers – It lets us add a Free Graphics Editor" prize by the
stabilizer to our brush to smoothen brush Technology of the Year Awards.
strokes if we have shaky hands while we
draw.
Brush Engines – It provides us with 9 unique brush engines. Each engine has a large number
of settings to customise our brush strokes.
Wrap-around mode - It allows us to create seamless textures and patterns. We can press the
‘W’ key while painting to toggle wrap-around mode.
Resource Manager – It lets us import brush and texture packs from other artists to expand
our tool set. This enables sharing of new brushes that artists create.
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Krita has a distraction-free canvas-only mode for enabling users to paint without bother.
Krita provides a variety of brush engines for sketching and painting.
DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING KRITA
Downloading Krita, a popular open-source digital painting software, involves a few simple steps.
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