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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.




                      Tick ( ) if you know this.
                          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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