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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 color models, except indexed color models, like RGB, CMYK, Grayscale,
               YCbCr, 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
                      Menu bar






                      Toolbox
                                                                 Work Area                     Panels









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