In years between 20, Krita was developed as a generic image manipulation software like Photoshop and GIMP. The first public version of Krita was released with KOffice 1.4 in 2004. To avoid existing trademarks on the market, the project underwent numerous name changes: KImageShop, Krayon, until it was finally settled with 'Krita' in 2002. In 1999, Matthias Elter proposed the idea of building the software using CORBA around ImageMagick. The idea of building a Qt-based image editor was later passed to KImage, maintained by Michael Koch, as a part of KOffice suite. History The Krita team in 2014Įarly development of the project can be tracked back to 1998 when Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE, showcased a Qt GUI hack for GIMP at Linux Kongress. It follows the 'K' prefix like everything else in the KDE suite.

The project's name 'Krita' is primarily inspired by the Swedish words krita, meaning ' crayon' (or chalk), and rita which means 'to draw'. The software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management, vector artwork support, and switchable customisation profiles. Krita ( / ˈ k r iː t ə/ KREE-tə) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation.

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