Krita

Krita (formerly KImageshop and Krayon ) is the name of a free paint program for KDE. It was some time part of the Office suite KOffice since version 2.4 and is part of the Calligra Suite. Krita is designed primarily as a paint program, but is also capable image editing functions.

History

After attempts had failed to develop a Qt based KDE version of GIMP, hit Ettrich on May 24, 1999 to develop an image -editing program from scratch. The development went ahead for a while, then slept but one in October 1999. On August 23, 2000, then a programmer of the company thekompany.com reported on the mailing list to speak and stated that he was hired to KOffice, especially KImageshop to develop.

In January 2002, then the name had to be changed at the insistence of a lawyer - the project was then called Krayon. 2003 The development is slow until a new group of developers got together in October, which continued the development of the program under the name Krita ( Swedish for crayon ).

On 21 June 2005, the first version of Krita was published together with KOffice 1.4.

Special features of the program

Since version 1.5.0 Krita supports color spaces RGB ( 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit), LAB (16 bit), Grayscale (8 bit and 16 bit) and CMYK (8 bit and 16 bit). Also Krita supports the OpenEXR format natively and can be used for processing of HDR images in this format.

Krita has very good integration with KDE Plasma Workspaces, so it is possible, among other things, to import images directly using KSnapshot or Kooka.