cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44944279

Krita 5.3/6.0 is the result of many years of work by the Krita developers. Some features have been rewritten from the ground up, others make their first appearance.

Enjoy the completely new text feature: on canvas editing, full opentype support, text flowing into shapes. It is now easier than ever to create vector-based panels for comic pages. Tools got extended: for instance, the fill tool now can close gaps. The liquify mode of the transform tool is much faster. There are new filters: a propagate colors filter and a reset transparent filter. Support for HDR painting has been improved. The recorder docker can now work in real time. There is improved support for file formats, like support for text objects in PSD files. And much, much, much more!

Depending which version of Qt and KDE Frameworks you build, the same source will result in one of the other. Both versions are almost functionally identical, with 6.0.0 having more Wayland functionality. But note that since Krita 6 is still considered rather experimental.

Now, what’s in it? The answer is a lot! Check out the full release notes for all the detail, but here’s short list of highlights:

• The new resource system that we have worked on for five years\
• Gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients\
• Performance improvements, thanks to the LittleCMS fastfloat plugin\
• The all-new MyPaint brush engine\
• A completely rewritten color smudge brush engine\
• A redesigned animation timeline docker\
• Clone frames for animation\
• Updated animation curves docker\
• Transform mask animation\
• The new storyboarding feature\
• Refreshed icons and UI polish\
• Support for HEIF, AVIF, WebP file formats\
• Improved TIFF support\
• A new painting recorder\
• A new 2-point perspective assistant and a limit area feature for assistants\
• In-stack transform tool preview\
• Paste into a layer instead of pasting the clip as a new layer
• G’Mic for macOS

And a host of smaller improvements, smaller features and lots of performance improvements!-