Developers of the powerful, free, open source Krita digital painting software have announced the release of Krita 4.0 pre-alpha.
The Krita app is a graphics editor that uses the Qt 5 and the KDE 5 framework. Krita is designed to be a digital painting application.
It has been affected to some extent by software such as Corel Painter and SAI. The application packs along with some basic features some different features from most of its applications, including the ability to work with both bitmap and vector illustrations.
Application developers are also trying to simplify user interaction and focus on features that are more relevant to painting and drawing.
Krita is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License (version 2). It was originally released as part of KOffice version 1.4.0 on June 21, 2005.
The program can run on Windows environments (also available in the Windows Store), Linux, Mac OSX and for two X64 or X86 architectures.
Caution: it is a pre-alpha version, that is, not at all stable. It can even ruin your images when saving!
No installer.
- Portable 64 bits Windows: Criteria-4.0.0-prealpha.2c.zip
- Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)
Linux Download
- 64 bits Linux: Criteria-4.0.0-pre-alpha-x86_64.appimage
(right-click download.)
OSX Download
- OSX disk image: Criteria-4.0.0-prealpha.2b.dmg
Note: The gmic-qt and pdf plugins are not available on OSX.
Krita 4.0 Source code
- Source code: Criteria-4.0.0-prealpha.2.tar.gz
md5sums
For all downloads: