Krita
Looking back at 2021, looking forward at 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineA journey across the multiverse of free/libre tools for creative professionals
Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineVCV Rack 2 modular synth is out after 2 years in passionate development
Halloween art 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineSpooky and fun!
Weekly-ish recap — 31 October 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineApple joins Blender Dev Fund, Ardour gets clip launching as part of future live looping features
Weekly-ish recap — 6 October 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineSynths, synths, synths! Oh, and a massive FrreeCAD news update for architects
Weekly-ish recap — 7 September 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlenderBIM project is celebrating 2 years, Krita 5 development is wrapping up
Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew Inkscape, Penpot, BlenderBIM and Ardour releases, development fund for Krita, Audacity shenanigans
Week recap — 1 February 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of BlenderBIM, Shotcut, Surge and liquidsfz, new features in GIMP, darktable, Krita, Blender, ArmorPaint, Olive
Week recap — 25 January 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of Zrythm and Guitarix, new features in Krita, darktable, Siril, Blender
This is 2021: what's coming in free/libre software
by Alexandre ProkoudineA look across the full spectrum of digital content creation software
Week recap — 9 December 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of Krita and Shotcut, new features in Siril, Blender, Olive
Week recap — 1 December 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew major releases of Blender, Font Manager, DrumGizmo, amSynth
Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of GIMP, Scribus, FontForge, Synfig, Tahoma2D, LibreDWG, Giada, Ardour
Week recap — 3 November 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineHighlights: Blender Conference was online this year, new releases of BlenderBIM, Pitivi, Shotcut, Qtractor, new free/libre VST3 plugins for Linux, new features in Inkscape, Krita, FreeCAD, Dust3D.
Week recap — 23 October 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineSo this is going to be an update that covers both recent and not so recent events.
Week recap — 18 August 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
Week recap — 21 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
Week recap — 13 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineFirst virtual reality code lands to Blender
Week recap — 9 March 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineHalf the free non-linear video editors got updates
Week recap — 2 March 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor releases by Blender, MyPaint, GIMP, and MusE teams, coding sprint by Krita devs, first release candidate of Dust3D v1.0, new release of Shotcut, major changes in Olive and enve.
Week recap — 10 February 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of RawTherapee, Cinelerra, and OpenShot available, the Krita team is fixing unit tests, there are even more UX fixes in GIMP, there have been major Godot news, the enve developer is unstoppable!
Week recap — 3 February 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of ART, Synfig, and OpenToonz, massive improvements in GIMP, Siril, Blender, enve, and Olive, new beta of Shotcut, a great deal of bugfixing in Krita for upcoming v4.3.0.
Week recap — 3 December 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew version of FluidSynth reads DLS samples and has new reverb engine
Week recap — 27 November 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita gets magnetic lasso
The art of Philipp Urlich
by Alexandre ProkoudineThe art of Philipp Urlich: immersive landscapes and GauGAN in digital painting
Week recap — 24 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape 1.0 beta is out with native macOS support
Week recap — 10 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display
Week recap — 3 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita is getting support for PaintTool SAI files
Week recap — 28 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineCUPS switches to Apache 2.0 license with GPL exception
Week recap — 19 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of G'MIC, DJV, and Shotcut video editor
Podcast ep. 001 - Interview with Krita developers
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita team on funding the development and bringing in new contributors
Week recap — 12 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineAmazing sculpting tools are coming to Blender 2.81
Week recap — 4 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineWeek highlights: major changes in GIMP, exciting new features in Krita, new releases of Luminance HDR, Exiv2, Scribus, and FontForge, gazillion of news in the Blender department, new ArmorPaint releases.
Week recap — 15 May 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releses of AzPainter and RawTherapee are out.
Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP 2.10.10 released, Spring animated movie by Blender Studio hs been released
Weekly-ish recap — 19 March 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineTechnical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out
Weekly-ish recap — 11 March 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineTechnical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out
Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector
Week recap — 18 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGEGL is getting its own node compositing tool
Week recap — 4 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineIntel publishes open source projects for AV1 encoding and image denoising
Week recap — 14 January 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineMyPaint gets better smudging and initial filmic support.
Winter break recap — 8 January 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineMuseScore 3.0 is out, Blender turns 25 years old.
Week recap — 23 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineManuel Bastioni Lab add-on for Blender gets a community fork
Week recap — 16 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer
The art of Ngan Pham
by Alexandre ProkoudineToday we are talking to Ngan Pham, a young artist residing in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Ngan extensively uses Krita as a freelance concept artist and illustrator.
Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project
Week recap — 2 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineHISE 2.0.0 lands to let anyone create sample-based virtual instruments
Week recap — 25 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineStalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention
The art of Yaroslav Chyzhevskyi
by Alexandre ProkoudineYaroslav likes using it all: both Krita, MyPaint, and GIMP.
Week recap — 18 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape starts exploring multithreaded canvas rendering
The Art of Martin Trokenheim
by Alexandre ProkoudineToday, we are talking to Martin Trokenheim, an illustrator from Sweden. Martin worked as a professional illustrator, abandoned and then rediscovered drawing, and started rocking with MyPaint and then with Krita.
Week recap — 11 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineArmorPaint got unlimited undo support and better FBX importer
Week recap — 4 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew version of QGIS released with 3D and animation features
The art of Sylvia Ritter
by Alexandre ProkoudineSylvia Ritter made an impressive amount of beautiful paintings with Krita!
Week recap — 21 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita fundraiser is now successfully completed
Week recap — 14 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineMicrosoft is granting access to 60,000+ patents including type design ones
Week recap — 7 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew major releases of Valentina and G’MIC are available
Week recap — 30 September 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of Audacity, Krita and Pencil2D, new Blender add-ons, PipeWire project is getting serious about pro audio workflows.
The Art of Adrian dela Cerna
by Alexandre ProkoudineToday, we talk to Adrian dela Cerna, an artist from USA who has been using Krita quite a lot for the past few years.
Week recap — 22 September 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita team launches a new fundraiser
2018 in perspective
by Alexandre ProkoudineLet's see what this year is bringing us
Krita to kickstart new text and vector tools
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita Foundation announced their third Kickstarter project to fund development of new text and vector tools
Book Review: Digital Painting with Krita 2.9
by Alexandre ProkoudineNewly published book by Scott Petrovic will get you started with the free/libre painting program in no time
The complete story of Paris-8 university going for Krita, Blender, Natron
by Alexandre ProkoudineIn an exclusive in-depth interview, François Grassard talks about integration of Krita, Blender, Natron into the program of Paris-8 university.
Playkot's SuperCity game graphics done with Blender, Krita, GIMP
by Alexandre ProkoudineIs it feasible to create graphics for a really popular social network game with free software? Two years and 4,000,000 users later the answer seems obvious.
Free meets affordable — Krita gets support for Huion graphic tablets
by Alexandre ProkoudineRecently, Huion sent one of their H610 graphic tablets to the Krita team to make sure it's supported, but is there more to it than meets the eye?
MyPaint gets SAI brushes, Krita goes for Alchemy's pull shapes
by Alexandre ProkoudineCan you feel it in the air? There seems to be an urge to port useful features from less actively into more actively developed software projects
What free software projects will be sponsored by Google this summer?
by Alexandre ProkoudineLast night, Google started publishing the list of mentoring organizations accepted to the Summer of Code 2013 program
Krita 2.6 released, what's coming in the next version?
by Alexandre ProkoudineThe KDE project announced release of Calligra Suite 2.6, a set of free office, graphics and productivity applications. The crown jewel of the release is Krita, an image editor with advanced painting features.
Interview with Krita developers, 2008
by Alexandre ProkoudineHere is the first post-LGM2008 interview. This time it were developers of Krita, the KOffice almighty graphics editor, who dared to cross journalism firing line.