Renamed to KImageShop, this was the start of Krita.

Not being in a position to work together, people within the KDE project decided to start their own image editor application development focused on an application that was part of the KOffice suite, called KImage, by Michael Koch. His patch was never published, but did cause problems with the GIMP community at the time. Matthias wanted to show the ease with which it was possible to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, and the application he chose to demo it with was GIMP. The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrich’s at the 1998 Linux Kongress. When you have mastered those, you can look into the dedicated introduction pages for functionality in the User Manual, read through the overarching concepts behind (digital) painting in the General Concepts section, or just search the Reference Manual for what a specific button does.The name “Krita” comes from Swedish, and means “to draw” or “chalk” and was taken after the names “KImageShop” and “Krayon” gave problems.

If you are new to digital art, just start with Installation, which deals with installing Krita, and continue on to Starting Krita, which helps with making a new document and saving it, Basic Concepts, in which we’ll try to quickly cover the big categories of Krita’s functionality, and finally, Navigation, which helps you find basic usage help, such as panning, zooming and rotating. If Selections are active, then that area is cut in all the layers selected in the layer docker and saved into the clipboard. If you are familiar with digital painting, we recommend checking out the Introduction Coming From Other Software category, which contains guides that will help you get familiar with Krita by comparing its functions to other software. If shapes are selected, then they are cut from the image and saved into the clipboard. Welcome to the Krita Manual! In this section, we’ll try to get you up to speed.

For windows download Krita 5.2.2