Software Update: Krita 3.0.1

Version 3.0.1 of Krita has been released. Krita is a program for editing and creating digital drawings, and can handle both bitmap and vector graphics. The program is part of Calligra Suite and is developed by the KDE team, but also works fine under Gnome or XFCE. In addition, there are downloads for Windows and macOS.

In version 3.0, animation support has been integrated into the Krita core, there is instant preview and larger brushes and canvases can be used. Furthermore, the latest version of Qt is used. Many of the new features in this release have been funded with the Kickstarter campaign of 2015. The missing stretch goals will appear in version 3.1. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Krita 3.0.1: new features and bug fixes
Krita 3.0.1 is the first release after Krita 3.0. With the new release schedule we’re trying to release every six weeks, with a combination of new features and bug fixes. This release already contains the first results of the 2016 Google Summer of Code projects, as well as kickstarter-funded features, the work of new contributors Eugene Ingerman, Nishant Rodrigues, Miroslav Talasek and Laurent Jospin and the work from students mentored by Dmitry: Grigory Tantsev and Alexey Kapustin.

Tweak Brush settings in the pop-up palette
Tweak your brush without having to go into the brush editor. Each brush engine has its own settings to tweak. Use the small arrow icon to toggle this on and off. You can even configure which properties are shown. Read the documentation for more information.

Soft Proofing
See how your artwork will look like when converting to CMYK. There is an additional “out of gamut” display to show you what color data will be getting lost. The first result of Wolthera’s Google Summer of Code 2016 work! Read the documentation

Improved Mirror Tools
Additional options for the mirror tools. Lock the position so you don’t accidentally move it. Hide the line so it doesn’t get in the way while painting. Move to center if you accidentally move it while painting. See documentation

Threshold and Wavelet Decompose Added
Added a Threshold filter and a Wavelet Decompose plugin. The wavelet decompose plugin was created by Miroslav Talasek.

Quick Flip and Rotate buttons
Quickly flip or rotate your layers and selections with the free transform tool. No more -100% width transformations. Buttons exist for flipping vertical or horizontal, rotating clock wise or counter clock wise rotate.

Improved Dockers
We moved the Histogram area from the layers menu into its own Histogram docker so it always can stay on the screen. Greatly improved the visual quality of the overview docker so it looks better. The channels docker now shows thumbnails as well. This work was done by Eugene Ingerman. Thanks!

Other New or Improved Features

• Smarter input boxes that can accept simple maths! Unit conversion is still coming! This feature was created by Laurent Jospin.
• Per-stroke fuzziness sensor, called “Fuzzy: Stroke”, perfect for all those grassblades that need to be subtly different.
• Added “Ratio” property to the brush editor. This allows you to map the brush width and height aspect ratio to your pen. This feature was created by Nishant Rodriguez
• Gradient Maps can now be added as filter layers.
• New option to convert a group into an animated layer
• Added showing coordinates when using the Move Tool. Enable this feature from the tool options.
• Added Japanese animation template (by Saisho Kazuki)
• Snap free transform tool with the Shift key
• Improved Pixel 1 Preset
• Improved default onion skin settings to make it easier to use
• Use relative zooming so you zoom based off your cursor instead of the center of the screen
• Add ability to enter groups with PgUp/PgDown shortcuts
• Gray out sliders for disabled onion skin columns
• Added Breeze color themes
• re-organized the layers menu and layer context-click menu so they take up less space
• Improved verb for “paste to simple source” dialog. It is now called “Missing Color Profile”. Added option to remember your selection.
• Visibility of status bar is now saved
• Show previous color in Advanced Colors Selector docker
• Retired the support for the little-used OpenJPEG export format. (Note: this has nothing to do with JPEG support!)
• There is an optional button available for the toolbars to switch pressure sensitivity off and on (patch by Grigory Tantsevov)

Fixes

• Fix sharp corners when drawing circles with the stabilizer on Windows
• Fix drag & drop slow down with layers
• Added Full screen functionality back
• Fix crash when dragging and dropping transform mask
• Fix crashes with some tablet manufacturers when you try to paint
• Fix crash when duplicating a file layer
• Fix double dots in the file name when saving
• Fix crash when loading multi layer EXR files
• Fix crash with saving layer group
• Fix: Switch off ‘canvas only mode’ before closing the main window. It made restarting krita get in an odd state.
• Fix crash when moving a hidden layer with the arrow keys
• Fix Clone tool crash when when using Ctrl + left mouse button
• Fix Onion skin build up issue when changing frames
• OSX: fixed some touchpad issues
• OSX: fix brush freeze with Wacom after lifting stylus from canvas
• OSX: Fixed 100% opacity blobs at the start of a line
• Fix some part of the application not changing to the appropriate language
• Fix crash when editing a macro that contains a filter layer
• Fix memory issue when closing and opening new images
• 3_texture brush tip has been fixed to use alpha
• Fix assistants so previews can be hidden and shown
• When using the deform transform tool, moving now takes the rotation of the canvas into account
• Fix saving templates
• Fix loading images with uppercase suffix
• Fix HSL/HSV adjustment filter with Colorize displaying wrong hue value
• Fix to make feather selection work again (thanks Spencer Brown)
• Some display issues (black screens) when using assistants on NVida GPU’s have been fixed
• Fix brush preset layout after changing tags and hiding scrollbars
• Fix a crash when the resource selector tries to display a deleted resource
• Fix using the threshold filter as a mask and the threshold filter preview for colorspaces other than 8 bits RGBA
• Fix initializing tool options when Krita starts
• Change range for inner and outer glow layer styles to 1 to 100
• Update the default workspace set
• When saving pixels outside of the layer will be cropped
• Fix incorrect offset when loading first animation frame
• Fix exporting animations to the CSV format
• Brush composite action has name in the toolbar config now
• Uncheck the PNG profile embedding option by default.
• Disable the system monitor check if colord doesn’t give us devices
• Make Nearest Neighbor filtering mode work properly
• Add the decoration back for the horizontal and vertical mirror tools
• Don’t put 100% pressure blobs at the start of some lines
• Don’t allow painters remove the automatically generated gradients: They are special!
• Brush preset tags load again on Windows and OSX