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Yesterday, Krita 4.1.3 was released with several improvements in the Instant Preview mode, bezier curve tools, and Comics Project manager, along with many bug fixes. Krita is a free and open source raster graphics editor, designed mainly for digital painting and animation purposes.

Round corners for the rectangle tool

A new feature has been added for round corners for the rectangle tool. Whether you’re working on a pixel or a vector layer, you can set round corners for the resulting shape. In the previous versions, you could, of course, already round vector rectangles by editing the shape, but this tool makes it easier.

New welcome screen

This version comes with a new welcome screen, which provides some handy links, a list of recently used files, a link to create or open a file, and a hint that you can also drag and drop images in the empty window to open them.

Improved Instant Preview mode

Instant Preview works by computing a scaled-down version of the image and displaying that. In the previous versions, with some brushes, this mode would cause a little delay at the end of a stroke, or some flickering on the canvas. This is fixed in Krate 4.1.3 to give users a  smoother painting experience.

Improved working with selections

Krita’s selections can be referred to as vectors or as a pixel mask. If you’re working on a vector selection, using the figure tools such as rectangle or ellipse will now add a vector to the selection, instead of rasterizing the vector selection.

Improved bezier curve tools

The bezier curve tools now comes with an auto-smoothing option. If you select auto-smoothing, the created curve will be not a polygon, but a smooth curve with the type of all the points set to “smooth”.

Comics Project manager

The Comics Project manager, a Python plugin has seen a ton of improvements, especially when it comes to generating standard-compliant epub and acbf files. Some these improvements are:

  • Improved navigation to generated epubs.
  • Ensure generated EPUBs pass EPUB check validation.
  • Several issues with the EPUB metadata export is fixed.
  • Make the generated EPUB 3 files pre-paginated. This will allow comics to be rendered as part of a spread which should have a nice result.
  • ComicBookInfo and ComicRack generators are updated

Bug fixes

This version comes with various bug fixes, some of which are listed here:

  • A shortcut for the threshold filter is added
  • Restore the shortcut for the invert filters.
  • Hardcoded brush size limit for the Quick Brush is removed
  • Fix rotation direction when the transformed piece is mirrored
  • Stamp brush preview now scales correctly
  • Automatically avoid conflicts between color labels and system colors
  • The modified() getter to the Document class is added
  • The resetCache() Python API to FileLayer is added

Read the full announcement on Krita’s official website.

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