krita — Krita is a free and open-source cross-platform digital painting application designed for professional artists, including illustrators, concept artists, and comic book creators.

Krita is a free and open-source cross-platform digital painting application designed for professional artists, including illustrators, concept artists, and comic book creators.

About this project

Krita is a professional digital painting application built on the KDE and Qt frameworks. It provides an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch and is widely used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters, and professionals in the digital VFX industry. The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3. It maintains a comprehensive user manual and developer documentation for building the software from source. The development process includes continuous integration (CI) pipelines for master and stable branches, with nightly builds available for both unstable and stable versions.