Krita 2.9 Is Now In Beta With Many Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 14 December 2014 at 09:13 AM EST. 9 Comments
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KDE's Krita graphics editing / digital painting program is now in beta for its upcoming v2.9 series.

Krita 2.9 Beta 1 marks the end of feature development with now the focus on being stability ahead of the official Krita 2.9 release.

Among the features for Krita 2.9 are support for opening more than one image in a single window, support for selecting multiple layers at a time, new cursor options, improved gradient editing, support for creating palette files inside Krita, selection-shape based gradient support, a non-destructive transformation mask was added, improvements for anti-aliasing of thin lines, the transform tool has been extended, there's a new color selector, and there's a whole lot of other exciting changes for open-source graphics artists.

More details on Krita 2.9 Beta 1 via Krita.org.
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