After a successful 2015 Kickstarter campaign named ‘Krita: free paint app – let’s make it faster than Photoshop!’, Krita 3.0 is now officially released. As promised to backers there are performance increases, fast instant preview painting and a new animation toolset. Other key new features include onion skinning, real-time playback, caching that supports different frame rates (and for slower devices frame dropping during playback), and new options for working with and managing layers and UI refinements.
Mac OS X compatibility has been improved and version 3.1 will have full support. Version 3.1 will also have a new tool for quickly colouring comic-book style, improved swatch handling, a stacked brush, export to animated GIF, heads-up-display for quickly changing brush settings, a better colour selector, more layer types will be animatable and…
