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Create new images from scratch or from the clipboard. There are many colorspaces to choose from, from 8 bits per channel to 32bits, from rgb to lab, from cmyk to real painterly colorspaces.

A clear and uncluttered interface. Tools, layers, colors and options all neatly laid out. The top half of the toolbar is for the vector tools, the bottom half for the raster and selection tools.

Note the toolbar on top: here you can select one of the brush types Krita provides, from pixel brush to sumi-e simulation.

You can finetune the settings by clicking on the stroke preview. This is only the beginning: in the future you will be able to save and load your own favourite settings.

Krita is integrated with the rest of KOffice, so you can add shapes to your document. For instance, editable, rich text or artistic text placed on a path. Or vector objects, or even charts or music. We don’t want to limit you!

Krita 2 includes many new types of layers and masks. It has always been possible to group layers, but the new clone mask allows you to show the content of a layer in another place in the layer stack. The shape layer contains the vector or text shapes. What used to be called “adjustment layer” is now called “filter layer”, but still applies a filter on all layers in a group. The generator layer fills a layer with a color, a pattern or anything else that is created by a generator. The masks are applied to a single layer: they can filter, mask out pixels or select pixels only on this layer. New is the global selection, which selects the pixels on the active layer, but stays around when you change layers.

Filter effects are previewed directly on your canvas. The filter gallery is extended and is now always available when you open a filter.

OpenRaster is a new file format documented by the Create Project meant to save your images for posterity and to make it easy to interchange images with other applications, such as MyPaint.

In 1.6 it was already possible to create selections using vector tools. In Krita 2.0, these selections remain editable as vectors.