Improved gradients: creating and using gradients has also been improved for Krita 5.0, and it's really easy to do. Bear in mind that this doesn’t work with the Advanced Colour Wheel you need to have the Palette Docker open. This is especially good if you want to try out a few colour variations in quick succession. Krita now lets you drag a colour straight from the Docker to an element or layer. This is really intuitive, and much less fiddly than trying to rotate the shape afterwards using the Transform tools.ĭrag and drop colours: this one's a useful time-saver. When you’re using a create tool to make a shape like an ellipse or a rectangle, you can hold Ctrl-Alt to rotate the shape with the stylus as you’re drawing it. The grid can be really handy as it helps you visualise how perspective will affect different objects you’re drawing, as well as creating discrete units of distance you can use to check that everything’s in the right place.Ĭreate/rotate shapes: this is a small addition but it’s neat. You can edit the vanishing points, move the guidelines around, or limit the area that they affect – which is handy if you want to keep your perspective drawing to a certain area of the canvas (e.g. It allows you to create perspective guides by placing down perspective points and overlaying a grid onto your canvas, which you can then snap brushes to in order to make sure your lines are just right. The latest edition of Krita has a few useful new tools, so let’s take a look at some of the highlights:Ģ-point perspective assistant: this is a cool new feature that makes it easier to draw using perspective. You can also group layers, and easily copy them from one project to another.

“shading”, “lines”, “blue” or whatever else. You can filter your layers by name to quickly navigate to the one you want – e.g. It’s helpful without being intrusive.Īnd if you’re one for working with plenty of Layers, Krita offers a few good quality-of-life tools that make that easier. If you’re the type of person who often accidentally selects the wrong tool (hands up here), Krita has a knack for knowing it, and will pop up a little message explaining that you probably want, e.g. It’s the little things that make a difference. Unlike those programs, feeling your way around learning to use Krita is actually fun, and doesn’t feel like smashing your head against a brick wall. The main Toolbar sits on the left of the canvas, and you can add windows (Krita calls them “Dockers”) to the right-hand side when you want to pick colours, brushes, or whatever else. In terms of user-friendliness, I'd say Krita is a little less intimidating than Photoshop – though it doesn’t have Photoshop’s comprehensive guided tutorials – and it also makes more of an effort to be comprehensible than GIMP. The Krita interface is simple, effective and well laid out.

Krita paint program