First Beta for Krita 5.0 released | Krita
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Today, the Krita team releases the first beta for Krita 5.0. Krita 5.0 is a major release, with a lot of new features and a lot of changes. First some warnings: Krita 5 has a completely new resource system. Krita no longer loads all brushes, patterns, gradients and so on start-up, but caches the information […]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/77652

Now, what’s in it? The answer is a lot! Check out the full release notes for all the detail, but here’s short list of highlights:

  • The new resource system that we have worked on for five years\
  • Gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients\
  • Performance improvements, thanks to the LittleCMS fastfloat plugin\
  • The all-new MyPaint brush engine\
  • A completely rewritten color smudge brush engine\
  • A redesigned animation timeline docker\
  • Clone frames for animation\
  • Updated animation curves docker\
  • Transform mask animation\
  • The new storyboarding feature\
  • Refreshed icons and UI polish\
  • Support for HEIF, AVIF, WebP file formats\
  • Improved TIFF support\
  • A new painting recorder\
  • A new 2-point perspective assistant and a limit area feature for assistants\
  • In-stack transform tool preview\
  • Paste into a layer instead of pasting the clip as a new layer
  • G’Mic for macOS

And a host of smaller improvements, smaller features and lots of performance improvements!-