sahwar / krita

Krita is a free digital painting application. Digital Painting, Creative Freedom!

Krita is a free and open source digital painting application. It is for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry.

If you are reading this on Github, be aware that this is just a mirror. Our real code repository is provided by KDE: https://phabricator.kde.org/source/krita/

User Manual

https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual.html

Development Notes and Build Instructions

If you're building on Windows or OSX you'll need to build some third-party dependencies first. You should look at the README in the 3rdparty folder for directions.

If you're building on Linux, please follow David Revoy's Cat Guide: http://www.davidrevoy.com/article193/guide-building-krita-on-linux-for-cats

Other developer guides, notes and wiki:

https://community.kde.org/Krita

Apidox:

https://api.kde.org/extragear-api/graphics-apidocs/krita/html/index.html

Bugs and Wishes

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=1315444&product=krita&query_format=advanced

Discussion Forum

http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=136

IRC channel

Most of the developers hang out here. If you are interested in helping with the project this is a great place to start. Many of the developers based in Europe so they may be offline depending on when you join.

irc.freenode.net, #krita

Project Website

http://www.krita.org

License

Krita as a whole is licensed under the GNU Public License, Version 3. Individual files may have a different, but compatible license.