The fantastic free software Krita has already reached its version 3.0 and comes with interesting news, one of them will be very useful to designers who want to work with this software, since it includes support for animation. Krita 3.0 It has been released by the development team recently and with this new implementation it intends to establish itself more than ever as the software for artistic creation and digital painting.
You should already know that Krita was born in the bosom of KDE, is now consolidated as an independent project within the KDE development community, with its own repository or Wiki, but it is still a project that emerged as a complement to the KDE desktop environments (now Plasma), like many other tools and that was integrated as part of the Calligra office suite (formerly KOffice), which we have talked about and the one that deserves more mention next to LibreOffice, since for me they are two of the great ...
Now Krita 3.0 adds new functionalities, with a renewed interface that has been ported to Qt5 and with animation support as we have said. In fact, it is this last feature that attracts the most attention, integrating a lot of tools that we can find in the new dockers and that will allow us to make animations with our images, frame by frame, in addition to the import / export of sequences, and of course the playback in real time.
Krita 3.0 wanted out-speed Adobe PhotoShop once again when working with large canvases. That's why it adds new capabilities to work with large images in a fluid way, such as instant preview. On the subject of layers, a lot of work has been put into facilitating multi-selection or changing their properties together. It includes support for GIMP images, tweaks in some tools to improve them, corrected bgus, etc.