Blogs: Krita Sketch is - Colourful - Inspiring - Mobile (Calligra)

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Just under two years ago, i started working at this little company called KO GmbH, a small outfit based in Magdeburg, Germany, but which as many other KDE related companies is spread out through the world, primarily Europe. The company was originally set up so work could be done on what is now Calligra, KDE's powerful and sleek office suite.

One of the applications in this suite is the impressive painting tool Krita, and recently KO found a sponsor which has asked to remain anonymous for now, and who had taken an interest and decided that Krita needed some more exposure.

They wondered whether Krita would perhaps be useful as a base for a touch based painting application, and as Qt and KDE is of course extremely modular, for us as coders, that would mostly mean creating a new shell around the painting tools and the various models inside Krita, so we were happy to be able to tell them that yes, Krita would be quite suitable for such a project.

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Imagine drawing anywhere with your tablet. It's now possible! KDE and KO GmbH have released Krita Sketch, the first tablet and ultrabook version of Krita, the award-winning digital painting application. Optimized for touch screens and developed with a QML interface, Krita Sketch provides everything needed to create artwork from beginning to end.

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Looks like Krita may be used by some Special Effects "heavy hitters"
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Written by  Boudewijn Rempt - Tuesday, 26 March 2013

The London Expedition

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Next day, Inge, as a representative of KO GmbH, started working on prices and support offerings, while Boudewijn started hacking on the file-based layers feature.

In the afternoon, Gavin Graham from Double Negative hosted a meeting in the Double Negative offices. He is a head of 3D at Double Negative. It was an awesome experience to present Krita to him and a room full of artists from different departments -- matte painters, texture painters, concept artists.

David gave live demos on a big screen of the features these people were asking for -- and sure, there were some wishes, like better cloning/healing, improved masking (which Dmitry Kazakov, sponsored by the Krita Foundation is already working on!), but it was great to see how well Krita already supports the needs of the VFX industry!

A great meeting was followed by an impressive tour of the Double Negative offices, room after darkened room full of people totally focused on the next blockbuster movi

Full blog

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Some movies Double Negative are (have been) involved with

Currently in Production

    Thor: The Dark World
    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Fast & Furious 6
    Cuban Fury
    World’s End
    Jupiter Ascending
    Godzilla

2013

    Man of Steel
    Rush
    Captain Phillips

2012

    Battleship
    Skyfall
    Bourne Legacy
    Total Recall
    Dark Knight Rises
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    The Pirates! Band Of Misfits

2011

    John Carter
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    Captain America: The First Avenger

2010

    Attack The Block
    Paul
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Inception
    Iron Man 2
    Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
    The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    Tree Of Life

2009

    Green Zone
    The Wolf Man
    Sherlock Holmes
    2012
    The Boat that Rocked
    Fast & Furious
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Angels and Demons
    Hippie Hippie Shake

http://www.dneg.com/projects/projects_list.html

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May  2013

Spring is in the air, and with spring comes both the run-up to the release of Krita 2.7 and the Google Summer of Code. Last week, a bit delayed by the beautiful Swedish spring weather Cyrille Berger branched Krita to get ready for the next release, which will likely be early June.  Enrico Guarnieri made a beautiful splash screen:

Krita 2.7 will be an awesome release with a host of cool new features.

Sahil Nagpal has added the ability to apply curves to the alpha channel to the curves filter. His first in-depth contribution to Krita and it works like a charm!

Check out Mifth's video on Vimeo

Krita 2.7 Alpha Curve(dev) on Vimeo

Lukas Tvrdy has added support for creating seamless textures to Krita. Check out his blog to read all about it, if the embedded video doesn't work for you:

In the meantime, Lukas Tvrdy is working on integrating g'mic  into Krita -- in one fell swoop expanding Krita's filter capabilities enormously.

Check out David Revoy's Pencil to digital painting tutorial on moving from paper sketches to digital illustration for an example!

Another fun and useful feature, especially for comics artists: file-backed layers. This is simply an external image file that you can embed in your layer stack as a read-only layer and that will update when the external image is changed. It can be scaled to the image resolution automatically. This is really useful when working on comics: the ink layer tends to be 600dpi while the color layer is 300 dpi.

In the meantime, sponsored by the Krita Development Fund (please consider subscribing!), Dmitry Kazakov has been improving the speed of painting on HDR images, fixed bugs in the filter brush, curves filter, color to alpha filter, histogram generation, generated layers, canvas centering after crop and -- most awesomely! -- some tablet issues when working with a dual monitor/cintiq setup! (Actually, a workaround for a Qt bug.)

For animators, the layer group switcher plugin is of interest. If you have a bunch of groups representing frames, you can now move from one frame to another with a simple keypress. Only the current group will be visible then.

http://krita.org/

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dmitryK - May 8, 2013

Upcoming Krita 2.7: Updated Drag & Drop and Clipboard functionality

Recently we spent some time on polishing the Drag & Drop and Copy & Paste functionality in Krita. It turned out that these simple things are very important for users, since they allow integrate Krita into user's workflow better. It's a pity we were not able to pay much attention to them for some time, so as time passed they became a bit buggy. Now the bugs are gone and I can say for sure that there is no bugs in these systems! (at least bugzilla and me don't know any

Here is a short list of capabilities you can use to integrate Krita into your workflow (will be publicly available starting from Krita 2.7 Beta 2):

    Clipboard. Now the pasted image always gets centered right. And thank to the patch by our new contributor Sahil Nagpal the Custom Image dialog doesn't go insane when finds something in the Clipboard

    Drag-and-Drop of Image-objects. You can drop any image (from Gimp or Chromium) to Krita canvas and it will be centered in the image. If you want it to be centered around the mouse position, just press Shift key while dragging. You can also drop an image directly into the Layers docker, which will allow you to choose the position of a newly created layer in the stack.

    Drag-and-Drop of a URL. If you drop an image from Firefox (yes, Firefox doesn't wrap images into image objects) or from Dolphin, it will also be added to your image as a layer.

    Drag-and-Drop of many images at once. Not many people know about this feature, but Krita will also handle this case =)

    And of course, Drag-and-Drop of layers between different instances of Krita app. This feature was a tough one because of some bug in Qt's QTreeView implementation of D&D. It was always generating some spurious MouseMove events which were canceling the incoming drop. But now this finally works.

http://dimula73.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/upcoming-krita-27-updated-drag-drop-and.html