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Krita: free paint app - let's €30,520
make it faster than
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Photoshop! €20,000 goal Pledge €15 or
more
 Amsterdam, Netherlands  Software 965
Support us with 15
euros and we'll send
backers
you a cool postcard
with Krita art! You will
also get a mention in
We made it! So you can now also donate using Krita 3.1's credits and
the opportunity to
paypal! vote for stretch goals.

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• https://krita.org/2015-kickstarter/ DELIVERY Anywhere
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Pledge €25 or
more

You will get a

postcard with Krita
art, a set of Krita
stickers to adorn your
environment, a nice,
laminated sheet
detailing Krita's
shortcuts, our love
and a much, much
better Krita! And your
name in Krita 3.1's
credits as well as the
opportunity to vote for
stretch goals!

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Krita is a FREE award-winning open source digital DELIVERY
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painting application. Dedicated to creating comics,
illustrations, concept art, matte paintings: all kinds of Anywhere
in the
2D image creation! world

198 backers
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Try Krita now and see how good it already is!

Pledge €50 or
• 32 bits Windows: more
http://files.kde.org/krita/windows/krita_x86_2.9.4.
3.msi This reward choice
gives you: our love, a
• 64 bits Windows: postcard, fame in the
http://files.kde.org/krita/windows/krita_x64_2.9.4. credits, a sheet of
3.msi stickers with Krita art,
the shortcut sheet, a
• OS X (Mavericks and up, really experimental and
great Krita 3.1, a
unstable): lovely Krita t-shirt,
http://files.kde.org/krita/osx/krita-2.9.4.3.dmg and the opportunity to
vote on stretch goals!
Linux builds are provided by your distribution and may
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lag behind a version or two. For Ubuntu, you can use DELIVERY Anywhere
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krita-testing from the Lime repository:
world

• https://launchpad.net/~dimula73/+archive/ubuntu/ 89 backers

krita

OpenSUSE users can the KDE:Extra repo:

Pledge €50 or
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/E more
xtra/
We've also got tote-
Thank You for Last Year! bags. Awesome,
stylish, roomy tote
bags with the Krita
logo. This reward
Last year, you supported us to create a dozen great choice gives you: our
new features for Krita - and we delivered! We just love, a postcard, fame
in the credits, a sheet
released Krita 2.9, the latest, greatest version of Krita of stickers with Krita
art, the shortcut
with hundreds of improvements. That wouldn't have sheet, a great Krita 3.1
and that tote bag! And
been possible without your support, as well as the you'll be able to vote
on stretch goals!
many volunteers that donated their time and energy!
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Krita is a community project through and through! And DELIVERY Anywhere
now it's the time to take the next step... Aug 2015 in the

world

15 backers

Pledge €75 or
more
ImagineFX likes Krita so much, they awarded it 5 out of 5
and Artists Choice! We're also working on
a brand-new Krita
training DVD. "Secrets
of Krita," by Timothee
Our Primary Goals for 2015 Giet. For €75 we'll
send you this DVD as
soon as it's ready, but
• Make Krita really fast on big canvases with big you also get our love,
brushes a postcard, fame in
• Make Krita an awesome 2D animation tool the credits, a vote for
the stretch goals, a
sheet of stickers with
We're making Krita to make it possible for artists all Krita art, the shortcut
sheet... Help make
over the world to create great art, to be as productive
Krita 3.1 as fast as
as possible. There's one big step we can take to possible!

achieve that goal: ESTIMATED SHIPS TO

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Make Krita as Fast as Photoshop world

26 backers
Achieve awesome performance, beating Photoshop at
its own game. Thanks to research by Dmitry, we've
figured it out and we know how to do it, but it's a BIG
job! Several months of dedicated coding, right inside
Pledge €75 or
Krita's core.
more

And that's where you come in - help us make this A mug adorned with
Kiki, for drinking
possible, let's push Krita to yet another height. Huge coffee, tea or keeping
your tablet styluses in.
posters, big illustrations, high-def film matte paintings. You also get our love,
Big brushes with a diameter over 3000 pixels will be a postcard, fame in
the credits, a vote for
possible! the stretch goals, a
sheet of stickers with
Krita art, the shortcut
Here's the prototype: sheet...

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in the
world

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Pledge €75 or
more

A fancy pencil case

with a Krita logo and a
smiling Kiki for taking
Animation your tablet stylus or
pencils with you
everywhere, in all
Over the past two years, we've been putting down the safety. You also get
our love, a postcard,
foundation for adding great animation capabilities to fame in the credits, a
vote for the stretch
Krita. With the performance improvements in place, we goals, a sheet of
will build a professional animation tool into Krita. stickers with Krita art,
the shortcut sheet...
Whether you're Warner Bros reviving Looney Tunes or
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making game sprites (or just having fun with gifs), you DELIVERY Anywhere
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in the
world
were stuck with vector tools if you wanted to use open 6 backers

source software.

Pledge €100 or
more

A usb stick (credit-

card style), with Krita
 PLAY
on it, the first three
training DVDs and
several brush packs!
A fancy pencil case
with a Krita logo and a
smiling Kiki for taking
your tablet stylus or
pencils with you
People keep telling us how much they love Krita's everywhere, But also
our love, a postcard,
brushes, and rightly so! Think of being able to use fame in the credits, a
vote for the stretch
those brushes to create the hand-drawn 2d animations goals, a sheet of
of your dreams. It's a big project! But it's going to be stickers with Krita art,
the shortcut sheet
fun. We just need to write the code! and, of course, the
satisfaction of having
helped make Krita 3.1
You'll be able to not just animate your drawings from awesome!

frame to frame, but set every layer or mask property on ESTIMATED SHIPS TO
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a timeline! Filter layers, transformation masks, fill Dec 2015
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layers, clones and transparency masks... Just imagine world

the possibilities! 49 backers

This will also hit Krita's core data structures, but we're
also going to have create a great timeline feature,
onion skinning and more!
Pledge €250 or
more

Help not just Krita get

better and better, but
help everyone get to
understand Krita
As usual, we'll be inviting all of you to test as we code! better! If you chose
this reward, Wolthera
Every week, we'll make builds for Linux, Windows (and will create a tutorial
on a topic of your
OSX, too, for a double dose of experimental).  choice! And as an
extra thank you, apart
from our love, a
Stretch goals postcard, fame in the
credits, a vote for the
stretch goals, a sheet
We need to do the big stuff! But there are a lot of great of stickers with Krita
art, and the shortcut
ideas floating around and we want to give you the sheet, we'll also have
an exclusive notebook
opportunity to make Krita better, better and better. printed with the Krita
Here are our stretch goals! There are 24 of them, neatly logo for you!

grouped. Every 1500 euros over the target will add a ESTIMATED SHIPS TO
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stretch goal... And at the end of the kickstarter, Dec 2015 in the

everyone who has supported us from the 15 euro world

reward can vote for their favourite stretch goals from

Reward no longer
the list!  available

3 backers
(And, of course, choosing a 1500 euro reward lets you
automatically add a stretch goal!)

Pledge €500 or
more

For €500, we'll sit

down with you and try
• Krita now supports selecting multiple layers, but not to fix your most hated
all tools can handle multiple layers in one go. Here's bug (if possible within
a set of goals that will make that feature much more a week of work, but
we'll do our best!).
useful! We want to move all selected layers at once,
You'll also get a
or move them into a group – and make sure we postcard, fame in the
support shortcuts for that. transform all selected credits, a vote for the
layers at once, select multiple layers using the 'R' stretch goals, a sheet
shortcut. Moving layers up and down using of stickers with Krita
shortcuts, remove all hiden layers or select all layers art, and the shortcut
sheet, we'll also have
in one go – we'll be taking more suggestions for this
an exclusive notebook
point before starting hacking!
• Update the look and feel of the layer docker panel. printed with the Krita
Let's re-arrange the icons for visibility, lockedness logo for you!
and other properties and make them prepared for hi-
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dpi screens, too. And we'll make it possible to assign DELIVERY Anywhere
a color to one or more layers. Dec 2015 in the
• Krita is unique: you can combine any combination of world
layers in any of the color models and channel depths
in a single image. Your 16 bit grayscale inking layer Limited
renders just fine together with your 8 bit RGB 3 backers

coloring layer. But figuring out that you've got such a

mixed image is harder. We'll add feedback on the
colormodel and bit depth of the layer, as well as
feedback when you start combining different color
models and channel depths in an image. Pledge €1,500 or
more

Every stretch goal is

€1500... No matter
whether we've
reached any stretch
goals, if you go for
this reward, you get to
• Preset selection improvements. There's the preset choose a full stretch
goal for us to work on!
dropdown, the preset docker panel, the preset
And this doesn't even
selection popup wheel, the / key to switch between take away your right
current and previous – but we want to add two more to vote!
features: a preset history docker that shows you the
We've also found a
history of the presets you used, and a way to select
very fancy tablet
favourite presets using the keyboard. This needs holder with built-in
careful design, but the implementation should be a extra battery, usb
breeze! stick holder, and extra
nooks and crannies
• Grids! We've got a very flexible grid system... But our
for your sketches.
interface is lacking! Let's create a docker panel that We'll have them
allows you to select from predefined grids, and printed with a
create new grid definitions, too. cheerful Kiki or a
stylish Krita logo and
• Memory management: the Level-of-Detail
send one to you with
performance optimization will make memory all speed.
management even more important. This stretch goal
You'll also get a
adds feedback on memory consumption as well as a
postcard, fame in the
gui for managing memory consumption settings. credits, a sheet of
• Working with selections. Ten years ago we wrote the stickers with Krita art,
current system of creating and combining and the shortcut
sheet, we'll also have
selections. Ever since we've wanted to find the time
 to fix it good and proper: make selections add, an exclusive notebook
subtract and intersect with sticky keys. Help us printed with the Krita
logo for you!
make that finally possible!
• Managing palettes and color swatches. We want to ESTIMATED SHIPS TO
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add tagging, searching, creating, saving and editing
Dec 2015 in the
of palettes. Palettes are also limited to 8 bit sRGB
colors, so we'll also create a new swatchbook format world
that allows for higher channel depth colors.
Limited
• Implement a Heads-Up-Display for easy manipulation 1 backer
of the view: rotation, pan, mirror, zoom and resetting
the canvas.
• Rulers and Guides: dragging out guides,
manipulating them and generating common sets of
guides in an easy way.
• Composition helps: vector objects that you can Funding period
place and that help with creating rules of thirds,
spiral, golden mean and other compositions. May 4 2015 - Jun 3 2015 (30
days)
• Animated file formats export. Our base goal for the
Big Animation Feature will support exporting your
animation frame by frame – and this stretch goal will
add saving to animated gif, animated png and
spritemaps.

Last year, we kicked ass with the transform tool

changes. Time to make the Move tool awesome!

• Add precision to the layer move tool, using keyboard

shortcuts to move by a precise number of pixels
• Show a tooltip when hovering over a layer with
content to show which one you're going to move.
(And the 'R' shortcut that selects the layer with
content, well, let's add that tooltip there as well.)
• Scale from center pivot: right now, we transform
from the corners, not the pivot point. Using a
 modifier key, we'll add scaling from the pivot – and
at the same time go through all transformation
options and add the same option where useful.

• We're flexible: we support both stop-based and

segment-based gradients already. But you can only
create segment-based gradients. Let's add a
gradient editor for the tried, trusted and familiar
stop-based gradients as well!
• HDR gradients. Nobody's got this – and we're so
close: define the stops in your gradients using
scene-referred colors. We'll fix the interpolation so
you can have smooth gradients ranging from lighter
than light to darker than dark.
• On-canvas gradient previews. Creating a gradient is
always a bit hit and miss... Clicking in the dark! You
draw the line, and a bit later, Krita draws a gradient.
We'll bring back the on-canvas, live gradient
preview, with as an optional extra, masking it out
with the current selection.
• A Gradient Map Filter. A filter that takes your
grayscale image and replaces the gray values with
the colors from the gradient.

• Stacked brushes... Grungy painting. Take two, or

more, why not!, brush tips and stack them together,
with offset, noise and your choice of blending
modes, as a mask or as a colored brush. Usuable in
every brush engine that uses brush tips. 
• Brush tip editor. Right now, you can take something
you painted in Krita and use it as a brush tip. But you
cannot edit a brush tip. We'll make Krita load and
 save ordinary and animated brush tips (of the gbr
and gih types) as images you can edit. And, of
course, you can turn your animation into an animated
brush, too.
• Textured brushes are awesome, but it would be even
more fun if you could select a texture on the fly, from
the texture docker or dropdown and have it work
with your current textured brush.
• Implement a Heads-Up-Display to manipulate the
most common brush settings: opacity, size, flow and
others.
• Fuzzy strokes: most brush properties can be set
randomly, but it's random for every drawn dab. This
feature will make the stroke consistent, but add
randomness between strokes.

Rewards

Thank you for supporting Krita! The biggest reward is of

course that you'll get a much improved Krita that you
can work with forever, that will never be closed up, that
will never stop working because a cloud server breaks -
a digital painting application that you build on!

For extra fun, we've added some cool things that,

hopefully will make supporting Krita even more
attractive. Already from fifteen euros, you will get your
name in the aboutbox. We'll make the about box a lot
more attractive too! Postcards with Krita art from your
favourite developers. Stickers to adorn your laptop and
tablets. Roomy usb-sticks with Krita and the first two
training DVD's pre-loaded. Downloads of the brand new
DVD Timothee Giet is working on. We've also designed
mugs, tote-bags, t-shirts, pencil cases, a fancy sketch
book and a tablet holder as thank-you rewards.

But in the end, it comes down to this:

Join us and let's make a free digital painting

application that is yours, just as much it is ours.

Download

Get the latest version of Krita and give it a spin!

https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/

It's free, and available for Windows and Linux -- and

we're working to make the OSX version stable, too.

Showing off

Krita is made for painters! Watch David Revoy create a

full scale illustration using Krita:

…
 Then, Krita is immensely powerful. You can paint in full
HDR mode. Baking your painting to a particular
exposure is one of the stretch goals.

 If full HDR is too much color, try simulating indexed

colors:
Our transform tools are even more awesome than
before:

And wrap-around mode for texture painting is

incredibly productive, and fun!

 Krita let's you work your way -- here's William Thorup

showing how he painted the Time Keeper illustration:
Artwork

Take a look at the wonderful artwork Krita users have

been making!

Mouse by Coyau
 Maharaja by Raghukamath

Leafy Dragon by Eo Fenstalker

Exogenesis by Chris Jones

Valdis by Wolthera
 Birthday by Danas Anis

Bird by Elena

Biosphere by James Abell

 Huion mascot by Alex Truman

Risks and challenges

We have been working on Krita for ten years now, and

have been bringing the application up to a high level of
usefulness.

The Krita Foundation has succesfully stewarded five

sponsored projects already: Lukáš Tvrdý's work on the
2.4 release ("Make Krita Ready for David Revoy"),
Timothee Giet's "Comics with Krita" training DVD,
Ramon Miranda's "Muses" training DVD and Dmitry
Kazakov's sponsored work on Krita 2.8 and Krita 2.9.

The 2014 Kickstarter was a success as well. We

delivered all but one features in 2.9.0. The Photoshop
Layer Style feature will be delivered this week.
Krita is released more or less every six months, and
every release has a host of new features,
improvements, bug fixes and speed-ups.

Release dates are approximate. If some features don't

make it to the next release because they take more
time to develop than we currently expect, we promise
to keep working on them for the next release!

If you have questions about this project, please mail

foundation@krita.org.

NOTE: "Faster than Photoshop" specifically is about

painting performance on big canvases, not about each
and every individual feature.

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