This week has had some really cool developments thanks to a combination of community and dev involvement. There’s a new mirror canvas on mouse cursor, new “share curve” behavior in brush settings, and Know Zero has been working on a Japanese vertical text plugin. All of these started as a topic here on krita-artists then eventually got implemented. I think it has been really cool to see all these features become a reality after (lots) of community discussion.
Also this week the (probably) last update to Krita 4 was released. Krita 4.4.8 includes only two bug fixes and it’s really recommended if you’re on 4.4.5-7 you should update for those bug fixes. More information on the krita site.
Finally for the general bug trends there has been a small increase with 38 new bugs, 35 closed, for a total 3 new ones. Although few wishes/features have been completed so I would say it’s about even this week. If you’re trying out the beta please make sure to report new bugs at the bug tracker.
New Features
Added a color preview to the Specific Color Selector (As Sa)
Mirror Canvas around cursor image (Alan North)
(Image from Alan North)
Added support for reading tiff file layer and metadata from photoshop (Amyspark)
Crashes
Fixed a crash when creating a filter brush and selecting the gradient map and index colors (Deif Lou)
In the pattern docker trying to click and drag a pattern onto another no longer crashes (Halla Rempt)
Fixed some compatibility issue with old brush bundles crashing Krita on import( Halla Rempt)
In the pattern docker trying to click and drag a pattern onto another no longer crashes (Halla Rempt)
Bug Fixes
Unchecking “share curve” in the brush settings now does not reset the current/active curves when unsetting “share curve” (Alan North)
The brush preset window no longer leaves behind an outline on screen when the window is detached on mac (Ivan Yossi)
Fixed UI parameters behaving odd when selecting some filters like halftone in a filter brush (Deif Lou)
The “clear color history button” in the advanced color selector docker will now be disabled/orientated according to the color history widget (Tiar)
color selection tool fuzziness didn’t stick on restart (Halla Rempt)
Lots of really cool updates this week. As always if you enjoy what the Krita team is doing consider donating to the Krita dev fund at fund.krita.org. It helps out a lot to keep development funded.