Krita Monthly Update – Edition 06

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Welcome back! This monthly ‘zine is curated for you by the @Krita-promo team.

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Development report

First Beta for Krita 5.2.0 Released – Please help by testing and reporting bugs!

  • 5.2.0-beta1 was released. That includes a work-in-progress redesign of the welcome page, but it’s already been updated in the nightly builds.
  • FFmpeg is now built into Krita simplifying the video export process. Audio support is also written from scratch in the beta release.
  • 5.2 is now the stable branch, the unstable nightly builds are now 5.3-prealpha.
  • Developers are still busy fixing bugs; there were lots of fixes related to the new animation audio and text engines.

What’s new in 5.2?

Full release notes are available.

Or watch this video by @wojtryb.

Community report

Monthly Art Challenge – 2 items of note

  • We completed the July Art Challenge, Yin and Yang. When the voting closed, @Elixiah’s artwork was in the #1 spot. If you’d like to see all the submissions (they’re fabulous!) and final poll results, here it is.
  • August is Kiki month – a tradition that began last year – so @Elixiah was asked to create a theme for the August challenge that incorporates Kiki in some way. And she did it!. Take a look at this month’s challenge theme. Why not join in the fun?

Your feedback is requested

@RamonM is working on a new ink brush bundle. He’s especially interested in testers with tilt. WIP INK brushes. Feedback

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Krita Artists helping each other

53 help topics were marked solved between July 5 and August 6, 2023. Thank you to everyone who makes other artists’ drawing time easier by helping them find solutions.

Featured artwork

August is Kiki Month!

Since August is Kiki month, we pulled a few gems from the finished artwork posted on Krita-Artists from 2020 to 2023.

Sweets and Kiki by @Frittatart. Sweets and Kiki

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Kiki creates the world by @loentar Kiki creates the world

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Smug Kiki by @Zer0Frost Smug Kiki

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Kiki and Leon - spring butterfly festival by Alexsabo Kiki and Leon - spring butterfly festival

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Tutorial of the month

How to use David Revoy’s 2023 free brush bundle

In January of this year, @Deevad shared a bundle containing 38 brushes that he made with his visual vocabulary in mind. The video demonstrates how the brushes are grouped for quick selection and shows how he uses each one. A link to the brush bundle is in the video description.

Ways to help Krita

Now that the 5.2 Beta is released, you can help out by testing it and reporting any problems you find. Download links and installation tips are in the announcement post.

Another way to help is to support Krita with a one-time donation, a subscription to the development fund or by purchasing Krita in one of the supported app stores!

Notable changes in code

This section has been compiled by @freyalupen.

(July 1- August 1, 2023)

5.2 is now the Stable branch, the Unstable branch is now 5.3.

Stable branch (5.2.0-beta+):
Features:

  • [General] Update the welcome page. The Recent Images are displayed more prominently now, and dockers, the ‘Brushes and Stuff’ toolbar, and the status bar are hidden. There is currently a donation banner; in the future this is intended to be dynamically used for fundraisers, release announcements, etc. (merge request, Halla Rempt, Sharaf Zaman)

Bugfixes:

Development build fixes (for bugs not present in Release builds):

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
Features:

Bugfixes:

The latest changes are made available for testing daily in the following development builds:

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