Krita Monthly Update – Edition 16

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Krita is 25 years old!

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Artwork by David Revoy (CC BY-SA)

May 31, 2024 marks Krita’s 25th birthday. As one would expect, there have been many changes over the years – even the name changed several times. You can get a look inside Krita’s history in this blog post written by @Halla, Krita’s Maintainer for more than 20 years.

In honour of this milestone, @RamonM prepared a special treat for all Krita users: a video interview with @Halla.

Your feedback is requested

  • 5.2.3-Beta1 was released June 5th. This release represents a complete rework of the build system and numerous fixes by the core Krita developer team as well as @freyalupen, @Grum999, @NabilMaghfurUsman, @Deif_Lou, Alvin Wong, Rasyuqa A. H. and Mathias Wein. There are a number of first-time contributors whose names appear next to their contribution in the release notes.

  • Testing packages for every platform are provided on the release notes page. Please report your findings and feedback in the Testers Wanted thread.

  • Text property editing: Merge request 2092 is almost finished, awaiting review. Testing builds are now available on the CI. @Wolthera is requesting user feedback on the UX. Please read this post and share your comments there.

  • Google Summer of Code (GSOC) @Ken_Lo is seeking input on the Pixel Perfect project Pixel perfect line setting for pixel art brushes - #16 by Ken_Lo

Other Development Highlights

  • @Grum999 is improving the python API so that it is more robust for python developers and they can access more of krita’s internal features through python. There is a work-in-progress MR to add new scripting functions for accessing Grids, Guides, and Mirror Axes from the document, and signals for changes in the document and view. MR

  • @Ralek has added lossless transformation conditions - Rotations in increments of 90 degrees, and perfect x and y mirrors should now be lossless. This should greatly help out pixel artists, who I believe previously could not use these functions at all. Add lossless transformation conditions (!2137) · Merge requests · Graphics / Krita · GitLab

Community report

May 2024 Monthly Art Challenge

And the winner is… Cat Reflection by Elixiah.

For the June Art Challenge, Elixiah has chosen Magnificent Dragon with an interesting optional challenge for any who care to give themselves an added stretch.

Featured artwork

Ten images were submitted to the Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread which was open from April 14th to May 11th. When voting closed on May 14th, these five had the most votes and were added to the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner.

Quiet Morning by @Gurkirat_Singh.


Pollinatrix Terrae by @jimplex.

The Lone Rider-2 by @rohithela.

005 (Spider in the web) by @HappyBuket.

Challenge Horn by @MangooSalade.

In addition to their place of honour on the banner, all five will be entered into the Best of Krita-Artists 2024 competition next January.

The Best of Krita-Artists May/June Nominations thread will be open for submissions until June 11, 2024. You are invited to join in by nominating your favourite piece of Krita artwork!

Noteworthy plugin

Create a New View as Window and Topped by @Cliscylla saves steps by opening a new view and setting it to always stay on top.

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Tutorial of the month

How to record video directly from Krita and post to social media by @Deevad is a comprehensive tutorial for beginner and intermediate Krita users. It takes the viewer through the initial screen set up and recommended canvas dimensions right through to the export process.

Ways to help Krita

Krita is a Free and Open Source application, mostly developed by an international team of enthusiastic volunteers. Donations from Krita users to support maintenance and development is appreciated.

Visit Krita’s funding page to see how donations are used and explore a one-time or monthly contribution.

Notable changes in code

This section has been compiled by @freyalupen.
(May 6 - June 6, 2024)

Stable branch (5.2.3-beta1):
Bugfixes:

  • [General] Don’t waste memory generating empty animation frames on images with no animation. This was a regression in 5.2.x. (commit, Dmitry Kazakov)
  • [Storyboard Docker] Fix reordering storyboard scenes causing all frame data to be deleted while still appearing to be present. (BUG:476440) (merge request, Freya Lupen)
  • [Android: Animation] Fix crash when attempting to load audio on Android, a regression present in 5.2.2.1. (merge request, Dmitry Kazakov)

Stable branch (5.2.3-beta1+):

Bugfixes:

Features:

  • [Scripting] Generate a Python type stub file for Krita’s API, which can be used to setup type auto-completion in IDEs, located inside the Krita package at /lib/krita-python-libs/PyKrita/krita.pyi. (merge request, Kate Corcoran)

Stable branch (5.2.3-beta1+) backports from Unstable:
Bugfixes:

  • [Recorder Docker] Reworked default recorder docker FFmpeg profiles. If canvas size changes during recording, the export profiles now keep aspect instead of stretching (BUG:429326). Issues with resize, result preview, and extend result are avoided (BUG:455006, BUG:450790, BUG:485515, BUG:485514). For MP4, detect whether openh264 or libx264 is present instead of using separate profiles. Also, prevent an error when using FFmpeg 7. (merge request, Ralek Kolemios)
  • [Selection Tools] Fix issue making selections on color-labeled reference selections. (BUG:486419) (commit, Deif Lou)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Features:

Bugfixes:

These changes are made available for testing in the following Nightly builds:

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Thanks for the update, I tried 5.3.0-prealpha on Win 10 PC.

When I press Ctrl+Alt while holding the Free Transform tool, nothing changes. Does anyone know the cause of this?
I’ve tried stopping all plugins just to be sure, and I’ve tried making sure there are no conflicts in the canvas input settings, but the function is not available.
To reliably access this functionality, it might be a good idea to show handles on the rotation of the transformation as well as the modifier.

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A precision about this MR: it’s not ready yet :slight_smile:

  • There’s a lot of additional work & review
  • I’m currently splitting it in smaller MR: this means the MR itself at the end will be cancelled in favor of multiple small MR

Grum999

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Once you activate free trasnform tool, then press ctrl and alt together and hover your mouse outside of the bounding box. it will turn the icon into a new icon then if you click and drag it will rotate the box.

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I am doing exactly what you are saying and nothing has changed.
Are there any windous users who are using this feature without any problems?

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It didn’t work for me in Krita’s default profile either. But when I change the profile to “tablet pro” or “csp”, this feature works.
I don’t understand why, but if anyone knows the reason for this, please write, thank you.

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Thanks for the tip. :grinning:

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I was able to use the rotation feature by setting Alternate Invocation in the profile like this. Is this the case for anyone else but me?

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Oh my god I’m so excited to try Free transform bounding box rotation! Thank you Stuffin and the Krita team!

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