Krita: open source digital painting | Accelerate Development

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Krita is the leading, professional-level open source digital painting application. Help us add 24 (or more!) powerful new features.
Backers: 690
Average Pledge Per Backer: $29

Funded: $19,955 of $15,000
Dates: Jun 10th -> Jul 10th (30 days)
Project By: Krita Foundation
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Latest News

LAST MINUTE UPDATE - AND REWARD!

July 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you everyone for your amazing support! We're so close to breaking through 20K, and with your help we can and will do it! To say thank-you, once we break through 20k, we'll be giving each and every backer, large or small, one last reward: a... (Read More)

Home stretch...

July 9th - via: kickstarter.com
By the time I wake up tomorrow morning, it'll be over... Our first kickstarter campaign will have ended! I hope we'll reach 20,000 euro, since that's such a nice milestone to show on the page. Though when I count the paypal donations, we're already... (Read More)

34 hours left...

July 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Only 30 or so hours left before it comes to a close. We're at nearly 700 backers and close to 19,000 euros! That's including the paypal backers who started donating after we reached the initial goal! Over on the krita.org, I've blogged a summary of... (Read More)

Mask visualization, translations -- and more than 600 backers!

July 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow, 600 backers... That's awesome! Here's something new for all of you to show our appreciation for your support! New builds, with bug fixes, a big new feature and... Translations. Let's take it one by one. Feature 22 was "Mask display: show masks... (Read More)

17,000 -- and nearly 600 backers!

July 7th - via: kickstarter.com
This weekend, we went over 17,000 -- and there's more than 600 euro in pledges on paypal as well! In the meantime, we've had a busy weekend. There was another developer sprint Deventer. On Saturday, we discussed the long-term roadmap for Krita. The... (Read More)

Eeek... krita.org down

July 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Eeek! This morning we had to pull krita.org offline. The sysadmin team is doing a server migration and problems with krita.org were discovered... It's not certain when it'll be up again, and this means that our paypal donation page is down! And I... (Read More)

New builds!

July 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
So, we're over 16,000 euros now! And if you count the paypal donations we're pretty close to 17,000! Check here for the paypal option -- same rewards, but paypal :-) But that's not all! As Libre Graphics World reported, we're not sitting on our... (Read More)

We made it :-)

July 1st - via: kickstarter.com
And after a good night's sleep, we suddenly are over 15,000 :-). Time for a celebratory cake! Cake!  And now for some stretch goals! I'll also setup the much-demanded paypal page today! In the meantime, here are two more videos by Ramon:    (Read More)

Get Krita on OSX!

June 30th - via: kickstarter.com
After a couple of weekends of really hard work, I'm estimating about eighty hours, I've got a build of Krita on OSX ready for download... http://www.valdyas.org/~boud/krita_osx_2.8.79.0.tgz Note that this is a real prototype. It isn't a proper... (Read More)

Quick tease...

June 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Nope, no packages yet. I need to do some major hackery before I can share this build... But I did use Krita for some real work today! On OSX! Now, let's perpesective transform that icon to fit on the drive icon..,  So, yes, one of our goals --... (Read More)

New Build, New Features

June 27th - via: kickstarter.com
We've got a new development build to play with! http://heap.kogmbh.net/downloads/krita_x64_2.8.79.9.msi And the *buntu package in Krita Lime is coming up as well. What's new? Well -- we've got an extension to the brush stabilizer. It's kin to the... (Read More)

More Krita Tips by Ramon Miranda

June 26th - via: kickstarter.com
We have two backers now who've chosen the reward that rewards everyone -- a tutorial created by Wolthera! That's so cool! And we're pretty much well over 75% backed! In the meantime, check out Ramon Miranda's new Krita Tips on Youtube. He's got eight... (Read More)

A bit of OSX progress

June 25th - via: kickstarter.com
No Krita doesn't run yet and I haven't got packages for you either -- but there _is_ progress here! The splash screen shows up :-) Splashing on OSX!    (Read More)

Four hundred!

June 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Four hundred backers! That's awesome! While Dmitry and Sven are busy hacking on new features, let's talk about a feature that is planned for 2.9, but isn't on the list. That's because I started working on it a year ago... And it's something quite a... (Read More)

More OSX progress and a nice video!

June 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
So, this was a quiet weekend -- though we did break through 9000 euros, and are quite close to 10,000 now! One of the artists in our community, Bollebib, took our cute mascot, Kiki, and made this: (he assures me that it's a well-known meme, but it... (Read More)

Lots and lots of bugfixes...

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
So, yesterday, we couldn't publish a new build because Windows was being obnoxious... Today we've got a really nice fresh build to play with in the weekend! http://heap.kogmbh.net/downloads/krita_x64_2.8.79.8.msi (And lime packages are being built.)... (Read More)

Krita for painting indexed color images

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
What I forgot to add to the previous update... Krita is pretty good with HDR images, and there isn't a special image mode for indexed images. Adding one would be really hard, too, because our basic architecture. But there are several filters and... (Read More)

No new builds today...

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
We haven't been idle -- Dmitry has fixed a big issue with the vector layers (technically, it was caused by work on making translating Krita easier...), fixed numerous issues with yesterday's brand new editable selection feature and so on. And in... (Read More)

More cool stuff to play with :-)

June 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Whoops, and we've topped 8000 euros! Thanks for all the support! On to the next milestone! Here are some cool new things to read, watch and play with! To start with, Ramon Miranda, the author of the Muses training DVD (which you get as  a download... (Read More)

Another Development Update

June 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Yay! We're already over 50% funded -- not bad, when you realize we launched only last week. Still, there are those stretch goals we want to reach! It's pretty hard to get coverage in the media, so we're really dependent on you all to to spread the... (Read More)

Also... A new brush stabilizer

June 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Another new thing in the build I just linked to... A new brush stabilizer algorithm, by Juan Luis Boya García. As demoed by Wolthera, one of our resident artists:  (Read More)

First Feature Implemented...

June 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks everyone who has backed us! We're not there yet, but who knows... We might break the 7000 euro barrier today! In any case, here's a nice update: Dmitry has already implemented one of the features on the list: 23. Implement the isolated layer... (Read More)

A new feature for Krita 2.9: painting in HDR mode

June 13th - via: kickstarter.com
So, while trying to make this kickstarter campaign a success, we've already at least one awesome new feature for Krita 2.9: painting and selecting colors in HDR mode. We've just published an article on the topic on krita.org. Basically, it allows you... (Read More)

Coverage for our kickstarter

June 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We've been getting lots and lots of mail of kickstarter promotion companies... I'm not sure I trust those! They promise to get more coverage for our campaign... But in any case, here's the coverage we've had up to now: Libre Graphics World:... (Read More)

Krita, free painting app, launches Kickstarter campaign

June 12th - via: libregraphicsworld.org
Krita Foundation is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund full-time development of 24 new features requested by the artists community. (Read More)

Lots going on already

June 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Check out these posts by Dmitry Kazakov and Somsubhra Bairi... While we were preparing for the kickstarter, we haven't been idle code-wise! Dmitry tells about the improvements he made to tablet support -- for wacom art pens, and making sure an... (Read More)

Rewards Update

June 10th - via: kickstarter.com
This is our first kickstarter... So we're making mistakes, and rewards are especially complicated! So I want to make clear: everyone up from 25 euros will get stickers and a postcard!  (Read More)

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