Tras Several months development, the stable version of Krita 5.2 It was announced this week. KDE, or the part of the team that is responsible for this drawing and image editing software, He decided that for this launch they had to focus on addressing some of Krita's main problems, and this has translated into a lot of background work that they hope will also end up being seen on the surface, in the use of the application.
Krita 5.2 is a medium update, and as such it has arrived with new features. It stands out, for example, that in the animations They have fixed synchronized audio playback and simplified video export. Speaking of exporting, before you had to go to the FFmpeg executable to export, and that is something they have started to change in the recently released Krita 5.2. The bad thing is that at the time the new version was released it still did not work on Android due to limitations in the platform itself. They are already working on solutions.
What's new in Krita 5.2
In Krita 5.2 the text layer engine. You can now manage everything that was already possible with the old engine, such as text on a path, vertical text and collected text and text on a shape.
In terms of tools, several problems have been fixed and added new tools, like the filling one, which has also reached the selection tool.
Continuing with what has arrived, several new actions have been added:
- Toggle Eraser Preset allows you to switch to the preset that would otherwise be stored for the 'eraser' end of the tablet stylus.
- Sample Screen Color allows you to select a color anywhere on the screen, even outside of Krita, similar to the Sample button in the Select a Color dialog.
- Select Layers from the Canvas Input Menu allows you to select a layer on the canvas from a drop-down menu.
- There is now a Clip Studio Paint that supports the shortcut scheme.
- Krita can now detect conflicts in canvas input configuration shortcuts.
other developments
- Wide Gamut Color Selector which is almost the same as the advanced color selector, with the difference of selecting colors in wide gamuts instead of just sRGB.
- Improvements in file format management.
- Added surround directions for surround mode.
- Added the ability to delete individual entries from Recent Documents.
- Improved the tablet checker so you now have access to tilt data.
- Implemented easier resource location selection for Android.
- Now resets document metadata when using a template.
- Improved color profile display names.
- Cleaned up the user interface throughout.
- Added a Lambert shading mode.
Krita 5.2 can now be downloaded as an AppImage for X86_64 from the following button. The flatkap and snap packages will be updated in the coming days. It will arrive in the repositories of the different Linux distributions in a time that will depend on their philosophies.