Krita Sketch Release

Posted on December 14th, 2012

Today has been officially announced the release of Krita Sketch, the touch-optimised and QML-based version of Krita.
It has all the useful tools from Krita that one needs to sketch or speedpaint on the go.

Here is a quick presentation of the interface:
(note: all the drawings in these screenshots are really made inside krita sketch using a touch device and my finger 😉 )

-At launch, you can choose to open previous files or to create a new one. Also you can access the latest news from krita website on the right side

welcome to krita sketch

-On the canvas view, there are 6 options panels on the top side, plus the main menu panel on the bottom side.
The menu panel has controls, from left to right, to create, load, save and save-as files, undo, redo, zoom-in and out, reduce and close the window.

panels and menu

-The top panels can be opened in two different modes: peek and full. In peek mode, you just click the label, and you have access to the most important content of the panel. Then just click the canvas to close it. To get it in full mode, drag the label to the right or left side of the canvas and it will expand there. Then dragging another label at the same place will switch panels.

panel modes

The content of each panel is:

-Presets panel: select the brush preset to use. No preset edition yet.

-Tool panel: On the panel blue border, you can switch tool category (paint or transform), and quickly switch erase mode on/off when paint tool category is selected.
In full mode, it has a white part where you can select different tools from this category (painting: freehand, fill, gradient; transform: move, crop). Then there are the settings for the selected tool.

-Select panel: on the green border there are controls to deselect, reselect and show/hide selection. Inside the panel, the first line of controls activate the different selection tools (rectangle, polyline, area, color), the second line is to change the mode (replace, intersection, add, substract), and the rest of the controls to edit active selection.

-Layers panel: on the red border there are controls to add, edit (full mode only) and remove layers. Add layer in peek view automatically add a paint layer, in full mode you choose between paint, group or filter layers. In edit mode, you can rename layer, change blending mode, opacity, toggle visibility, lock/unlock and activate/desactivate separate color channels …

-Color panel: on the panel border there are current foreground and background colors, a color-picker tool switch, and a button to switch color-wheel and palette modes (peek mode only, as in full mode you already have access to both)

-Filter panel: on the border, one button to apply current filter, and another to switch filter preview on/off. Use the first dropdown list to select the filter category, and the second to select the filter. Then there are some controls available depending on the selected filter.

more panels

Have fun painting with Krita sketch :.)

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Lots of Krita news!

Posted on December 8th, 2012

Some exciting news about Krita:

-We now have a Krita foundation, “to support and further the development and use of Krita in any way imaginable”. It is now possible to subscribe to Krita development funding, check the link to know more about it.

-We just launched a contest to draw a new portrait of Konqui, the green dragon KDE mascot. Again check the link for details if you’re interested to enter the contest. The jury consists of David Revoy, Nuno Pinheiro and me, so I’m looking forward to your entries! 🙂

On a side note, here’s a little funny screencast I made with Krita, to promote the new Ultrabooks touch at the mineconf:

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Krita demo @ Minecon

Posted on November 28th, 2012

Last week-end, I was at “Minecon 2012” in Disneyland Paris, doing some Krita sketch demos at the Intel booth.

The demos topic was drawing people’s portrait in a speedpainted minecraft style, which was a fun work.
People looked very interested in Krita sketch and touch painting, so I think it was successful.

Also it was a very cool place to be, thanks to the great minecraft community 🙂

Here’s a little video showing the booth:

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Mixed news

Posted on September 15th, 2012

Last week, the kickstarter for Lunatics pilot voice+storyboard production has failed (not too far from the goal, almost 75%). The project is still going on, though I won’t can do the pilot storyboard animatics, and so they’ll use rough sketches from Terry instead. Still I’ll try to contribute to it in my spare time.
You can keep supporting this cool Free Culture project with the donation link on the official webpage: http://lunatics.tv/

On another topic, I’m working now on interface design for Krita Sketch, which is the upcoming minimal tablet-optimised version of Krita.
It’s still in alpha stage, more news to come soon.

Also I’ve made a new icon for Krita, based on the squirrel mascot, take a look:

Krita New Icon

If you build Krita from git master, you should have the new icon already. If it still use the old one when running, make sure to erase the kde icon cache ( rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache-”user”/icon-cache.kcache ), and also erase the krita.png icons from the oxygen package (here they were in /usr/share/icons/oxygen/16×16/apps , in all folders from 16×16 to 128×128).

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Lunatics production: Plan B started

Posted on August 16th, 2012

Hi,

As the Kickstarter for the full production of the pilot was likely not going to succeed, Terry launched “Plan B”: He cancelled this “too big for now” kickstarter and launched another one, much smaller, to fund the animatics and audio recording for the pilot.

Check the details HERE.

Let’s hope this one will succeed, and that the results of this step will bring enough audience to enable the rest of the production.

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