Tag Archives: KDE

Krita 2.6 released

Hi, This week the Calligra suite released version 2.6, including latest stable Krita. Lots of cool stuff (though more cool features are already in master branch, waiting for 2.7… ). The official announcement is here on Krita.org, including a nice presentation booklet. This release introduce the new icon I’ve made, based on the Krita Sketch […]

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KXStudio, a good audio distribution using KDE

Since a few months my main computer is running a special Ubuntu-based distribution called KXStudio. It’s actually a set of PPAs on top of ubuntu repositories, meant to provide updated and additional audio-creation software. Also it’s using KDE Plasma as official desktop, with a very good default configuration and an up-to-date 4.9.5 version. So if […]

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Krita Sketch Release

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 […]

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Lots of Krita news!

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, […]

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Krita demo @ Minecon

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 […]

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