Highlights: Krita Painting App

As 2D vec­tor graph­ics de­sign­ers and de­velopers we are on a quest to ex­plore the in­nov­a­tions and great ideas be­hind the soft­ware gems we in­spire from. If you are in­to draw­ing and sketch­ing, you've prob­ably stumbled upon Krita – an open source free app for di­git­al paint­ers, il­lus­trat­ors and concept artists. Krita has a steady set of core fea­tures plus a vari­ety of help­ful tools and we would like to high­light some of them for you in short videos.

1. Mirror Mode

Small but mind-catching: a funny tool for easy creation of symmetrical objects and geometrical patterns. You could quickly get hooked on it.

2. Automatic Brush Orientation

Brush orientation follows your mouse or tablet pen movement for a more natural look.

3. Pen Movement Smoothing

Calms down your shaky mouse or tablet pen to draw steadier, smoothed lines.

4. Drawing Assistants

This feature lets you set parallel points, vanishing points, perspective grids and other types of assistants. And it comes with different snap options.

5. Transform Mask

Apply tweaks to objects using masks that you can switch on and off for a quick return to the object's original state. All object modifications are reflected into the mask.

6. Clone Layer

Want to simultaneously apply all the changes and transform masks in a layer to its multiple copies? Clone it.

7. Favourite Tools on Right Click

A handy option for quicker drawing process. Brings up color selector, history palette and brush palette.

8. Color History

Color values history for a quick call-back of an already used value.

9. Color Wheel Format

Not just one, actually – several color wheel formats to choose from for faster color selection.