Krita 4.4.2 with over 300 changes has been released.

Krita 4.4.2 Released

Today, the Krita team ihas released Krita 4.4.2. With over 300 changes, this is mainly a bugfix release, though some key new features, too!

New Features

Mesh Gradients

Sharaf Zaman’s Google Summer of Code project has landed in this release! Compatible with Inkscape, Krita now provides the second independent implementation of SVG Mesh Gradients. Mesh gradients are used on vector objects and can deliver really natural looking results

Mesh Transform

But the gradients are not the only mesh related feature! This release also sees the first iteration of the mesh-transform. Like the gradient mesh, the mesh transform consists of bezier patches that can be individually shaped to create precise transforms, especially useful for rounded objects. Not shown in the above screenshot: you can optionally show the handles of each bezier curve making up the mesh for even more precision and control!

We’re still tweaking this one, but currently the shortcuts are the following:

Mesh node:

– click+drag — move node

Border node:

– click+drag — move node

– shift+click+drag — move whole row/column

– ctrl+alt+click+drag — split/slide row/column

– ctrl+alt+click+drag-away — remove split

Control point:

– click+drag — change control point symmetrically

– shift+click+drag — change control point non-symmetrically;

this action will create angular texture

artifacts

Node or Control:

– ctrl+click — select multiple nodes

Patch area:

– click+drag — free patch deform

– shift+click+drag — move whole mesh

Empty area outside mesh:

– click+drag — rotate mesh or selection

– ctrl+click+drag — scale mesh or selection

– shift+click+drag — move mesh or selection

Gradient Fill Layer and new Gradient Editor

Deif Lou added a new gradient fill layer type, this one will make it easy to quickly create a variety of gradients non-destructively. With it, he also made an important usability fix: Gradients in Krita could be either segment type, or stop type, with different features each, and different editors each. That could get quite annoying if you were working on a gradient, but you realized you had the wrong type! This is now fixed, as both gradient types can now be edited by the same editor, which also converts between the two.

Improved Halftone Filter

Deif Lou also created a new halftone filter. The old filter was slow and could not be used as a filter mask, and could only show dots.

The new filter can handle being applied as filter layer, per-channel filtering, and the pattern itself can be generated with any of the fill layer options, giving endless combinations.

Updated macOS integration plugins

Amyspark improved the quicklook plugin by adding thumbnailing support (needs macOS 10.15 or higher) and added metadata support for Spotlight.

A Paste Shape Style Action

A small feature that allows you to only paste the style of the copied vector shape onto other selected vector shapes. This feature can be found under the edit menu, or assigned a shortcut in the shortcut settings.

A Toolbar Button for Wraparound Mode

Originally, we had a shortcut, W, that enabled Krita’s Wraparound mode, one of the features Adobe copied this year for the next release of Photoshop.

But too many people pressed the shortcut by accident and were then confused and thought Krita had gone crazy… So we removed the shortcut, but now nobody could find it anymore. That’s why in this release, we have added a button to the toolbar that activates wraparound

New brushes

There are also six new brushes by Ramon Miranda, meant to show off the new RGBA brush tip feature

HiDPI Support

Agata Cacko improved HiDPI rendering (BUG:411118) of

Pixelart previews

Reference images

Comic manager pages

Image thumbnails in the last documents docker

Recent documents thumbnails

The Popup palette

Clipboard content in the new image dialog

The Color selectors

Gamut masks

Brush preset icon in the Brush preset editor

Layer thumbnails and icons

Resource choosers

Bundle icons

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