Moreover, we all believe that artists should own and control their tools, and that digital art should be just as accessible as putting a pencil to paper. Krita is made by a global team of programmers and artists, some working professionally and others passionately contributing their talents when they can, with the shared mission of creating a powerful and expressive tool for artists everywhere. One of the main things that makes Krita stand out from its rivals is its non-profit, open source and community-driven development model. Hey, wait! Don’t skip this part… Krita really needs your support! And of course, there’s a ton of cool new features that we can’t wait for our community of artists to start working with, but before we dig into the details… It has certainly been a long time coming and a lot of hard work, but Krita 5 is here at last! I can say with a measure of pride (and a whole helping of relief for the development team) that 5.0 is up there among the largest and most significant updates that Krita has ever seen, affecting and improving almost every aspect of the program in a variety of ways, big and small.

However, opening files created with earlier versions of Krita may require changing a setting to get the originally expected text size.

Krita 5.0 fixed an issue with text size in documents.

Krita 4 and earlier cannot use brush presets created in Krita 5.

Krita 5.0 has an updated brush preset file format (.kpp).

Krita 5.0 cannot load vector layers created before Krita 3.0 and has a completely reworked resource system.

Krita 5.0 is a major release of Krita.Note on File Compatibility with Krita 4.x and Krita 3.x files:

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