Krita 3.0: First Alpha Release. How to install Krita 3.0 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems.
The release announcement says:
On the road to Krita 3.0, we’re releasing today the first alpha version. This has all the features that will be in 3.0, and contains the translations, but is still unstable. We’re fixing bugs all the time, but there’s still plenty to fix! That said, we think we nailed the worst problems and we’d love for you all to give this version a try! The final release is planned for May 1st.
Kriat 3.0 Alpha – What’s New
A short overview of new features compared to Krita 2.9:
- Tools for creating hand-drawn animations
- Instant Preview for working with big brushes and large canvases
- Rulers, guides, grids and snapping
- Revamped layer panel
- loading and saving gimp brushes
- and much, much more…
New Features
- You can now move multiple selected layers at once
- And move masks with Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn
- Updated to G’MIC 1.7
- Updated Design templates
Also removed the print and print preview options; printing in Krita has never worked well, and after porting to Qt5 broke completely.
User Interface and Usability Improvements
- Splash screen shows what area is loading on startup
- Updated Grids and Guides Tool Options UI elements
- Some checkboxes have been replaced with lock icons like the crop and geometry tool options
- Global Input pressure curve now has labels with the axes. ( Settings > Configure Krita > Tablet Settings ).
- Use highlighted color for the selected tool in toolbox (easier to see)
- Resource manager has separate buttons for importing resources now. This improves the stability with this area.
Krita 3.0 is also based on Qt 5 and the KF5 Framework libraries.
Download Krita 3.0
The Linux appimage should run on any Linux distribution released since 2012. After downloading, make the appimage executable and run it. No installation is needed.
- AppImage Linux AppImage Alpha 1
Install Krita 3.0
Run the following commands in Terminal to install and update Krita 3.0 Alpha on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita3-testing
Once installed, open the Krita application from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.