A New Dawn of Free/Open Source Painting on Windows

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Hot on the heels of the Krita 2.5 first beta release www.krita.org/item/114-first-k…, Team Krita, along with KO GmbH and Intel are launching a whole new campaign to take over Windows.

Now in addition to the experimental Windows builds of Krita (available at this www.kogmbh.com/download.html ) Team Krita are releasing a whole new touch aware application designed at professional artists dubbed "Krita Sketch", that goes far beyond the basic finger painting apps seen to date.

With Krita Sketch there are now also 3 devs being hired to do some serious bug termination on the windows side of things (which has always lagged behind in development as none of the devs use Windows). This is huge, as the vast majority of professional painters have never even heard of free software, Krita or Linux before. Could Krita be their gateway to a whole new world?

Check out the whole story at this www.krita.org/item/115-krita-o….

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I can't wait for the windows special edition of Krita. I hope it will be free of charge. There is no equivalent on windows but Gimp Paint but I agree with David Revoy review about it:
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I currently use MyPaint that is great for painting but a free app that will mix painting tools - as great as in MyPaint, Corel Painter, Gimp Paint - and image edition tools that will have a free transform tool: [link]

This last tool can be very useful to apply pattern to volume object. See this video at 4:21min and 4:55min: [link]

Reference layer is an interesting concept for coloring used in illustudio: [link]

An app that will match all of those tools for windows will just be perfect.