7/4/2023 0 Comments Krita for mac m1We started sponsoring Ramon Miranda to publish regular videos on Krita’s youtube channel. CommunityĬompared to 2019, we have almost twice the number of downloads 4,856,435 downloads compared to 2,346,618 in 2019 - and that’s just from our download page. The first two are already released, the other two projects have been merged to master and will be in Krita 5.0. We also had Four Google Summer of Code: Sharaf Zaman with Mesh Gradients, Amyspark with the SeExpr-based scriptable fill layers, Saurabh Kumar with storyboarding and Ashwin Daikata with the MyPaint brush engine. We will have to finish this next year, so we can release Krita 5.0 and can start spending time on fun things like the text tool, machine learning based image scaling, dithered and HDR gradients and other fun and fancy features. The 2020 February sprint was intended to be a kick-off for a concerted attack on the resource system with four people working on until it was done, but then came March… And yes, we also mentioned that already last year. We decided to change too many things in one big refactoring and, frankly, it’s motivation-sapping especially in a year that’s already hard on everyone. And as a project, it turns out it’s simply too large. It is taking a lot of work to convert all the places where resources (like brushes, gradients, presets) are used to the new system. The resource rewrite project still isn’t done, though pretty much everything is in place. You can test all of that in the nightly builds for Windows, Linux and macOS: KDE’s binary factory certainly has been the single most important thing for improving our development process! Though the move to gitlab also did wonders for our productivity. Apart from the new features that ended up in releases, we also worked on supporting MyPaint brushes, making the appimages updatable, a new plugin for recording your painting process, storyboarding, a ton of new features and updates for animations and a lot of work on a project that we have been working on for three years now: the resource system rewrite. Over all the branches, there were 5486 commits in 2020. Check the link if you want to read about the nightmares… CodeĪnd we coded… A lot. We get too many bug reports that are actually user support requests, but apart from that, it’s a never ending stream of things that need to be cleaned up. With these releases came improved brush outlines while painting, new features for the color smudge brush, watercolor brush presets, new filters, extended scripting support, the snapshot docker, a magnetic selection tool, new fill layers, new features for the pixel brush engine, mesh gradients, mesh transforms, improvements to the gradients - and much, much more, as well as hundreds of bug fixes. So, what did we do? In the first place, we made four releases: Krita 4.2.9, 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.4.1, and now we’re working on 4.4.2. It feels surreal to think we actually had a real, physical development sprint - in February. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Some of us have had some extended periods of down time, or have been less productive, both because of the effect of the different pandemic measures all over the world, and because it was at times really hard to stay motivated and find the energy for coding. It feels strange to write that, but it might reassure some of our readers. First off: none of the Krita developers has died this year. The last day of the year… So, let’s look back a bit.
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