Krita 4.3 - Gimp 2.10.20 released

Three months after the release of Krita 4.2.9, we’ve got a major new feature release for you: Krita 4.3.0! We’ve spent the past year not just fixing bugs, even though we fixed over a thousand issues, but have also been busy adding cool new stuff to play with.

There’s a whole new set of brush presets that evoke watercolor painting. There’s a color mode in the gradient map filter and a brand new palettize filter and a high pass filter. The scripting API has been extended. It’s now possible to adjust the opacity and lightness on colored brush tips separately. You can now create animated brush tips that select brush along multiple dimensions. We’ve made it possible to put the canvas area in a window of its own, so on a multi monitor setup, you can have all the controls on one monitor, and your images on the other. The color selector has had a big update. There’s a new snapshot docker that stores states of your image, and you can switch between those. There’s a brand new magnetic selection tool. Gradients can now be painting as spirals.

GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.

Release highlights:

• Tool-group menus can now expand on hover
• Non-destructive cropping now available by cropping the canvas rather than actual pixels
• Better PSD support: exporting of 16-bit files now available, reading/writing channels in the right order
• On-canvas controls for the Vignette filter
• [New filters: Bloom, Focus Blur, Lens Blur, Variable Blur
• Blending options now built into filter dialogs
• Over 30 bugfixes