Krita 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

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We're getting closer and closer to releasing Krita 3.0, the first version of Krita that includes animation tools, instant preview and which is based on Qt5! Today's release candidate offers many fixes and improvements over the previous beta releases. The Animation and Instant Preview features were funded by last year's successful Kickstarter, and right now we're running our third Kickstarter campaign: this year's main topics are creating a great text and vector toolset. After one week, we're already half-way!

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The biggest new feature is no doubt support for hand-drawn animation. This summer, Jouni Pentikäinen will continue improving the animation tools, but it's already a solid toolset. Here's a video tutorial where Wolthera shows how she created the animated headers for this year's Kickstarter stretch goals:

And here is another demonstration by Wolthera showing off the Instant Preview feature, which makes it possible to use big brushes on big canvases. It may take a bit more memory, but it gives a huge speed boost:

Apart from Instant Preview, Animation, Qt5-support, Krita 3.0 will have a number of Kickstarter stretch goals, like improved layer handling, improved shortcuts, the tangent normal brush, and great colorspace selector, guides, a grids and guides docker, snapping to grids and guides, improved shortcut palette, gradient map filter and much, much, much more. And we'll be sure to fix more issues before we present the final release.

So check out the review prepared by Nathan Lovato, while we're preparing the full release announcement:

Release Candidate 3 Improvements

Compared to the last beta, we've got the following improvements:

And a load of smaller things!

Downloads

Windows Shell Extension package by Alvin Wong. Just install it and Windows Explorer will start showing preview and meta information for Krita files. (Disregard any warnings by virus checkers, because this package is built with the NSIS installer maker, some virus checkers always think it’s infected, it’s not.)

Windows: Unzip and run the bin/krita.exe executable! These downloads do not interfere with your existing installation. The configuration file location has been moved from %APPDATA%\Local\kritarc to %APPDATA%\Local\krita\kritarc.

The OSX disk image still has the known issue that if OpenGL is enabled, the brush outline cursor, grids, guides and so on are not visible. We’re working on that, but don’t expect to have rewritten the canvas before 3.0 will be released. Disable OpenGL in the preferences dialog to see a cursor outline, grids and guides and so on.

**The Linux appimage:**After downloading, make the appimage executable and run it. No installation is needed. For CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12.04, a separate appimage is provided with g’mic built without OpenMP (which makes it much slower)

As usual, you can use these builds without affecting your 2.9 installation.

Source: you can find the source here: