It allows you a fine control and flexibility on transparencies, selections, and possibility to reuse mask. It's now possible to paint transparency mask using black&white (and all the gradients of grey). Krita layer stack received also a major feature with the 2.7 release. It can be easily compared to the 'stability' feature found on other proprietary software, just with more control on the sliders and not only a range of stabilization presets. This feature was a long waited feature by comics and anime artist you can now setup smoothing methods to your strokes, so your line-art will appear less 'shacky' and smoother, even with a small tablet and a thin brush preset. More details of all the features of this tool on the demo video I did bellow. If you have a lucky high CPU, it will perform complex resize and rotation of high-res layers in the blink of an eye. And by really fast, I mean the fastest on-canvas of all the open-source raster image program I know. The transform tool received a lot of improvements, and now can perform really complex task and really fast. I'm really happy with this feature, and that's probably because I could help describing the effect I was looking for, and had a result perfectly adapted for my workflow. All my textures pack ressources has also been added by default into Krita. Combining the texture with the pressure of the stylus in subtract or multiply mode, you'll be able to give more life to your strokes, set a cut off and a scaling to better simulate paper grains, canvas pattern, and other textured effects. The pixel brush and the smudge brush engine among other 'pixel based' brush-engines get a new feature the possibility to add a 'texture' blended in the strokes. And about promoting, feel free to reuse this pictures and text, they are published here under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. I also hope to share my passion about this amazing software and promote the cool work made by the passionate development team. So, I gather rather well all this kind of informations and time now is to share what happened the last 6 months. You might not ignore I'm connected everyday to the IRC krita chat channel and I am also reading every days the last GIT repository comments and build the last code, and I also fill as much as I can the bug tracker. I focused myself while writing this article on making a review with screenshots (click them to enlarge them) of the new features to help other users to keep track of the changes. To be fair an amazing amount compare to the small team size and other projects I keep watching. This new version, coming only 6 month after the last 2.6 brings a lot of new fix and features. At the mid summer of 2013, a snapshot of the Krita code project -my main digital-painting tool- has been released under the version numbering 2.7.
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