Category Archives: Krita

Krita is an open source drawing, painting and picture manipulation application.

Institut de la Francophonie numérique sponsoring offer to travel to Libre Graphics Meeting

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

L’Institut de la Francophonie numérique is sponsoring travel and lodging to the Libre Graphics Meeting in Bruxelles on 27-30 May, for people from one of the country of francophonie, that are not France: Albanie, Arménie, Bénin, Bulgarie, Burkina Faso, Burundi, … Continue reading →

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Krita, a painting application, not really new news

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

The time when Krita was borne as KImageShop, as a Gimp-for-KDE is long gone. Not sure when this idea was killed, but it is clear that it has never really be the intention of the current team. The ambiguity of … Continue reading →

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Krita’s Hackfest, meeting with the Blender guys

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

During this week, Boudewijn is hosting Sven, Lukas and me for a Krita hackfest, dedicated to bug fixing, performance, UI improvement. Among the major improvements brought by that week are improvement in the memory consumption, thanks to a collaboration between … Continue reading →

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Krita Meeting 2010 – Day 1

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

Today was the first real day of the Meeting, we met again in the basement of the Church to be in a place without any possible distraction, and to discuss the vision of Krita, and what we want Krita to … Continue reading →

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Krita Meeting 2010 – Day -1

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

Today right after breakfast with Lukas and Boudewijn and one of his daughter, we got an electricity cut. So when Dmitry arrived from his hotel, despite heavy rain, we decided to go out for a walk in the city, to … Continue reading →

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Krita Meeting 2010 – Day -2

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Cyrille Berger

After being blocked for three hours at Göteborg’s airport due to bad weather condition with heavy snow fall. I was genuinely impressed by KLM paying us a meal and give us a reduction for the next ticket, which covers almost … Continue reading →

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Discussing Krita, digital painting with David Revoy

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Cyrille Berger

For the next releases of Krita, we decided to pick up a specific artist, with a specific work flow, and to implement and fix the issue that he needs. For 2.2 (and probably 2.3), we have chosen David Revoy who … Continue reading →

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KOffice 2.2 Release Schedule

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Cyrille Berger

One of the outcome of the meeting in Oslo was to take the final decision on the KOffice 2.2 release schedule. Following the current trend of a six months release schedule, therefor the 2.2 RC1 is planned for April, 27th … Continue reading →

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KOffice Fall Meeting 2009 – Day 2

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Cyrille Berger

People are almost already gone, or are about to leave (myself I am leaving the office in an hour or so). The office is getting empty, the discussion are fading away. But today, started by a presentation from Jos of … Continue reading →

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About Krita and Gimp, in default installation

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Cyrille Berger

The removal of GIMP from the default installation of Ubuntu has raised quiet a stir. And as drawn quiet a bit of advertisement for Krita, as some people suggested the use of Krita instead, but for no good reasons, since … Continue reading →

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