

This means that you will need to find a good place to stick your frames before you can start rendering. For example, if your computer has a hiccup, and one frame saves out weird, first saving the image sequence allows you to only resave that one weird frame before rendering. The reason for this two-step process is that animation files can be really complex and really big, and this is the best way to allow you to keep control over the export process. It replaces Export Animation.įor rendering to an animated file format, Krita will first render to a PNG sequence and then use FFmpeg, which is really good at encoding into video files, to render that sequence to an animated file format. While these are all kind of minor gripes I find the lack of polish on basic features in all the years this application has been sat in my library disappointing.Render animation allows you to render your animation to an image sequence. Microsoft Paint has a better Text tool than Krita. Can't resize text boxes, nor do they respect white space and they require typing in a separate window which by default takes up half the screen. Krita is happy to dump scale/rotate/position/shear under the Transform tool though. Move tool is smart enough to tell you when you can't use it on vectors/layers but not smart enough to switch between them or just be one utility that lets you work on both.

Two sets of tools for making polygonal selections and brush strokes instead of just making them toggles. Granted, I'm not a painter and these applications serve different niches but for basic colorization of lineart and image manipulation it seems like it should be able to handle these better. Got Krita because competition in open source image software is great but every time I give Krita a chance I'm left disappointed at how inferior I find it compared to GNU Image Manipulation Program.
