Krita for Mac

What's new in this version:

Text Tool:
- The text tool has been fully overhauled for 5.3! The main attraction is of course that text can now be edited directly on canvas, with full support for the usual keyboard and mouse interactions, as well as IME support. But we did not stop there! Lets go over some of the highlights:
Wrapped Text, Text in shape and Text on Path:
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- Krita now has the ability to make auto wrapped text. You can drag an area to create a simple inline wrapping area, or click on a shape to have the text flow inside. In conformance with SVG 2, the text flow area can be composed of multiple shapes, with some adding and others subtracting from the final flow area.
- Aside from wrapped text, you can also set the text to follow a path, as well as control the start position

Text Properties Docker:
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- The text properties docker allows you to style the text. This separate docker allows not only editing the current text selected with the text tool, but also multiple texts when selected with the shape selection tools. To ensure you do not get lost inside the list of 50+ editable properties, Krita will by default hide properties that have not been set on the selected text or its paragraph. You can configure the visibility rules of each of these to your liking, allowing you to hide properties you never use, or show all properties regardless.
- A large part of the work on this was the font selector, as this required special indexing of the fonts on your system. Due this work, you can now select all types of fonts, from obscure postscript to modern opentype variable fonts (all axes included) inside the font selector. Beyond that, fonts are now resources can be tagged, searched, and will show localized names (and samples) if these were present inside the font.
- With 50+ properties, it can be hard to remember your favourites. To this end, Krita now also has style presets, which allow you to quickly apply a selection of properties to the current text, or use them as a base for new text.

Glyph Palette:
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- Another new addition is the glyph palette. The glyph palette allows you to select alternate glyphs that may be present in the currently used font. While the text properties docker allows configuring all the OpenType features in a font, the glyph palette is far more convenient. Furthermore, it allows selecting unicode character variations, which will be doubly handy for those typesetting in CJK scripts.

Type Setting Mode:
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- In addition to the Text Properties Docker, you can edit a number of properties on-canvas with the new Type Setting Mode. This separate mode in the text tool provides controls to edit Font Size, Baseline Shift, Line Height and Dominant Baseline directly on canvas. When text is not auto-wrapped, you can even edit the position of every single glyph in detail!

Miscellaneous:
- All properties were given a bit of polish, which means that Krita has full support for CSS-Inline-3 Dominant and Alignment baseline. These properties are useful for configuring the alignment of text of different sizes when they are in scripts like Devanagari or Han script.
- The new text widgets are in QML, our first foray into modern QML
- As a side effect of the text work, vector shape editing is now a little faster, and select all/deselect now work in all vector tools
- Similarly, we now support SVG 2 paint-order property, which allows the outlines to be drawn behind the text

Tools:
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- A new Comic Panel Editing tool was added (MR 2331, manual). With this tool, you can split and merge vector objects quickly, making it easy to set up panel layouts for comics.
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- Free transform bounding box rotation (MR 2113, manual) — Our transform tool draws a bounding box around the selected area. However, this was always in the direction of the pixels, which can be quite cumbersome when transforming a picture drawn at an angle. You can now rotate the transform bounding box with Ctrl + Alt to fit the visual angle of the selection you are transforming.
- Liquify Transform Mode speedups (MR 2461 — The liquify mode in the transforms tool was greatly sped up
- Adjust smoothing based on stroke speed (MR 2192, manual) — This allows you to reduce smoothing of a stroke with the speed. The idea is that most jitters happen when drawing slowly, so naturally the smoothing needs to be higher when the brush stroke takes longer. Conversely, fast brush strokes need less smoothing.
- Pixelart smoothing mode (MR 2158, manual) — Ken Lo's 2024 Google Summer of Code project, the pixel art stablizer provides better results when drawing with a single pixel line.
- Selection toolbar (MR 2422, manual — Ross Rosales' 2025 Google Summer of Code project, the selection toolbar provides a floating bar for when a selection is active.
- Multibrush has gained a 'Copy Translate at Intervals' mode (MR 1968, manual) — This allows drawing multiple brushes at set intervals.
- Improved number inputs in the shape selection tool (MR 2199) — You can now right-click these to set the units
- Three examples, first a line art with gaps, second without close gaps enabled, third with close gaps enabled. The second image is fully red, while the third only has red inside the perceived outline.
- The fill tool also got some love, now sporting Close Gaps functionality (MR 2050 and MR 2079, manual), which allows it to close gaps in the line work when determining the area to fill

Assistants:
- Sketch of a composition of blocks with the new curve linear perspective filter
- Configuration of the assistant widgets (MR 1966) — The on canvas widget for the assistants have been overhauled, and a duplication function has been added.
- Curvelinear perspective assistant. (MR 1960 and MR 2055, manual) — The curve linear assistant is an alternative to the fish-eye point assistant, and uses arcs instead of ellipses.
- Propagate Colors Filter has been added. This filter makes it so that an image with colors and transparency is modified to have its colors expand into the transparent areas. Such a thing is very useful for 3D and game texture workflows. There transparency often needs to be handled as a separate texture, and when the colors have been prepared with this filter, it reduces the chance of alignment issues between the transparency and the colors.
- Reset Transparent (MR 1860, manual — A filter related to the above. In the case that a transparent pixel has values, using reset transparent allows you to set all fully transparent pixels to be transparent black.
- All our blending modes got double checked for HDR support. Previously, Krita would sometimes clip high range colors when doing compositing with a given blending mode, even if the blending mode supported it. Now, every blend mode that supports HDR will do so. (MR 2294)
- Fast Color Overlay Mask. A filter that colorizes a sketch with a given color. This is different from the existing HSV filter, as it is optimized for speed and quick use, with a special button on the layer docker. This will be useful for artists preparing their sketch for inking. (MR 2285, 2318, 2303 and 2282, manual)
- Transform shortcuts now work on multiple layers. When using the Mirror, Rotate, Scale, Shear and Offset layer shortcuts while multiple layers are selected, all layers will be transformed (MR 1811).

Dockers:
- Real Time Capture Mode for the Recorder Docker. Previously, the recorder docker would only capture once every few frames for performance reasons. Now, multi-threaded capturing has been added to the docker, allowing for real time recording (MR 2010).
- Dockers can now be added to the pop-up palette. This replaces the on canvas brush editor, which in turn has been changed into a docker. As well, dockers can now also be added as a popup in the toolbar, by adding the "Docker Box" to the toolbar (MR 2062, MR 2104).
- Various improvements have been made to the Grids and Guides. In particular a new Isometric mode, which is a little bit more predictable to use, and can be used for hexagonal grids. Grid and guides color configuration is now saved to the document. And finally, there's the ability to turn off either the horizontal or vertical lines in the rectangular grid, allowing for a grid that is a mere line pattern. (MR 2090, manual)

Brushes:
- Two new improvements were added for working with textures in the brushes
- Soft texturing mode for the Pattern option (MR 2068, manual) — By default, Krita's texturing option uses the strength and pattern options together to limit the brush by the pattern, based on the strength. This gives a nice textured stroke, much like using a dry brush on a textured piece of paper in real life. The new Soft Texturing mode switches the behaviour of strength, making it instead control how much the pattern has effect on the brush, with at low values the pattern being invisible. This is more akin to switching between a wet and a dry brush over time.
- Pattern 'Auto Invert For Eraser' (MR 2264) — When working with the texture option, you might want to keep the texture cohesive, even as you erase. For this reason, we've now added the "Auto Invert For Eraser", which'll invert the texture as you switch to erase mode.
- Corner mode for curves (MR 2191, manual) — Krita's brush engine uses curves extensively to configure the effects of various sensors on the brush. By default, the points on this curve are smooth cubic curves, which is useful in most cases. However, sometimes you want a little bit more control, so Krita 5.3 now comes with the ability to make sharp corners by Ctrl + clicking a given node. Filters using curves also benefit from this feature.

Example of Marker mode in use, left is Normal, right is Marker:
- Marker blend mode (MR 2375, manual) — a blend mode that prevents building up opacity across multiple strokes. When used with build-up painting mode, this gives the same effect as the same mode in Drawpile or the marker tool in other programs. Unlike Greater, Marker still blends colors normally even when it doesn't change the opacity of what's on the layer.