The KOffice 2.0 beta, part 2: Graphical and charting programs
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 82.210.124.225]
on October 10, 2008 04:46 PM
Well... Krita had masks and layer groups in 1.6, too, those features aren't new :-) But there are a lot of really important innovations and improvements in Krita 2.0, unfortunately, personal reasons made development slow last year -- everything is implemented, but nearly nothing works completely correctly right now: these are very early betas. So, let's see what's new and what should work when Krita 2.0 is released:
* dynamic masks: masks can be associated with filters, transparency and possibly even transformations
* shape layers: krita can embed rich text objects that stay editable, as well as arbitrarily complex vector objects
* resolution
* openctl: handling floating point colorspaces the right way
* macro recording
* complex brush engines (like a hairy brush engine)
* colorspaces that mix colours like you learned in kindergarten
* openraster -- an attempt at arriving at a layered raster graphics interchange file format
* filters written in opengl shader language
* brush preset management
* metadata support
* magnetic painting guides
And probably a lot of things I've already forgotten. If we get everything stable and debugged, this release is going to rock. But back to debugging :-)
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The KOffice 2.0 beta, part 2: Graphical and charting programs
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.210.124.225] on October 10, 2008 04:46 PM* dynamic masks: masks can be associated with filters, transparency and possibly even transformations
* shape layers: krita can embed rich text objects that stay editable, as well as arbitrarily complex vector objects
* resolution
* openctl: handling floating point colorspaces the right way
* macro recording
* complex brush engines (like a hairy brush engine)
* colorspaces that mix colours like you learned in kindergarten
* openraster -- an attempt at arriving at a layered raster graphics interchange file format
* filters written in opengl shader language
* brush preset management
* metadata support
* magnetic painting guides
And probably a lot of things I've already forgotten. If we get everything stable and debugged, this release is going to rock. But back to debugging :-)
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