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[UPDATE:] Link to recorded episode is live!
FLOSS Weekly Episode 324: Krita


Just a quick shout for anyone who missed the announcement on the Krita Twitter feed - Boud will be joining the LIVE Floss Weekly today (Wednesday) at 08:30 PST (in about 15min!)

We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Randal Schwartz and his rotating panel of co-hosts every Wednesday as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.

There is now a new "desktop29" entry in "Betas", which has the very latest build of Krita Desktop 2.9 Beta 2 if you fancy trying it out :D

There are lots of nice features in 2.9 - the big change that you'll see is that now Krita opens multiple images in the same window and there are number of tabs above the canvas as you create new or open other images. It also allows you to open multiple different views of the same image. Under Settings->"Configure Krita" you'll see an option for "Multiple Document Mode" which lets you choose between the tabbed layout or sub-windows.

You will also see that there have been improvements in memory handling, brush response and shortcut handling.
A much more detailed list is available via the announcement on the Krita website.

If you want to try it out now, either:

• Follow the instructions How to enable the Beta branch, substituting "desktop29" instead of "beta" - this will replace your Krita Gemini 2.8 installation with Krita Desktop 2.9, but will continue to take advantage of the steam cloud saving of settings.
  
• Download the latest build of as an installer or ZIP file from http://files.kde.org/krita/windows/ - if you scroll to the bottom of the list you should fine the latest builds (currently krita_x64_2.8.91.2)
  

You may want to make a back-up copy of your current settings (just in case - though it appears to behave with the two installations) which can typically found in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\krita. You can find this by navigating in File Explorer or by opening the resources folder using the Edit->Resources menu.

Hope you have fun, any questions/problems/suggestions, feel free to add them to the Betas forum or the Krita Desktop 2.9 Beta discussion.

We're thrilled that Krita received the Artist Choice award in the January 2015 issue of ImagineFX!

It's also been fun to see a lot of new visitors to Krita.org from a related blog post on Creative Bloq

In the meantime, the team are hard at work on Krita 2.9 and we can't wait to show you the improvements :)