Krita - Accelerate Development - Crowdsourcing funds

[anandrkris]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kr ... erate-deve Krita, Open-source painting application needs your generosity

Krita is the leading, professional-level open source digital painting application. Help us add 24 (or more!) powerful new features....

Goals

We've defined 24 goals! Each goal will take approximately two weeks to be implemented, or 1250 euros. The goals have been carefully selected and ranked by artists in the Krita community. So in six months we can do twelve goals, requiring 15,000 Euro!

[anandrkris]

http://dimula73.blogspot.in/2014/06/kri ... tures.html

During the first week of our Kickstarter campaign we collected more than 6500 eur, which is about 43% of the goal. That is quite a good result, so we decided to start implementing the features right now, even though the campaign is not finished yet :)I started to work on three low-hanging fruits in parallel: perspective transformation of the image basing on vanishing points, editing of the global selection and enhanced isolate layer mode.

It turned out that the vanishing point problem is not so "low-hanging" as I thought in the beginning, so right now I'm in the middle of my way of searching the math solution for it: to provide this functionality to the user the developer must find right perspective transformation matrix basing only on points in the two coordinate systems. This problem is inverse to what everyone is accustomed to solve at school This is quite interesting ans challenging task and I'm sure we will solve it soon!

Until I found the solution for maths task, I decided to work on small enhancements of our Isolate Layer mode. We have this feature already for a long time, but it was too complicated to use because the only way to activate it was to select "Isolate Layer" item in the right-click menu. Now this problem is gone! You can just press Alt key and click of the layer or mask in the Layers docker. This enables many great use cases for artists, which now can be done with a single Alt-click:

1. Show/Edit the contents of a single layer, without other layers interferring

• Show/Edit the masks. This includes Selection Masks, so you can edit non-global selections very easily (modifying global selections will be simplified later)

• Inspect all the layers you have by simply switching between them and looking into their contents in isolated environment

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[anandrkris]

€12,452 pledged of €15,000 goal and 12 days to go...Looks close.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kr ... deve/posts

[anandrkris]

€18,160 pledged of €15,000 goal ! Only c.20 hours left. See below for summary of what has happened since funding began...
https://krita.org/index.php/item/243-only-34-hours-left
There is also paypal donation option available in krita homepage.