Sponsored Development

Krita has sponsored development since 2009. Sponsoring development has proven to be a great way to accelerate Krita's development and growth -- both when it comes to creating an energetic contributor community with a healthy combination of sponsored and volunteer contributors and when it comes to giving more and more artists a great tool.

Developers have been sponsored through donations, sponsored projects working together with companies like Intel or the Blender Studio and through sales of Krita in app stores.

2021

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to work on Krita full-time. In 2021 he mainly focused on the smudge brush performance and smudge brush features..
• Sharaf Zaman was sponsored to bring Krita to Android and ChromeOS
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to replace the exisiting resource management system and to manage the project
• Agata Cacko was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving stability and to work on the resource management system.
• Ivan Yossi was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving Krita on macOS and improving stability.
• Emmet O'Neill was sponsored to work on Krita to improve Krita's animation feature.
• Eoin O'Neill was sponsored to work on Krita to improve Krita's animation feature.
• Ramon Miranda was sponsored to create new brush presets
• Amyspark was sponsored to work on Krita, improving the build system and handling of colorspaces
• Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier was sponsored to work on color management projects and on improving the manual.
• Timothée Giet was sponsored to work on new icons

2020

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to work on Krita
• Sharaf Zaman was sponsored to maintain Krita on Android and ChromeOS
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to replace the exisiting resource management system and to manage the project
• Agata Cacko was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving stability.
• Ivan Yossi was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving Krita on macOS and improving stability.
• Emmet O'Neill was sponsored to work on Krita to improve Krita's animation feature.
• Eoin O'Neill was sponsored to work on Krita to improve Krita's animation feature.
• Ramon Miranda was sponsored to create new brush presets
• Amyspark was sponsored to work on Krita, improving the build system and handling of colorspaces
• Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier was sponsored to work on color management projects and on improving the manual.

2019

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving stability and improving HDR support.
• Ivan Yossi was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving Krita on macOS and improving stability.
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving stability and managing the project.
• Agata Cacko was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving stability.
• Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier was sponsored to work on color management projects, file format compatibility improvements and on improving the manual.

2018

• Jouni Pentikäinen was sponsored to implement the workspace and sessions feature in Krita through a project sponsored by Intel. Jouni also implemented the reference image tool.
• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to implement support for HDR image creating and editing in Krita through a project sponsored by Intel.
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to work on Krita full-time for improving stability and managing the project.
• David Revoy was sponsored to refactor the default brushes presets for Krita 4

2017

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to implement optimizations to rendering animations and to the brush engines by using multithreading and processor vectorizations extensions through a project sponsored by Intel. through a project sponsored by Intel. Dmitry was also sponsored to implement improved text and vector features.
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to implement the scripting API and Python integration.
• Timothée Giet was sponsored to work on the training Videos "Animate with Krita"

2016

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to work on the animation feature and on improving Krita's performance though the 2015 Kickstarter.
• Halla Rempt was sponsored in the second half of 2016 to improve the scripting engine.

2015

• Dmitry was sponsored to work on Krita full-time. Dmitry continued working on the kickstarter goals.
• Jouni Pentikäinen was sponsored to make the animation feature in Krita production ready.
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to port Krita to Qt5. Halla also worked on stability.
• Timothée Giet was sponsored to create the training DVD "Secrets of Krita"

2014

• Dmitry was sponsored to work on Krita full-time implementing the features selected in the first Krita Kickstarter: improving the quality of lines, Photoshop layer styles, improved anti-aliasing of the transform tool, implement perspective transform, make it easier to create masks, create a non-destructive transform mask, add liquify and cage transform to the transform tool, implement vector object scaling, add shaped gradients, add transparency masks and improve the smudge brush.
• Halla Rempt was sponsored to work on implementing the MDI window.
• Arjen Hiemstra, Leinir Tuthra Jensen, Stuart Dickson and Halla Rempt were sponsored by KO GmbH to work on the hybrid version of Krita, Krita Gemini.

2013

• Dmitry was sponsored to work on Krita full-time. In 2013, Dmitry resolved 266 issues. He improved the transform tool, implement line smoothing and stabilization,
• Arjen Hiemstra, Leinir Tuthra Jensen, Stuart Dickson and Halla Rempt were sponsored by KO GmbH to create the hybrid version of Krita, Krita Gemini.

2012

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to work on Krita part-time. In the run up to Krita 2.4, the first version of Krita 2 that was ready for artists, Dmitry worked on all parts of the code, fixing nearly hundred issues.
• Arjen Hiemstra, Leinir Tuthra Jensen, Stuart Dickson, : Timothée Giet and Halla Rempt were sponsored by KO GmbH to create the tablet version of Krita, Krita Sketch.

2011

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to work on Krita part-time. He mainly worked on the internal data structures for storing image data, making Krita capable of handling much bigger images.
• Timothée Giet was sponsored to create the first training DVD for Krita: Comics with Krita.

2010

• Dmitry Kazakov was sponsored to implement a new GPU accelerated canvas, canvas rotation, canvas mirroring and improved the transform tool and move tool.
• Lukáš Tvrdý was sponsored to work on Krita improving Krita's performance.

Highlights:

• Huge performance boosts
• Wrote, integrated and/or improved many features into the Pixel Brush: Custom and Predefined brushes, Soft and Gaussian modes for the autobrush, density, scatter, HSV dynamics, Airbrush mode, sharpness and more
• Many improvements to other brushes: Deform brush, Smudge brush, Hairy brush, Spray brush and more
• New brush: Sketch brush
• Support for Photoshop and Gimp brushes
• Global pressure mapping and dynamic brush outlines
• Many bug fixes

2009

The first developer to be sponsored by the Krita community was Lukáš Tvrdý. In 2009, Krita was critically buggy and slow after the port from Qt3 to Qt4, and Lukáš focused on fixing bugs.