KritaCon 2019

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0530

The Krita team - Photo courtesy David Revoy/Krita Foundation - CC-BY

Once again this year, I participated in Krita sprint held at an awesome historical town of Deventer. Thanks to KDEeV and Krita Foundation for sponsoring my stay and travel. I got to meet some old friends again and had a chance to be acquainted with new members of the Krita community. I also feel happy to say that this is so far the biggest Krita sprint in terms of the number of attendees. It shows that our community is growing big rapidly.

5 August

I reached Deventer a bit late in the afternoon on Monday 5th August. I was greeted by some new faces like Emmett, Eoin, Tusooa (who gave an awesome key-chain to everyone) Mariya, Alberto, Noemi and some familiar ones like Wolthera, Stefan, Scott, Tyyppi, Dmitry, and of course the wonderful hosts Boud and Irina.

We had some chat and I took some rest for the day.

6 August

On Tuesday we welcomed some more members. I met with Hellozee, Rebecca, Agata, Ivan and Sara for the first time. I also felt sad that I didn’t get a chance to meet Sharaf Zaman, who has done a wonderful job of porting Krita to Android. Since many people were still on their way and we had postponed the meeting to Thursday, We discussed some issues and kick-started the sprint. I got a chance to test the HDR rig that Boud had set up to test in the cellar. I had some mixed feelings about this, although the monitor had a great range of colors, the brightness was too much for me to handle. I look forward to the day when these monitors become common in the industry and maybe the day when Linux supports HDR monitors :D.

Krita Sprint 2018

Wed, 23 May 2018 12:48:00 +0530

I had an awesome opportunity to be a part of this years Krita sprint in The Netherlands. Once in a while artists and developers who are working in Krita meet to discuss bugs, improvements and road map for Krita. The Sprint was organised by the Krita Foundation and KDE e.V.

I got to meet all the people that I know only by IRC nicknames. Halla and Irina were excellent hosts and made sure that everyone was feeling comfortable. I started working with Wolthera and Timothée, porting the remaining pages of the manual in the tutorial section to Sphinx. We are porting the manual from Media Wiki to Sphinx to make sure you can download the manual in pdf form for offline use.

I met Valarii Malov who is doing an awesome job maintaining the graphics tablet KCM in KDE. . We had some talks and testing of the KCM and believe me the KCM is awesome in its current state, it exposes various setting which was only possible via xsetwacom. This work will help many artists who will use KDE as their distro for daily work.

A big thanks to Timothée for solving my color calibration problem, now my laptop is not blueish and has proper color. I tried to do some portraits and sketches during the sprint. I couldn’t complete all of them but below is a rough portrait of our hosts Halla and Irina.

Sprint on Raghukamath – Digital Painter and Freelance Illustrator from India

KritaCon 2019

5 August

6 August

Krita Sprint 2018