Krita Image manipulation and paint application

Krita is an advanced and modular paint and image manipulation application. Krita is built around two core libraries: pigment and kritaimage.

The pigment library abstracts colorspaces and color transformations. ColorSpaces provide functions to manipulate pixels. The kritcolor library loads colorspace plugins to extend the range of available colorspaces. Pigment is part of the KOffice libraries.

The kritaimage library abstracts the storage, creation, inspection and manipulation of pixels stored in a rectangular area. It provides layers, filters, iterators and painters. Filters and paint operations are provided as service plugins loaded through the appropriate trader queries.

Both libraries are used by the user interface, which is a KOffice part. the user interface loads tools and other plugins.

There are the following types of plugins

• filters
• tools
• paintops
• colorspaces
• file filters
• view plugins

Of these, file filters exist outside the Krita tree and colorspaces depend only on pigment, which is also outside krita itself. Please consult the plugin writers' manual for more information.