If you find it easier to work with but still you prefer Adobe Illustrator, then you can easily export your file in Illustrator file format and import it on Illustrator later. It is obviously one of the best Linux tools for digital artists around that are actively developed. The user interface offered here may not be much of attraction, but it is simply darn good with the powerful features and tools offered. You can have it installed on your Linux system as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator. It is an open source vector graphics editor. For more info, you can try heading to Krita’s download page. You can grab the snap from Ubuntu’s software center, or you could download an AppImage and make it executable to install further. No wonder this French university dumped Adobe Photoshop for Krita. It can import a lot of files, but it has discontinued support for PSD files.įeatures and usability are the strong point of Krita. It brings in a good collection of filters to choose from and also provides the ability to control layers in an image just like Adobe Photoshop. It is similarly extensible with the use of plugins or extensions.

Recently, it introduced render animation capability, full support for OSX, enhanced color picker and more. Also, you could argue that Krita provides a better user interface compared to GIMP. It definitely offers a range of features and is constantly developing as we talk. However, more focused for use by illustrators, cartoonists, and concept drawing artists. To our surprise, it still is not like GIMP.

However, it turned out to have a lot more potential to be an independent desktop application competing with programs like GIMP. Krita was meant as an add-on with KOffice to facilitate image editing within the suite of office tools. Yet another impressive Linux tool for digital artists.

Open source vector graphics program