Krita is a powerful, feature-rich digital painting application developed by the KDE community. It provides artists with a comprehensive set of tools for creating digital art, illustrations, concept art, comics, and more. Krita supports both raster and vector graphics, offers a customizable interface, and includes advanced features like brush engines, layer management, and color management tools. It is designed to be intuitive for beginners while offering the depth and flexibility required by professional artists.

Krita AI Diffusion is a plugin that integrates Stable Diffusion AI image generation capabilities directly into Krita, allowing artists to use text prompts, selections, and control layers to inpaint, outpaint, refine, and generate artwork within their familiar Krita workspace. It offers features like live painting previews, upscaling, region-based prompts, and support for various AI models and techniques, all while aiming to seamlessly fit into existing digital painting workflows. AI-Powered Inpainting and Outpainting: Use selections to generate, expand, add or remove content in specific areas of your artwork using text prompts. Live Painting Preview: Get real-time AI interpretations of your canvas as you work, providing immediate visual feedback. Advanced Control Techniques: Utilize ControlNet and IP-Adapter to guide generation with sketches, line art, pose estimation, depth maps, and reference images. Region-Based Text Prompts: Assign different text descriptions to specific areas of the image defined by layers for more precise control. Customizable Workflow Integration: Create custom presets with specific AI models, LoRAs, and sampling settings to fit your unique workflow needs.

Seamless integration with Krita's existing tools and workflow Offers both local processing for privacy and cloud options for accessibility Highly customizable with support for various AI models and techniques Open-source and free to use

Requires significant GPU power for optimal local performance Learning curve to fully utilize all advanced features Dependent on the limitations of current AI image generation technology

Install Krita: Download and install Krita 5.2.0 or newer from krita.org if you haven't already. Download the plugin: Go to the GitHub releases page and download the latest version of the Krita AI Diffusion plugin ZIP file. Install the plugin in Krita: Open Krita and go to Tools > Scripts > Import Python Plugin from File. Select the ZIP file you downloaded to install the plugin. Restart Krita: Close and reopen Krita to activate the newly installed plugin. Enable the plugin docker: Go to Settings > Dockers and enable 'AI Image Generation' to show the plugin interface. Configure the backend: In the plugin docker, click 'Configure' to set up the local ComfyUI server or connect to an existing one. Create or open an image: Start a new document or open an existing image you want to work on. Generate or edit with AI: Use the plugin interface to inpaint, outpaint, upscale, or generate images based on text prompts and selections. Refine results: Iterate on results using Krita's painting tools and the plugin's AI capabilities to refine your image. Explore advanced features: Experiment with ControlNet layers, IP-Adapter, custom models, and other advanced features as you become more familiar with the plugin.