Filter layers by color – You can choose to only see all blue layers, or green layers, or only blue and green layers with layer filtering.

Color Coding – Right-clicking a layer gives you the ability to color code a layer.

Clearer Layers – Condensed layers means you can see more at a time.

This new look comes with some additional functionality. From this, we updated the entire layers docker. We spent a long time discussing the most important parts to managing layers and what needs to be seen. User Interface Improvements for Layer Management

Group multiple layers – Or create Clipping Groups or just ungrouping with hotkeys.

Mass editing layer properties – Instantly rename multiple layers, or change their blending mode, or opacity, or any other property.Quick select layers – Select All/Visible/Locked layers, or select them on-canvas via Shift+R+Click.We spent this release expanding this functionality with moving, on canvas-selecting, merging, duplicating and more! Multi-Layer Mania – Krita 2.9 had multi-layer selection and dragging and dropping.Simplified merging – One hotkey to rule them all!.Spriter scml exporter – Make the base image in Krita and then export it to this powerful cut-out animation tool for games.CSV import and export – for layered animation, for use with TV-paint, or Blender via a plugin, courtesy of Laszlo Fazekas.New dockers – timeline docker, animation docker, and animation workspace.Exporting image sequence – Export the whole animation as an image sequence, for further processing in other programs.Importing image sequence – Import any set of images as an animated layer, automatically sorted by naming scheme.Onion skinning – This allows you to have an overlay of the previous and next frames, an important assistant when going from rough animation to smooth animation!.Works in all color spaces and depths as well! Animatable raster layers – Animated raster images with frames, and use the time-line docker to order them.Multiple layers, all sorts of playback speeds, onion skinning, on top of all of Krita’s existing paint tools: It’s enough to make any animator’s fingers itch!

You can now do proper frame-by-frame animation in Krita.

Paint tool sai animation