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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, April 22, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.

Krita Foundation offers the Fast Sketch Cleanup Plugin, an experimental tool that uses a neural network to automatically convert a hand-drawn sketch into cleaned-up line art, helping artists with the inking step of their workflow. The plugin was developed in partnership with Intel and first released in December 2024.

Details

The plugin takes a raster image of a hand-drawn sketch as input and produces a new layer containing cleaned-up, inked-style lines. It uses a convolutional neural network model trained by the Krita team exclusively on artwork donated by community members. The model runs entirely on the user's local machine — no internet connection, server, or account is required. As of February 2025, an updated version (1.1.0) was released with an improved interface, pre- and post-processing options, and support for custom models. The plugin is described as still experimental and available for Windows and Linux.

Products affected

Krita (Fast Sketch Cleanup Plugin)

Sources & Evidence

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Trace Foundation. (2026). Krita Foundation: Krita Foundation offers the Fast Sketch Cleanup Plugin, an experimental tool that uses a neural network to automatically convert a hand-drawn sketch into cleaned-up line art, helping artists with the inking step of their workflow. The plugin was developed in partnership with Intel and first released in December 2024 (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/1cd7a692-807c-418c-807d-b981ac5a2a6a. Accessed September 10, 2026.

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https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/1cd7a692-807c-418c-807d-b981ac5a2a6a
Data as of
April 22, 2026
Last verified
April 22, 2026

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