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Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

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Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

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I'm very much an amateur but Krita is a great piece of software for me and does everything I need so far, for free. Much easier to use than GIMP, seems quite comparable to Photoshop and the development is going strong.

It's also neat that they now include by default a lot of the deevad brushes as it's a broad selection. Keep up the good work Krita team.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

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post #15

I'm not an artist. Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Blender is a pretty great combination of tools to wiggle along as a programmer. Congrats on 4.0. Great work.

Blender and Krita are really great. Inkscape is good. I use Gimp also but not because I want to. The others I use because I want to.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

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post #15

I'm not an artist. Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Blender is a pretty great combination of tools to wiggle along as a programmer. Congrats on 4.0. Great work.

Blender and Krita are really great. Inkscape is good. I use Gimp also but not because I want to. The others I use because I want to.

It is really a shame how far behind Gimpo has fallen. I attribute it largely to the mess the GEGL transition caused.

Remember Gimp --> GTK? And Gimp is still limping on Gtk2 and blurry on each and every scaled Wayland installation.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

#24
post #17

Flabbergasting. Krita's development started almost 20 years ago... and it is the first time I ever hear about it.

Here's a list of every release we ever made: https://krita.org/en/krita-releases-overview/

Thanks a lot. This is great — always nice to try new tools.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

#25
post #17

Flabbergasting. Krita's development started almost 20 years ago... and it is the first time I ever hear about it.

It’s often mentioned on HN. That’s how i discovered it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=krita&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

Is there a way to get weekly summary of HN for the top stories? There are probably lots of stories I miss.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

#26
post #15

I'm not an artist. Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Blender is a pretty great combination of tools to wiggle along as a programmer. Congrats on 4.0. Great work.

Blender and Krita are really great. Inkscape is good. I use Gimp also but not because I want to. The others I use because I want to.

How does Krita compare to Photoshop? I use Photoshop Elements 15, which does for me almost all I need. If you go to Expert mode, it's almost like Photoshop CS2 or CS4, except for the bad UI, and I'm sure there are features in CS4 that are missing but that I don't use.

If Krita can replace Photoshop for the most part, it's a good alternative on Linux.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blender and Krita are really great. Inkscape is good. I use Gimp also but not because I want to. The others I use because I want to.

How does Krita compare to Photoshop? I use Photoshop Elements 15, which does for me almost all I need. If you go to Expert mode, it's almost like Photoshop CS2 or CS4, except for the bad UI, and I'm sure there are features in CS4 that are missing but that I don't use. If Krita can replace Photoshop for the most part, it's a good alternative on Linux.

Krita is centered around digital illustration and painting. It can't really compete with Photoshop's advanced computer vision features like healing brush, quick selection tool and 3d panorama editing. But if you just need to do some color correction and light airbrushing, it can be used instead of Photoshop.

Also, if you can put up with the UI for the plugin, the G'MIC filters contain some cool stuff. You can do frequency separation and content aware fill.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blender and Krita are really great. Inkscape is good. I use Gimp also but not because I want to. The others I use because I want to.

It is really a shame how far behind Gimpo has fallen. I attribute it largely to the mess the GEGL transition caused. Remember Gimp --> GTK? And Gimp is still limping on Gtk2 and blurry on each and every scaled Wayland installation.

You can build the gtk3 dev branch of gimp and it does kinda work :D

meanwhile Krita: "We can probably postpone worrying about Wayland on Linux for another year" https://krita.org/en/about/krita-roadmap-2017-2019/ >_<

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

#29
post #17

Flabbergasting. Krita's development started almost 20 years ago... and it is the first time I ever hear about it.

My impression is that the American software community sometimes doesn't pay much attention to what's coming out of Europe. Have a look at other KDE-based programs if you haven't already - IME KVirc, Kile, KTorrent, and indeed Konqueror and KMail are best-in-class.

Re: Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

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post #25
post #17

Flabbergasting. Krita's development started almost 20 years ago... and it is the first time I ever hear about it.

It’s often mentioned on HN. That’s how i discovered it. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=krita&sort=byPopularity&prefix... Is there a way to get weekly summary of HN for the top stories? There are probably lots of stories I miss.

There is Hacker Newsletter which sends a weekly summary of top stories:

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

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