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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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Post by antoineMoPa »

headsoup wrote: post #21

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.

I'd say krita and gimp fill different needs. Krita is for artists and Gimp is like Linux's MS paint on steroids. I frequently use Gimp to crop images, make memes, etc. When I used to draw with my wacom tablet, krita was the tool of choice.

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

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Post by nnq »

kriro wrote: 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.

Gimp and Inkscape are both extremely sub-par apps... Paint.NET beats Gimp in usability, Photoshop in both features and stability. Last time I tried to use Gimp for anything mildly complex (heavy usage of cage distort on a high res pic with quite a few layers) it crashed every 10min (though I was told it was the fault of the Ubuntu packaged, it's not acceptable to make a clusterfuck of the versions targetting the most widely used Linux distro!). Inkscape is horribly unstable once you try to draw anything slightly complex that involves heavy usage of masks and your number of paths/shapes get close/over 100. Its popular though since Cored Draw is no longer a thing, and Adobe Illustrator has horrible UX for anyone not using it full-time/professionally.

Linux desktop desperately needs:

1. a good raster photo editor with non-destructive editing capabilities

2. a good vector graphics app - Inkscape could be it, but it would need heavy work on stabilizing it, and UI improvements around anything involving mask (though to honest the bar is low here, Illustrator has horrible UI around masking to)

If anyone can do these things well, I'd suggest a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter or something. Lots of people will throw money at anyone who can produce something intuitive and stable! Not need for tons of features, just make it fast and stable, and someone will add on. And using a "hipster" new language like Rust would also help the project's popularity with new developers... few people are willing to hack on an open source project for the "fun" of improving their C/C++ skills nowadays...

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

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Post by stuaxo »

jhoechtl wrote: post #23
bringtheaction wrote: post #22

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.

Yup - it turns out pulling out the core of your graphics in a graphics programme can take a lot of time to get right (certainly took years in my own small project).

Who knows, maybe GIMP will jump straight to Gtk4.

There's a good roundup of happenings in 2017 in GIMP here:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/31/gimp-and-gegl-in-2017/

[EDIT] There are links in the above doc to sponsor GEGL developers [/EDIT]

It's encouraging that GEGL is seeing use in other projects and receiving patches, maybe the GEGLisation isn't too far from completion.

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

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Post by avian »

bringtheaction wrote: post #22
kriro wrote: 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.

I've recently taken up drawing and animation as a hobby. I found Gimp to be perfect for what I need. It has good support for my drawing tablet. I didn't find it hard to use at all and I see the fact that the interface isn't completely revamped every 6 months as a benefit. Once I figured it out, the plug-in infrastructure is wonderful and allows me to script a lot of stuff in Python.

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

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Post by wnm »

Based on the app description and homepage I always thought Krita can't replace Photoshop for the few things I need to do for basic webdesign stuff. But reading the comments here made me reconsider. Has anyone used Krita for web stuff (icons, headers, banners, editing screenshots, etc?

Since the developers are reading this thread: I saw that you have a simple press page [0], if you want something more detailed, I can hook you up with a free PressKitHero[1] account.

[0] https://krita.org/en/about/press/ [1] https://presskithero.com

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

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Post by dorfsmay »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #31
headsoup wrote: post #21

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.

I'd say krita and gimp fill different needs. Krita is for artists and Gimp is like Linux's MS paint on steroids. I frequently use Gimp to crop images, make memes, etc. When I used to draw with my wacom tablet, krita was the tool of choice.

I use "pinta" on Linux when I need an equivalent to MS paint.

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

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Post by ohtwenty »

melling wrote: post #25
Hoasi wrote: 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.

I use Materialistic[0] which besides the usual features has a "catch up" function which can be set to past 24 hrs, week, month, year. I don't use it much, but it just crashed when I did, so ymmv

0- https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/

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