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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 Moru »

lmm wrote: post #29
Hoasi wrote: 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.

I think a large portion of the problem discovering things here is that they often have very counterintuitive names. Krita is very logical for me as swedish but outside Sweden not so much I guess.

Apache is a webserver? Really? Konqueror is probably a game, right? :-)

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

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Post by JoeDaDude »

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 like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint:

https://mymodernmet.com/grandma-ms-paint-art/

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

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Post by mattigames »

JoeDaDude wrote: post #83
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 like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint: https://mymodernmet.com/grandma-ms-paint-art/

That's exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it's impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives more difficult by purpose.

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

#85

Post by cheunste »

Findus23 wrote: post #67

If you have not already check out David Revoy. He creates beautiful art using only open source tools: https://www.peppercarrot.com/

Wow, that webcomic is really well drawn and interesting as well. I'll have to keep my eyes on this one.

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

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Post by vanderZwan »

mattigames wrote: post #84
JoeDaDude wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint: https://mymodernmet.com/grandma-ms-paint-art/

That's exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it's impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives more difficult by purpose.

I think you fail to appreciate that learning a new skill requires some kind of connection to an already learned skill, and that this connection becomes harder to establish at old age.

The old lady's choice may have made perfect sense from her point of view.

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

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Post by boudewijnrempt »

Moru wrote: post #81
lmm wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think a large portion of the problem discovering things here is that they often have very counterintuitive names. Krita is very logical for me as swedish but outside Sweden not so much I guess. Apache is a webserver? Really? Konqueror is probably a game, right? :-)

Well... The project was originally named KImageShop. Not entirely unexpectedly, that ended in lawyerly trouble. Not initiated by Adobe, though!

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

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Post by boudewijnrempt »

bluGill wrote: post #79
wnm wrote: post #36

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…

Krita is not targeted as a photoshop replacement. It was at one time, but 15+ years ago they realized that many people are willing to pay for photoshop and thus Adobe has a large amount of money to throw at developers (at least some of them good) and so they are unlikely to catch up. They then shifted focus to be the best programing for drawing instead, a niche that Photoshop can cover but it isn't what their custome…

2010 actually: https://krita.org/en/item/last-week-in-krita-week-8/ -- though my own focus has always been painting, and I started working on Krita in 2003.

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

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Post by Xyzodiac »

mattigames wrote: post #84
JoeDaDude wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint: https://mymodernmet.com/grandma-ms-paint-art/

That's exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it's impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives more difficult by purpose.

Really not the same thing. You could produce the same C++ program in Notepad that you could in any other editor or IDE. Here the artist is working with restricted tools in a way that the restriction becomes part of the work itself
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