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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by freedomben »

verroq wrote: post #88
freedomben wrote: post #86

I bought a Wacom tablet to use with Krita and have been totally unable to figure out how to make it work. Every tutorial/video out there is for Windows and most of the settings that affect Krita are done in a windows setting area. I use Fedora/Gnome and don't have access to that level of settings (tho there are some settings available through Gnome via libwacom, which itself is awesome). Anyone using Krita with a Wac…

On Arch I’ve installed the Wacom drivers as outlined in the Arch Wiki as it just works.

Have you tried it with Krita? It "just works" on all other apps I've tried it with (it behaves like a mouse), but Krita is doing something different. It completely ignores the wacom when focus is on the Krita window.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by raghukamath »

freedomben wrote: post #86

I bought a Wacom tablet to use with Krita and have been totally unable to figure out how to make it work. Every tutorial/video out there is for Windows and most of the settings that affect Krita are done in a windows setting area. I use Fedora/Gnome and don't have access to that level of settings (tho there are some settings available through Gnome via libwacom, which itself is awesome). Anyone using Krita with a Wac…

Yes I am using Krita with wacom on Linux. On linux wacom and most other tablets are just plug and play. They just work. krita is just a click away from the software center.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by Moru »

mbeex wrote: post #10
Mirioron wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish more parents bought their kids drawing tablets. Kids try out all kinds of things, but it's hard to try out something that you don't have the equipment for. Sure, drawing on paper is a possibility, but it's not quite the same thing as digital art that tends to be much easier to share and get feedback on.

The leading brand is quite expensive (at least here in Germany), especially when it comes to reasonable sizes (A4/letter). I've been putting this off for years. Finally - a few months ago - I aquired something remarkable cheaper, a chinese Gaomon M106K. It turned out, it is not cheap at all in the other sense of the word. Good quality and support at least for my use case (a bit different, handwritten formulas and som…

The huion tablets are just as good if not better than wacom.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by chrismorgan »

boudewijnrempt wrote: post #81
Maha-pudma wrote: post #77

I'm interested in starting drawing on my computer. What tablet is best for Linux?

Wacom. The very, very best is a second hand Wacom Intuos 3, if you can get a few spare pens. That's before Wacome started adding all kinds of smart interpolation curves to the tablet hardware itself. My Intuos 3 is eleven years old and going strong. We got it back then: https://dot.kde.org/2007/11/16/art-tablets-krita

I’m curious: what do these smart interpolation curves do, and why do you consider them bad?

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by m4rtink »

Mirioron wrote: post #6
illuminated wrote: post #2

Congrats for the release! I love Krita. Actually, my kids love it so much. I've had a Wacom tablet for years and thanks to Krita my kids are expanding their artistic skills rapidly. I wish the people behind it all the best!

I wish more parents bought their kids drawing tablets. Kids try out all kinds of things, but it's hard to try out something that you don't have the equipment for. Sure, drawing on paper is a possibility, but it's not quite the same thing as digital art that tends to be much easier to share and get feedback on.

This is basically Wacoms fault - they sat on their patents basically only producing expensive high end devices, preventing others from providing high volume basic but cheap devices. This was the most apparent in the LCD tablet are where until recently was just the high end Wacom made Cintiq that was insanely expensive and nothing else.

I believe that we lost at least one generation of digital artists due to this - not everyone can be productive by a non-LCD tablet and even those have been overpriced.

Thankfully with the main Wacom tablet patents finally gone, the situation seems to be finally recovering, with many new, mostly Chinese, LCD tablet makers and a lot of people using high end Android and Apple tablets for drawing (which are still much much cheaper than what Wacom used to want for a simple LCD tablet display or for what it sells its bulky mobile studio devices these days).

But to this day, we can still see the technical dept caused by Wacom blocking a whole area of HID devices for ~20 years - drivers for non Wacom LCD drawing displays are still a mess and there is a lack of quality drawing software, especially on Android.

So good to se Krita helping to address at least one of these issues. :)

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by m4rtink »

omnimus wrote: post #51
mkl wrote: post #24

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I do! This doesn't make sense to me. I have a Galaxy Note 12.2, and it's great, but bigger would be better (it's not quite A4). I also have a 12"×9" Wacom Intuos, 12" Surface Pro, 15" Surface Book 2 from work. All of those would be even better bigger (but the work laptop wouldn't fit in my backpack any more). I have a small Wacom tablet too, and it's too small to be very useful.

Touchscreens and Tablets are something very different. Sure you want as big screen as possible. I bet most people who switch to touchscreens never want tablet back. Many people prefer tablets over touchscreens because you don't have to slouch.

Devices like the Galaxy Tab S6 are basically a very powerful Android tablet with low latency high precision pen input (also does pressure and tilt detectio) via the supplied S pen (uses basically the same battery free technology as Wacom tablets).

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by illuminated »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #70
illuminated wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am constantly amazed at what they are able to do with it. I was just a minute ago explaining to my younger daughter the concept of layers and the first thing she did with it was to separate an object to which she wanted to apply a special filter. Without even thinking about it.

This takes me back to when I was 12 and discovered layers in Photoshop 6. Having always been frustrated with my drawings being all matted together in Paint/ClarisWorks/etc, layers blew my mind and hooked me on the concept of digital art. Layers are a great example of how simple tools can act as a multiplier for creativity and inspiration.

I lost my PC graphics virginity with Corel DRAW (I don't remember the version). Man, it was so inspiring... I could never get used to Adobe Illustrator afterwards, it just did not seem logic after working with Corel Draw for years.

They've recently published a revamped version with Mac compatibility and I bought it just for the sake of good old times, although I'm far from doing any graphic work anymore.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by freedomben »

raghukamath wrote: post #92
freedomben wrote: post #86

I bought a Wacom tablet to use with Krita and have been totally unable to figure out how to make it work. Every tutorial/video out there is for Windows and most of the settings that affect Krita are done in a windows setting area. I use Fedora/Gnome and don't have access to that level of settings (tho there are some settings available through Gnome via libwacom, which itself is awesome). Anyone using Krita with a Wac…

Yes I am using Krita with wacom on Linux. On linux wacom and most other tablets are just plug and play. They just work. krita is just a click away from the software center.

How did you configure Krita? I see almost nothing in the "tablet settings" section besides pressure. When Krita has focus and I draw on the tablet, it does nothing. Every other app treats the tablet like a mouse.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by m4rtink »

ngold wrote: post #89
toxicFork wrote: post #7

Aw, it does not work well on mobile phones, because the dialogues are cropped and unscrollable. I am going to keep an eye on it though, some apps like sketchbook are somewhat working but they are limited. Having krita equivalent for the phone would be awesome.

I have yet to find something that works better than medibang for all around doodling on phones and tablets. However, I'm excited to keep an eye on this as well.

AFAIK Ibis Paint targets Android smartphones, possibply even as their main target. They have various helper tools for finger based drawing and even their tutorial videos are dony by hand on a normal size smartphone (eq. not on an Android tablet with precize pen support).

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by m4rtink »

ur-whale wrote: post #61

Fantastic news. Just installed this on my Galaxy tab. It still has some rough edges, but it is miles ahead of all the drawing adware I had used so far. Oh and, thank you Krita developers: it actually feels like a desktop app (as in: you can load and save files, and there's an actual "exit" button").

Thanks a lot as well! Got Galaxy Tab S6 for drawing and the software available on Android has not really been that good when compared to what is available on desktop Linux with Krita, Mypaint and others. :)
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