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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 boudewijnrempt »

chrismorgan wrote: post #94
boudewijnrempt wrote: post #81

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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?

They change the inputs to the painting application in a way that the user cannot influence; the app no longer gets the raw hardware take, but something that's "improved" and "smoothed out". And that's limiting. We can do our own smoothing, thank you very much, and leave the amount to our user's discretion.

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

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Post by m4rtink »

bitwize wrote: post #104
m4rtink wrote: post #95

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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 - no…

There have been cheap tablets around for years, many of those work fine. I remember having a Kurta tablet in the late 90s that cost like $60 or so. For me the gating factor was Linux support: along that axis, there was Wacom (which had it), and everybody else (which didn't). These days, even though the kernel and X drivers are called "wacom", they support all manner of budget tablets under a variety of brand names (t…

From my experience using a non screen tablet makes the learning curve much steeper while a screen tablet feels much more natural due to people being used to seeing what they are drawing from writing and drawing on paper.

I have seen this one some festivals where they set up a couple Wacom LCD tablet devices for people to draw on - there was a lot of interest and basically everyone was able to start drawing in a couple minutes. Seeing what you are drawing on the screen and not in front of you basically throws all the muscle memory people have from paper drawing and writing out of the window.

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

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Post by ur-whale »

freedomben wrote: post #98
raghukamath wrote: post #92

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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.

Go in the system settings, there's usually a section dedicated to tablets.

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

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Post by trynewideas »

inetsee wrote: post #73
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.

They say up front that this release is not appropriate for mobile phones.

For once I wish my phone _didn't_ support an external display, mouse, and keyboard.

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

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Post by bitwize »

Ritsuko_akagi wrote: post #110
bitwize wrote: post #102

Tried it out. Loved it. I have one of those moderately expensive Samsung Chromebooks with its own pen, and the pressure sensitivity stuff works great. I can see myself building an art workflow around my Chromebook with Krita. Previously the only options on Chromebooks or Android were proprietary apps that had ads, including Autodesk Sketchbook which I used to love but they added ads, DeviantArt integration, and nerfe…

They have ads on autodesk sketchbook? When I had an android phone I paid for it and they made it free a few months later. Now I am on iphone and even the free apps have much less ads.

It was years ago and I forgot what change they made. It was either ads or "sign up for a free account". Whatever it was, it pissed me off -- and enough others that Autodesk apparently walked it back.

It only stressed to me the need for an open-source solution -- which Krita on Android fills nicely.

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

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Post by renewiltord »

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!

Does the pressure sensitivity work well for you in Krita?

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

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Post by willismichael »

freedomben wrote: post #98
raghukamath wrote: post #92

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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.

On Linux I didn't have to do anything other than plug in the Wacom tablet, launch Krita, and start drawing.

This page of the Krita manual has some troubleshooting suggestions specifically for Windows: https://docs.krita.org/fr/user_manual/drawing_tablets.html

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

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Post by lucb1e »

smitop wrote: post #69
hellozee wrote: post #17

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Not for chromebooks, unfortunately

You can sideload on Chromebooks if you enable developer mode. But enabling developer mode wipes all data on the system and displays a warning message on boot.

So Chromebooks only let you run software that a Google employee approved, unless you wipe your device to enable developer mode (which nobody, after using it for a while and then deciding to develop something, will want to do)? There is no other way to run some test code on it? I didn't know that and it seems strange (even Android is more liberal than that, and that's not a laptop) so genuine question.

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

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Post by HMH »

boudewijnrempt wrote: post #79

I'm surprised, speaking as the maintainer of Krita, to have a first video review already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oFUmVfiww :-)

The review mentions that the screen is a bit small for all of Krita and suggests that using something like a big iPad probably provides a better experience.

As this is only about Android I thought of promoting my take on this problem. In fact I released a small program I use to take handwritten notes via iPad on my Linux system just a few weeks ago. It works on both Android and iOS and basically turns these devices into graphic tablets. You can take a look at: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

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