Krita 4.4.0

In this increasingly "Software as a Service" world, it's nice to have a good alternative where you actually own the software you are using. Being FOSS is just icing on the cake. Huge respect to the team behind Krita, and the KDE community as a whole.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

#5

Post by mschuetz » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 11:48 AM UTC

It's like GIMP, but good.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

#6

Post by pupdogg » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

IMO, aside from Blender, Krita is one of the most amazing open source graphics project to date. Thank you so much for your existence!

Re: Krita 4.4.0

#7

Post by mouldysammich » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

mschuetz wrote: post #5

It's like GIMP, but good.

Its a painting program not an image editing program. they dont compete.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

#8

Post by milliams » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

dsign wrote: post #3

Is this the same Krita I tried for the first time when I was a junior at college almost twenty years ago? Oh my, I'm so glad it all worked out!

Possibly. It was called KImage, then KImageShop, then Krayon and then renamed to Krita in 2002.

https://krita.org/en/about/history/

Re: Krita 4.4.0

#9

Post by dsign » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 11:50 AM UTC

milliams wrote: post #8

dsign wrote: post #3

Is this the same Krita I tried for the first time when I was a junior at college almost twenty years ago? Oh my, I'm so glad it all worked out!

Possibly. It was called KImage, then KImageShop, then Krayon and then renamed to Krita in 2002. https://krita.org/en/about/history/

It's that one then, it was already called Krita by then.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by flohofwoe » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

Note the red message about how to run the installer on Windows despite the SmartScreen popup.

Microsoft really needs to do something about the whole SmartScreen mess if even properly signed, popular and trusted open source tools like Krita require such a "how to get around the SmartScreen popup" note in their installation instructions.