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How does it compare to Photopea for beginners? Is it similar enough that I could follow along tutorials meant for Photoshop? Edit: It looks like it's oriented more towards painting than photo editing
Is this a good choice for drawing vector graphics? (Inkscape is a bit clunky.. or maybe I'm just not good at using it)
I think they did a bunch of overhauls a while back (through a Kickstarter) where they specifically rebuilt and beefed up the core vector engine, but if I remember correctly other features ended up getting more votes during the campaign than some of the followup user-facing vector tools/systems they were thinking about, and they ended up prioritizing the other stuff that got more votes.
How does Krita compare to Gimp at this point? (Since someone on the comments here said it can be a Photoshop drop-in replacement)
To me, the thing that brings me back to Krita over and over is that fact that it's intuitive to use. I've been trying to use GIMP for the past 10 years and still have no idea how to resize an image/canvas or where the heck the crop tool is. In Krita those things are exactly where I end up looking for them.
The tool is right in the toolbox for interactive resizing, or Image > Scale Image for blunt numeric input.
> or where the heck the crop tool is.
Also right there in the toolbox.
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Before Krita was 'marketed' as a digital painting app, it was described and used as an alternative to GIMP and Photoshop. At some point (in the 2010s?) there was a decision to refocus on digital painting, I think maybe because of the difficulty of keeping up with the expansive featureset of something like Photoshop or GIMP (and maybe the additional difficulty of still keeping a focused, pleasant UI). But it's not lik…
Nah, the change was mostly because painting is what I'm most interested in, and I was -- and am -- the maintainer :-)
And wow, you've been the maintainer for a very long time!
Thanks for your work. Imo Krita's design is a model for KDE productivity apps.
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Heh,those were "fun" times, and they even predate my own involvement!
Any chance you could drop a tl;dr for those of us who don't read German? Poked around a bit at Wikipedia, but didn't find anything. Also, thanks for all you do with Krita! It's one of the programs that I don't think I've ever not had installed on my daily driver.
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Those release notes are a project in their own right. You need a team just for that!
They were written by pretty much one person, who also fixes bugs, maintains the manual and help out the maintainer -- me -- with any tasks needed. We usually start the release notes for the next major version right after we released a major version, and try to keep up with what happens. Upcoming Krita 5.1, that what's currently in the master branch on invent.kde.org, already has a bunch of new stuff...
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Any chance you could drop a tl;dr for those of us who don't read German? Poked around a bit at Wikipedia, but didn't find anything. Also, thanks for all you do with Krita! It's one of the programs that I don't think I've ever not had installed on my daily driver.
I'm sorry, but it's untranslatable... Both for language and for custom.
Thanks for everything again!
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Wife still uses Photoshop CS 2 on Windows, and I've basically told her that when her computer dies, she's getting Linux and open source software, or she's gonna have to figure out Windows 11 by herself and pay the subscription for Adobe. "Fine with Linux" she says, since it's installed on other computers in the house, "... but what can I use instead of Photoshop?". "Use Gimp, of course!" I say, and install it on her…
There are a lot of paths that are unique to each of them. I bet the reverse (from Gimp to PS) feels the same. My wife asked to make a logo and a leaflet, and I never offered other thing than Inkscape. She ended up using it for almost anything. After a couple of years I bet that she will find Illustrator frustrating.
I say this as someone who strongly dislikes Photoshop. I wish I had a viable alternative.
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Before Krita was 'marketed' as a digital painting app, it was described and used as an alternative to GIMP and Photoshop. At some point (in the 2010s?) there was a decision to refocus on digital painting, I think maybe because of the difficulty of keeping up with the expansive featureset of something like Photoshop or GIMP (and maybe the additional difficulty of still keeping a focused, pleasant UI). But it's not lik…
Nah, the change was mostly because painting is what I'm most interested in, and I was -- and am -- the maintainer :-)