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Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Also I use photopea online because I was so used to old Photoshop

My Photoshop install from a previous life is a major reason I still keep a 15-year-old Mac running.

Krita is really nice but it's an artist's tool, not a general image editor. GIMP is a general image editor but… not really nice.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Agreed. Just made the switch over to Krita from Gimp for some simple workflows. Everything feels much faster across Mac, Windows, and Linux. Also the tools somehow make a bit more sense out of the box.

I may start doing the same, at least when the tool-sets overlap. Any experience using it's python scripting tools? I've done some scripting with gimp, but the documentation is really really poor and it was a much more frustrating experience than it ought to have been.

Haven't delved into the scripting just yet.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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If your workplace has a rule against cutesy mascots, you can use --no-splash to disable the splash screen on all platforms. I'm not sure what place of work would consider this mascot to be NSFW (maybe a theocratic country where women are forced to hide their bodies for religious reasons?) but the switch doesn't prevent mascot from popping up elsewhere, so if you are in such a place you should probably avoid this prog…

There doesn’t have to be a rule against cutesy mascots for the Krita splash to be just a little bit weird. I don’t have pictures of any women not in my family, especially young girls, on my desk, and people around me would consider it weird if I did, and I would consider it a little weird if they did. True, the switch doesn’t prevent female anime mascots from popping up elsewhere, yet somehow that’s not a problem I’v…

No wife/girlfriends/sisters/daughters/nieces in your life? Do you have zero pictures of the boys/men in your life as well? Not even a family picture?

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Yeah, this guy getting suppressed is a clear abuse of the HN voting system.

I tried to vouch as well and it didn’t work. Does a second flag lock the comment dead?

Vouching never seems to work for me. I used to use it when I thought a comment had been unfairly flagged even when I disagreed with it (as in this case), and I suspect I've had my vouching ability shadow-disabled for diverging from the mean.

Regular downvoting is bad enough, but flagging is effectively an unassailable super-downvote.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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It's weird seeing this on the top of the frontpage because of how old the app is. It's great for annotating with symbols and circling stuff, and the "New from clipboard" function is awesome, but the text editor holds it back entirely. It's painful to do ANYTHING with text and they choose not to triage it. There's a minimum text size, too, so it auto-goes back to that high text size unless you type a number in. It's n…

I see it mainly as an digital painting app and it is advertised by its creators as such ("painting program … art tools"). There, it goes far beyond basic functionality and is very much ready for mainstream.

It does a lot of things beyond that, and some people use it as general purpose tool but given that this is not part of the core purpose, it is not surprising that the mileage varies when it comes to text editing or color correction etc. (Still happy if they manage to improve their text tool!)

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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If your workplace has a rule against cutesy mascots, you can use --no-splash to disable the splash screen on all platforms. I'm not sure what place of work would consider this mascot to be NSFW (maybe a theocratic country where women are forced to hide their bodies for religious reasons?) but the switch doesn't prevent mascot from popping up elsewhere, so if you are in such a place you should probably avoid this prog…

There doesn’t have to be a rule against cutesy mascots for the Krita splash to be just a little bit weird. I don’t have pictures of any women not in my family, especially young girls, on my desk, and people around me would consider it weird if I did, and I would consider it a little weird if they did. True, the switch doesn’t prevent female anime mascots from popping up elsewhere, yet somehow that’s not a problem I’v…

"a little bit weird" is a pretty low bar to cross. Enough to maybe go "huh okay", but nowhere close to NSFW. Your average news site carries ads more NSFW than this and most people still browse the web without ad blockers.

Why would the gender of the mascot even matter? Would it be better if the mascot was male?

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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I tried switching to it so I had an FOSS alternative to paint.net, but so far it's taking some getting used to. I really wish paint.net was FOSS - it's perfect.

It's a shame Paint.NET doesn't work in Wine. Gimp can do way too much, Krita is mostly for artists, and the various lightweight MS Paint alternatives lack things like layers. Paint.NET has fulfilled my requirements for quick image editing quite nicely during my Windows days. However, I wouldn't call it a competitor to Krita. Krita is very much oriented at artists making digital art whereas Paint.NET is much more pict…

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Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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If not Krita, then what might be a better alternative to Paint.NET?

Pinta served me well, but on modern distributions it's become unstable. I've resorted to GIMP and Photopea these days. I'm jealous of the image editor built into SerenityOS (PixelPaint). It's getting awfully close to everything I want out of an image editor, but I'm not brave enough to try to port a Serenity application to Linux.

Pinta works just fine as a flatpak. Have you tried that?

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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As a long-time user and supporter of Krita, I'm thrilled to see it mentioned here. However, I must express my concern about the choice of emphasizing "FREE" in all caps in this headline. While I understand that the cost-free nature of open-source software is certainly appealing, I feel that this particular framing could cheapen the overall value proposition of Krita. Krita has much more to offer than just being free.…

"“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish wo…

This is entirely unrelated to Krita, but on the "free beer" mention: I had heard free as in beer, and also free as in puppies. But two that I heard recently and loved that make different points: Free as in mattress, and free as in piano.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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post #63
post #51

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There doesn’t have to be a rule against cutesy mascots for the Krita splash to be just a little bit weird. I don’t have pictures of any women not in my family, especially young girls, on my desk, and people around me would consider it weird if I did, and I would consider it a little weird if they did. True, the switch doesn’t prevent female anime mascots from popping up elsewhere, yet somehow that’s not a problem I’v…

No wife/girlfriends/sisters/daughters/nieces in your life? Do you have zero pictures of the boys/men in your life as well? Not even a family picture?

That’s a straw man. The Krita picture of “Kiki” is not a member of my family, or anyone else’s. Nobody in my family is ambiguously young with melon sized breasts, and even if they were I definitely wouldn’t have a picture of it on my desk.
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