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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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Post by hirako2000 »

pmayrgundter wrote: post #5

I used to use Gimp for photoshop type operations but it's become unusable for me due to slowness, even with a M1 native build. No idea what's up. Tried Krita and it works great

Same. I find gimp even lagging behind photoshop which itself can be a clog. A shame since Gimp is a fantastic app.

Krita is a complete replacement at this point. And, its features caters to drawing/painting to a greater degree than photoshop, by far. The brush engine is phenomenonal and just for this has become my favorite drawing tool.

Two tools into one. Snappy fast even on OSX, and feels very much native visually.

Tip: Veikk manufactures great 8192 pressure sensitivity A4 size tablets for about 40 to 60 bucks. Packed with extra nibs and everything . Krita and this obscure made of tablets plugged onto a commodity laptop is the best value artist station for all sort of digital work.

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

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Post by dahart »

jeroenhd wrote: post #66
dahart wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Depends entirely on your definition of “safe”. And yes my very point was that a little bit weird is a low bar to cross, and yet it’s still crossing a bar. That is exactly why the parent said “semi” NSFW. I don’t browse news sites at work for the same reason. Hey if you want your boss and co-workers to see you with “huh okay” stuff on your screen, and have no concern you might slowly lose on promotions or get HR complaints, then knock yourself out. Speaking only personally, I don’t want anyone in my office to feel uncomfortable with what’s on my screen or desk.

The gender doesn’t matter. It would be just as weird if it was an ambiguously young looking male child/teenager with emphasized anatomy under tight clothing. I would definitely also avoid having that on my monitor or desk.

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

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Post by kzrdude »

acapybara wrote: post #17

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.…

Why is free the only word that's consistently spelled in all uppercase? All throughout commercial text. It is kind of tacky at this point.

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

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Post by webstrand »

kps wrote: post #64
dahart wrote: post #54

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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.

I've been using HN for a decade, I thought it was free of the disease of downvoting.

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

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Post by LegitShady »

haunter wrote: post #11

I love that they are also selling the software in stores (MS, Steam, Epic). You don't get anything extra apart from the automatic updates but it's certainly a nice way to get people to pay for your FOSS project. Back in 2019 they mentioned that "Krita has gone from 2 to 4 full-time developers over the last 10 months, and Steam has been instrumental in raising the funds to make that possible" https://old.reddit.com/r/…

I was using it generally before but bought it on steam 1) to support the project and 2) to have it automatically update itself.

Worth what I paid for it even though I could get it free.

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

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Post by prophesi »

dahart wrote: post #70
zamnos wrote: post #63

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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.

Your verbiage makes it sound concerning, but if it's the following image[0] then I don't see how anyone could misconstrue it with lolita culture. It looks like something you'd see in a Studio Ghibli film.

[0] https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/electrichearts_...

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

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Post by FormerBandmate »

kzrdude wrote: post #73
acapybara wrote: post #17

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.…

Why is free the only word that's consistently spelled in all uppercase? All throughout commercial text. It is kind of tacky at this point.

Emulating tacky sleazy ads that have a fine print where you pay $10,000 every day and sell your soul to Satan.

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

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Post by dahart »

prophesi wrote: post #76
dahart wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your verbiage makes it sound concerning, but if it's the following image[0] then I don't see how anyone could misconstrue it with lolita culture. It looks like something you'd see in a Studio Ghibli film. [0] https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/electrichearts_...

The visible garters aren’t a clue? Yes the visual style might be similar to Ghibli, in the sense that it’s anime, but see if you can find a shot from any of their films with garters under a skirt. That’s only one of the Krita splash screens. If you look at all of them, the suggestiveness is relatively consistent though not exactly the same from version to version.

Speaking only personally, I can imagine how this image would make some people slightly squeamish if I had it on display at work. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have it on your desktop. You do you. I’m only saying I wouldn’t do it, and not necessarily for obvious or extreme reasons, it’s really just for subtle reasons, but personally I don’t see how anyone could not see the slightly suggestive nature of Krita’s splash screens. Which is fine at home, just not at work (for me).

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

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Post by s1291 »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #23

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…

Read about the re-written text layout engine: https://wolthera.info/2022/10/svg-text-layout-for-krita
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