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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 SahAssar »

elicash wrote: post #69
RobotToaster wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"“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.

> Free as in mattress, and free as in piano

I don't get it, could you explain?

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

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Post by EMM_386 »

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #9

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 really is.

I started using that when it was launched in 2004 and it's come a very long way. Began as a computer science senior design project.

Unfortunately as you mention it's not open source anymore ... too many people recompiling it and selling it as their own.

It's fast, easy, and has more features than I'll ever need. Plugins also for more advanced things like content-aware fills, etc.

It's not directly comparable to Krita but if you need a powerful, free image editor on Windows it's easily my recommendation.

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

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Post by danparsonson »

Freire_Herval wrote: post #33

Digital painting was a skill to learn on my bucket list. Emphasis on "was". Within the last 6 months all of that has changed. I no longer value digital painting as a skill. It's easy to see why based on everything's that happened in the news. I'm sure a lot of people share my sentiment.

If you seriously take that attitude then it's hardly worth learning to do anything - there will always be someone or some computer who is better at it, so why even try?

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

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Post by blauditore »

jrm4 wrote: post #87

Genuine and serious praise for not insisting on sticking with an absurdly embarassing and arguably problematic name that would be likely to hamper adoption for quite some time, unlike a certain other free and open source painting program.

Do you mean Gimp? I don't think that's so relevant. Did Git suffer from the same problem?

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

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Post by jrootabega »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, vouching gets shadow disabled if you go against the abusive hive mind that is condoned here.

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

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Post by kitsunesoba »

kps wrote: post #61
EGreg wrote: post #14

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.

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

I've debated setting up an offline "creative corner" machine with a comfy older OS and Photoshop, something like Snow Leopard and Photoshop CS1/CS2, precisely because the core of what makes PS useful for me hasn't changed in ages. For my use case the new features added in versions since simply aren't worth the bloat and slowness that's come with them.

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

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Post by sigstoat »

SahAssar wrote: post #91
elicash wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Free as in mattress, and free as in piano I don't get it, could you explain?

the mattress could be infected with bedbugs.

and a piano that's been unmaintained for enough decades isn't an instrument any more, and never will be. and disposing of them is expensive.

they have negative value, despite not costing any money.

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

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Post by footlose_3815 »

s1291 wrote: post #80
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

If I read and understand that correctly, they aren't addressing the UX of the editor, but the engine's features instead? Features are nice, but I don't think people want to type their text in a big window before they see it on the canvas.

Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET, and even MS paint let you write text directly on the canvas with an insertion point. The Text tool in Krita is a whole level of abstraction away from being able to see what you want.

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

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Post by raincole »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> That's a straw man.

Then proceeded to talk about "melon sized breasts", which Krita's mascot doesn't have.

If there is an award of the lack of self-awareness, this comment deserves a nomination.

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