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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 dahart »

raincole wrote: post #100
dahart wrote: post #70

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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.

Some of them certainly do. https://images.app.goo.gl/sXTmKVvErm9mgtQZA https://images.app.goo.gl/ucr6f7dfnBUeqMJe7

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

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Post by teddyh »

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.

The name means “Chalk”, and has the same root as “Cretaceous” (the geological period).

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

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Post by hallarempt »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #86
uberdoogle wrote: post #2

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Even though I don't deny there's clearly a tradition of depicting feminine characters at various levels of sexualisation, c'mon, this mascot is in full-body armour/exoskeleton and a dress over it (or maybe it's an android in a dress)! Look, this child mermaid on the Photoshop splash screen[1] has no clothes beneath the waist. Is it NSFW too? [1]: https://www.deviantart.com/mostafaabeelfattah/art/Adobe-Phot...

Yup, Kiki is a cybersquirrel, so an android. For a fuller set of ex-splashes, check https://krita.org/en/about/kiki/ . The current splash was inspired by https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61379.html .

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

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Post by hallarempt »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #99
s1291 wrote: post #80

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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 bei…

Yes, on-canvas editing of text is a project for this year, and probably most of next year. All in all we're spending tens of thousands of euros on the text shape and text tool, in the hope that now we're doing this for the fourth time, we can finally nail it.

The main purpose of Krita's text tool is comic book speech bubbles, though, not annotating screen shots.

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

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Post by Freire_Herval »

danparsonson wrote: post #93
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?

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

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Post by hallarempt »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #22
scetron wrote: post #8

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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.

https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction might help.

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

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Post by dahart »

jrootabega wrote: post #96
kps wrote: post #64

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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.

FWIW, I don’t suspect my vouching is disabled. The comment has been un-flagged now. The churn in this thread is fairly interesting though. I can honestly see why it might be enough of a debate trigger that it’s best from a moderation point of view if the thread was harder to find and comment on.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dahart wrote: post #101
raincole wrote: post #100

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> 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.

Some of them certainly do. https://images.app.goo.gl/sXTmKVvErm9mgtQZA https://images.app.goo.gl/ucr6f7dfnBUeqMJe7

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