I have recently begun using Krita; being open-source, I did not necessarily have high-expectations, but it absolutely is professional-grade software.
I’m very glad you’re open source. Username checks out ;)
Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
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Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess both are meant to be a kind of joke, calling your software a bad name in jest. But I think the joke works much better in the case of "git". Depending on what you read into it, calling someone a "gimp" is really quite offensive. git: A silly, incompetent, stupid or annoying person (usually a man). gimp: A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
GIMP was so named without an awareness that it coincided with pejorative. It wasn't an intentional joke.
The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film.[8]
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#153I 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/…
It reminds me a lot of Aseprite, which is free to compile yourself since it's open source, but you have to buy it on Steam for auto-updates and such.
Aseprite calls itself "source available" now. Their license has a "no redistribute" clause, so if want to use it and can't compile it yourself, you have to buy it.
I spent about an hour trying to compile it on Windows a few months ago, couldn't get it working. Can't remember why, maybe most of that time was installing requirements.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Thank you for being the maintainer, and thanks for this update. You folks are incredible.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I make comics and I am pretty sure that a feature set suitable for making word balloons is going to be very much a superset of what you need to annotate screenshots. Annotation: pick a font/size/color and pick a place to start typing, or drag out a larger, rectangular text box and start typing. Comics: also those text boxes might need to be ovals/rectangles/some absolutely crazy shape that fits the needs of the page,…
Clip Studio's text tools are really primitive, yes... And we're aware of the challenges. At least three people in the core team do make comics, too :-) And we want to support vertical text, RTL, ruby and all of that. But in this thread there's a link to a blog post that shows what already has been done, and there's been lots of work done since.
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#156As 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.…
I recommended Krita to my wife for digital drawing, and Krita stands ahead in the realm of "open source software that is usable by non-maintainers".
Maintainers used loosely as people who participate in the community, filing bug reports and providing forum support.
If you look at something like FreeCAD, equally powerful but not nearly as user friendly, you need to want to use FreeCAD specifically.
With Krita, you just need to want to paint. Its incredibly user friendly for someone with zero experience.
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#157If you're on Android, the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.krita) will tell you it's not compatible with your Android phone.
This actually appears to be false! I downloaded the v8 ARM APK directly [0] and it started up and is working fine.
Enjoy :)
[0] https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.1.5/
Thank goodness for side loading.
Edit: @hallarempt, naturally it isn't perfect on a phone screen, but still works. A mobile-native version would be cool but this is still a lot better than any other Phone-oshop tools I've tried! Kind of depressing to be told it's "incompatible" when in reality it's functional with some limitations.
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
GIMP was so named without an awareness that it coincided with pejorative. It wasn't an intentional joke.
The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film.[8] - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History
The movie in question doesn't even make the pejorative version of the word clear. The best you could come out of it is some weird fetish thing.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
Still don't see them. You seem awfully keen to die on this hill, huh?
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#160If you're on Android, the Play Store ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.krita ) will tell you it's not compatible with your Android phone. This actually appears to be false! I downloaded the v8 ARM APK directly [0] and it started up and is working fine. Enjoy :) [0] https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.1.5/ Thank goodness for side loading. Edit: @hallarempt, naturally it isn't perfect on a phone s…
Yeah... The thing is, the current UI isn't really good for small screens, so when we teamed up with Google to bring Krita to Android and ChromeOS, we only targeted large-screen devices.
We are trying to add a UX suitable for small-screen devices, but... Google changes Android so often and so weirdly that the guy working on Krita on Android pretty much spends all his time chasing those changes instead of designing a small-screen friendly UI.