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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 edflsafoiewq »

jamilton wrote: post #153
ZeWaka wrote: post #129

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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.

Seems like a bit of a perverse incentive.

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

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Post by ruuda »

raincole wrote: post #147
robomartin wrote: post #121

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> As a long-time user and supporter of Krita, How does Krita compare to GIMP?

No the parent comment but I can answer this. They're quite different. Krita is more about digital painting and GIMP is more about photo processing. If you're familiar with CSP and Photoshop, Krita is more like CSP and GIMP is more like Photoshop. Specifically, Krita has a much more sophisticated brush engine.

Even for light photo editing and making memes and such, I much prefer Krita over Gimp. I find the interface more straightforward to use. (And in terms of features I prefer Photopea over both, but unfortunately it's not free software.)

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

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Post by suzumer »

Foomf wrote: post #142
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 know Paint.NET, WinSCP and HexChat does this (Microsoft Store).

Paint.net stopped releasing source code in 2009.

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

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Post by ziml77 »

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

Are these what you consider NSFW? Your job would have to be assistant to the pope for your workplace to be offended by these.

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

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Post by evertedsphere »

hallarempt wrote: post #160
metadat wrote: post #157

If 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 s…

To be fair, Clip Studio Paint also for the most part chose to port the desktop UI to Android instead of something more touch-friendly, didn't they?

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

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Post by EGreg »

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.

I used to try to port Photoshop to newer OSes etc.

Then I discovered PhotoPea web app online and it’s even better! And available anywhere for free! Have you tried it? Just like Photoshop 5 haha

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

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Post by hallarempt »

noisy_boy wrote: post #159
dahart wrote: post #101

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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?

Heh. If any of the official Kiki images has a Kiki with melon-sized boobs, _I_ would have melon-sized boobs, and I've only been on HRT for a year and a half, and am an A-cup. (Aspiring to a B-cup, though!)

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

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Post by dahart »

ziml77 wrote: post #164
dahart wrote: post #101

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

Are these what you consider NSFW? Your job would have to be assistant to the pope for your workplace to be offended by these.

I didn’t call it unambiguously NSFW. The top comment (not mine) didn’t either, they used the qualifier “semi”. This obviously isn’t porn, it’s art. The famous Lena image has no breasts at all, and it’s considered semi NSFW. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna “it is no longer considered appropriate by some authors” … “Suggestive pictures used in lectures on image processing ... convey the message that the lecturer caters to the males only.”

You don’t have to be in a puritanical setting for some women and men around you to be uncomfortable with your pin-ups, regardless of which body parts are visible. They might never even say anything about it, and yet it can still be slightly inappropriate and/or unprofessional.

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

cynthedesign wrote: post #124
hirako2000 wrote: post #71

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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.…

How many of us are in the boat where we have thousands of hours on adobe products to unlearn in order to be able to use GIMP without pulling our hair out?

This is precisely why Adobe, Microsoft, and Autodesk give colleges and universities free licenses for their products.

The entire industry of digital tools has hung itself on these magic words: "industry standard".

All the while, free software like Krita, Linux, and Blender have become viable, if not substantially better, alternatives to their proprietary incumbent counterparts. Practically every need that the industry has can be met using free tools. The hardest part is simply convincing people to use them.

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

zxspectrum1982 wrote: post #24
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.

Paint.NET used to be open source until a bunch of scammers started selling "relabeled" versions of it, misleading users.

So its devs decided to join the trend?

I'm not sure how that's better.

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