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I know Paint.NET, WinSCP and HexChat does this (Microsoft Store).
Paint.net stopped releasing source code in 2009.
But you can still download it from their website for free. They charge for it on the windows store.
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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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.
They were GPLv2 for a while but changed course. I'd use the fork going forward:
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#173I 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/…
Here is an old (2016) breakdown of their income sources:
https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/
I follow their updates semi-regularly so I'm not sure if they made a more recent one that was as detailed. I found a tad depressing to see how much Steam purchases are making compared to donations.
They also had an interesting post about the fact that on the Windows store they cannot mention that you can download it for free as it is against Microsoft TOS: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-upda...
They also mention that it's a compromise, it's adding a new income stream but participating in the economy of non-free software.
It's hard to make money with free software, even if your product is industry-level in some aspects.
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#174If 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…
it's also in F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.krita/
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
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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 industr…
Also applies to Matlab.
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#176I feel like Krita is the next best thing after Photoshop, however; the interface really doesn't sit right with me at all. It feels very counter intuitive and I struggle finding what I need. I also don't like that "windows" inside the "main window" isn't really a thing unless you use the software(?) renderer, and even then it's sub-par at best. Like, I want to have 4 or 5 images open and see them all at the same time.
As a counterpoint, some years ago I felt it was time to use "a real painting program" and switch to Photoshop. It felt so backwards, mostly in terms of interface, that I dropped the idea very fast. There are a few shortcuts that I change or find missing in Krita, but apart from that it felt like the painting experience was much more streamlined (which is my main concern, so I can't talk for other aspects).
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
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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!)
I guess using the word melon seems to have triggered some people, and is arguable given the cartoony proportions, but the links I put above are definitely adult boobs, and larger than B cup, relative to the torso/shoulders/arms. The boob size isn’t really the point, the subject matter as a whole just isn’t workplace material, right? I don’t quite understand all the pushback on the idea that these pictures aren’t completely neutral and aren’t 100% appropriate for the workplace.
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#178I 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/…
Here is an old (2016) breakdown of their income sources: https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/ I follow their updates semi-regularly so I'm not sure if they made a more recent one that was as detailed. I found a tad depressing to see how much Steam purchases are making compared to donations. They also had an interesting post about the fact that on the Windows store they cannot mention that you can dow…
If Microsoft asked you to make a donation for a product, you'd probably also scoff at the idea.
It is a term that carries lots of connotations, and people are far less likely to do than simply buy a product.
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#179If 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…
Oh shit I just bought my kid a Moto G Stylus and Krita was part of our game-plan. Is there a bounty I can donate to for this?
Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Oh shit I just bought my kid a Moto G Stylus and Krita was part of our game-plan. Is there a bounty I can donate to for this?
You can still sideload it, but a phone-suitable UX is going to take a year, or two, three.