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

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Post by Pxtl »

egypturnash wrote: post #143
acapybara wrote: post #17

As 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.…

It's a powerful and versatile painting program, developed by a dedicated team of professionals and volunteers who have worked tirelessly to make it an excellent tool for digital artists. The software offers a wide range of features, including an intuitive user interface, advanced brush engines, and robust layering capabilities. These strengths are what truly set Krita apart and should be the primary focus when promot…

Clip is yearly on Android/iOS, one-time on Win/MacOS.

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

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Post by Pxtl »

hallarempt wrote: post #180
Pxtl wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Great, thanks!

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

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Post by hallarempt »

woolion wrote: post #173
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/…

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…

We didn't do an update on that, because that post got us into big trouble with inland revenue (Dutch) in 2017...

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

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

29athrowaway wrote: post #117
pmayrgundter wrote: post #5

I used to use Gimp for photoshop type operations but it's become unusable for me due to slowness, even with a M1 native build. No idea what's up. Tried Krita and it works great

Gimp has not yet been converted to GTK 3 and now GTK 4 is out. Gimp looks pretty bad in HiDPI and the GTK 3 build is not yet stable.

Ardour has not yet converted to GTK 3 and now ....

does it matter?

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

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Post by nojonestownpls »

tekla wrote: post #145
uberdoogle wrote: post #2

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JFC, when did the world suddenly become full of prudes that see sexuality in everything,

This is not even a prude thing, based on further replies on this thread, I actually find it disturbing how they can take the most innocent of images and find it sexually suggestive. The only requirement to trigger "semi-nsfw" seems to be that the character is female. If this is prudishness, it's the sort of prudishness that's caricatured as coming from repressed perversion of some sort.

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

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Post by bee_rider »

sigstoat wrote: post #98
SahAssar wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Huh. Free as in mattress, I got the negative implication.

Free as in piano, thought it was some kind of… I dunno, almost a pun or something. In some places, people will play piano in public, performing for passers by, or just for their own entertainment.

“Free as in beer” has the implication of being probably a bait and switch or having some strings attached. “Free as in speech” has an implication of having some significant political statement; I mean, “free speech” covers trivial speech too of course, but it isn’t how we usually use the expression.

The idea of software more like a funny song that’s been released into the universe is a bit charming. I like my misinterpretation better than the real thing, I think.

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

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Post by bee_rider »

kzrdude wrote: post #73
acapybara wrote: post #17

As 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.…

Why is free the only word that's consistently spelled in all uppercase? All throughout commercial text. It is kind of tacky at this point.

It is a bit weird.

Although, I don’t see “FREE” all that often (other than this case). I see “Free” more often, which I take as making the free as in liberated, not free as in zero cost distinction.

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

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Post by dang »

Related:

Is Krita ready for HDR painting? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35736913 - April 2023 (6 comments)

Krita 5.1 Release Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32517739 - Aug 2022 (5 comments)

Krita 5.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660463 - Dec 2021 (89 comments)

First Beta for Krita 5.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28226681 - Aug 2021 (58 comments)

Krita 4.4.2 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25898325 - Jan 2021 (22 comments)

Krita 4.4.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24775216 - Oct 2020 (138 comments)

Krita, OpenGL and Qt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878728 - July 2020 (205 comments)

Krita 4.3.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638144 - June 2020 (83 comments)

First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281634 - May 2020 (127 comments)

Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831164 - Dec 2019 (17 comments)

Back from the Blender Conference - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357906 - Oct 2019 (57 comments)

Making crochet animation in Krita and Kdenlive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485881 - March 2019 (6 comments)

Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19388091 - March 2019 (47 comments)

Krita in 2018 and 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18768747 - Dec 2018 (46 comments)

Krita 4.1.3 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083149 - Sept 2018 (37 comments)

Krita in the Windows Store: an update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651281 - July 2018 (60 comments)

Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16647445 - March 2018 (191 comments)

Krita Foundation: Update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14910829 - Aug 2017 (65 comments)

Krita Foundation in Trouble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14899155 - Aug 2017 (226 comments)

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13586945 - Feb 2017 (14 comments)

Whew, what a year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13290718 - Dec 2016 (23 comments)

Open Source Motion Comic Done Entirely with Blender, Krita and GNU/Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381924 - Aug 2016 (18 comments)

Krita brushes for game artists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281408 - Aug 2016 (5 comments)

Krita 3.0: The Animation Release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810802 - May 2016 (43 comments)

First Krita 3.0 pre-alpha - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10920092 - Jan 2016 (1 comment)

Krita – free digital painting app crowd-funding goes live on kickstarter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9484828 - May 2015 (2 comments)

The complete story of Paris-8 university going for Krita, Blender, Natron - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250461 - March 2015 (1 comment)

‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8897835 - Jan 2015 (197 comments)

Krita (open source painting software) is on Kickstarter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7964241 - June 2014 (4 comments)

FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7199040 - Feb 2014 (97 comments)

Ten years of working on Krita - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482242 - Oct 2013 (11 comments)

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