FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
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FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
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Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#2I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off.
Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#3Great to hear! Krita is one of the few art programs that has real-time tiling, which seems like a great way to work on textures: http://krita.org/item/196-new-wraparound-tool
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#4I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off. Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.
Krita's just lacking a OSX build. I've been using the windows build for a while. Krita's focus is on digital painting. I would say Krita is more comparable to Corel's Painter instead of Photoshop.
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#5I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off. Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.
it[']s rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off.
Standing on the shoulders of giants certainly makes it easier to see.
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#6I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off. Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.
it[']s rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off. Standing on the shoulders of giants certainly makes it easier to see.
Krita was started in 1999, only four years after GIMP. For most of their existence, these two programs have been developed in parallel.
http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.h...
Part of the reason Krita development has accelerated massively in the last couple of years is that its team decided on a clear mission statement at some point, one very different from GIMP: Krita is a painting app first. The main use cases are painting, illustration and texture-making. That it's also quite useful for cases GIMP traditionally aims at (photo editing, web graphics) are down to toolset overlap between the use cases and a robust, modern tech foundation (colorspace-independent implementation strategies, etc.), but Krita isn't actually trying to compete with GIMP and ventures into territory GIMP doesn't really serve.
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#7Great to hear! Krita is one of the few art programs that has real-time tiling, which seems like a great way to work on textures: http://krita.org/item/196-new-wraparound-tool
Nice. I've wanted a tiling tool like that for ages.
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#8Serious question: how is Krita a "Photoshop killer" and GIMP not one?
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#9Photoshop is not mainly a painting application, though it can be used as one.
The strength of Photoshop is in its automation, ability to integrate with all kinds of things, ability to open a hundred different formats by default, plugins, 16-bit-per-channel support, color management, work with huge files, etc etc etc.
This looks like a competitor for ArtRage or Corel Paint.
Re: FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
it[']s rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off. Standing on the shoulders of giants certainly makes it easier to see.
Krita was started in 1999, only four years after GIMP. For most of their existence, these two programs have been developed in parallel. http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/ http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.h... Part of the reason Krita development has accelerated massively in the last couple of years is that its team decided on a clear mission statement at some point,…
Can you compare Krita and MyPaint[1]? (In terms of features, completeness, UI, etc.) From the video, it seems that Krita is a bit more advanced, with image transformations, texture tiling and probably other features. But both programs are digital painting applications, much more than GIMP, which is a generic graphics editor.