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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 robomartin »

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.…

> As a long-time user and supporter of Krita,

How does Krita compare to GIMP?

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

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Post by Vrondi »

tekla wrote: post #113
jrm4 wrote: post #87

Genuine and serious praise for not insisting on sticking with an absurdly embarassing and arguably problematic name that would be likely to hamper adoption for quite some time, unlike a certain other free and open source painting program.

What is absurd and problematic about GIMP?

Off the top of my head: the word "gimped" is similar in meaning to "handicapped", and if someone "is a gimp", then that could be considered similar to saying someone "is a cripple". Although I have no clue what any of that has to do with Krita.

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

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Post by commoner »

RobotToaster wrote: post #32
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.…

"“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish wo…

Rule of thumb: when you see the phrase "free and open source software" (FOSS), the word "free" in that phrase refers to freedom, not price.

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

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Post by cynthedesign »

hirako2000 wrote: post #71
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

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?

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

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Post by ok123456 »

nojonestownpls wrote: post #47
raincole wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How... how is that semi-NSFW...?

"It's not from my culture and I find unfamiliar things scary, so I'm gonna call it NSFW"

Anime fandom, at least among online westerners, seems to primarily sexualize the cartoons. People who are aware of this may not want to have it displayed in a professional setting.

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

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Post by hellofriends1 »

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.…

> the choice of emphasizing "FREE" in all caps in this headline.

You’re welcome to fork it and try to sell it if you think that’s such a great idea.

Anyway are you going to blame the user? I will. It sucks people pay for a $3 coffee or a cigs or chips not software they use for even 10s. Maybe figure out a way to make software physiologically addictive like coffee tobacco and junk food, and you can bypass the two decades of cultural programming of 4b people to value intangibles at 0.

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

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Post by PrimeMcFly »

horstmeyer wrote: post #50
PrimeMcFly wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is the US still largely abides by and enforces human rights. Major powers will always do crappy stuff, I think, but there is a difference in degree.

Ever heard of Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib?

Sure. I don't think that detracts from my point at all.

I'm not saying the US hasn't done horrible things, I'm saying they are orders of magnitude less horrible than other big powers.

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

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Post by potta_coffee »

webstrand wrote: post #74
kps wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vouching never seems to work for me. I used to use it when I thought a comment had been unfairly flagged even when I disagreed with it (as in this case), and I suspect I've had my vouching ability shadow-disabled for diverging from the mean. Regular downvoting is bad enough, but flagging is effectively an unassailable super-downvote.

I've been using HN for a decade, I thought it was free of the disease of downvoting.

I wish that were so but it fairly obviously isn't. Just jump on a thread about politics or vaccination or any other cultural issue.

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

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Post by ZeWaka »

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/…

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.
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