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Re: Krita 5.2

#31

Post by neonnoodle »

mkl wrote: post #28
danShumway wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have, I couldn't get into it. Might have been a learning curve issue; Grease pencil also had a giant learning curve and I've only recently started to feel more comfortable with it. But I just found Inkscape really awkward and clunky to use for any kind of illustration or free-drawing. I think Blender in some ways might have an advantage there because there are enough obvious cool features with Grease pencil (3D int…

Inkscape is good for many things, but not for painting.

I recently started doing more vector work as preliminary layouts/color flatting for digital painting in other apps and Inkscape has come a long way.

Re: Krita 5.2

#32

Post by neonnoodle »

I prefer to do digital sketching/painting on an iPad these days, but on desktop I’m using increasingly more FOSS-based software. Adobe products are sometimes absolutely essential but between Krita, Inkscape and Blender I feel pretty confident for most digital image manipulation. It’s actually kind of a golden age of usable free software these days for artists!

Re: Krita 5.2

#33

Post by chrisnight »

tofflos wrote: post #20

I found it difficult to get started with Krita because it doesn't automatically pan when you try to draw beyond the edge of the current view when using a drawing tablet. I wrote about it on https://krita-artists.org/t/how-can-you-have-automatic-panni... a couple of months ago and now filed an issue at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475481 after observing the same behavior in 5.2 Any chance of seeing this featur…

Any time that I have used automatic panning, it's always felt like a bad solution to the problem of the trade-off between view size and detail. It's clunky and unintuitive with how it essentially forces the mouse to move (relative to the screen), just because the mouse is in a specific area. Not to mention many times you go too far or its too slow, and because its purely based off of the mouse location, it can be hard to control.

I'm not exactly sure in what case you would want automatic panning for a standard brush, but even for the straight line tool, I feel it would just be better to allow a user to select the two points individually, without the need for dragging the mouse between the locations without letting it drop.

Re: Krita 5.2

#35

Post by johnnyanmac »

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #34

I think the project would do better with a different mascot. Krita is good software, but that mascot just sends the wrong vibes.

I think this is said in every Krita submission here, but Krita's largest type of audience is cartoon-y fantasy artists. It makes sense for their demographic.

Re: Krita 5.2

#36

Post by johnnyanmac »

anthonybennis wrote: post #6
numlock86 wrote: post #3

I try Krita every now and then (probably will again with this release) but I always find myself going back to Clip Studio Paint at some point. The out of the box experience is just better somehow.

It's limited vector painting tools are what keep me in Clip Studio. It's the first thing I look for with each Krita release.

Not an artist, but what's limiting about the vector painting? Is it something that could be fixed by a plug-in?

Re: Krita 5.2

#37

Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

chrisnight wrote: post #33
tofflos wrote: post #20

I found it difficult to get started with Krita because it doesn't automatically pan when you try to draw beyond the edge of the current view when using a drawing tablet. I wrote about it on https://krita-artists.org/t/how-can-you-have-automatic-panni... a couple of months ago and now filed an issue at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475481 after observing the same behavior in 5.2 Any chance of seeing this featur…

Any time that I have used automatic panning, it's always felt like a bad solution to the problem of the trade-off between view size and detail. It's clunky and unintuitive with how it essentially forces the mouse to move (relative to the screen), just because the mouse is in a specific area. Not to mention many times you go too far or its too slow, and because its purely based off of the mouse location, it can be har…

Yeah I can't imagine automatic panning being usable for a continuous stroke. I could see it if you're doing splines or something, and just need to get to an area of the canvas to click on.

I wonder if auto-zoom-out would be better than auto-pan. As you approach the edge, zoom out to give you more room. Then you're not just dragging blindly against a wall and ending up who knows where.

Re: Krita 5.2

#38

Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

neonnoodle wrote: post #32

I prefer to do digital sketching/painting on an iPad these days, but on desktop I’m using increasingly more FOSS-based software. Adobe products are sometimes absolutely essential but between Krita, Inkscape and Blender I feel pretty confident for most digital image manipulation. It’s actually kind of a golden age of usable free software these days for artists!

I wish Inkscape were a little slicker, because vector-art software is basically moribund at this point.

Illustrator (aside from being part of Adobe's software-rental scam), has been abandoned for years. Affinity Designer is also basically static, as simple-but-important feature requests or bug reports go ignored year after year. I mean... there's no way to set a layer as non-printing, despite continual requests for it. If that's difficult to implement, then the software is hopeless anyway. You also can't enter exact sizes for multiple objects at once. Affinity seems to do the most obscure and dumb thing possible when you try to accomplish simple tasks that are well-understood in every other similar app.

Applications are simply not important to any for-profit company anymore, so we're stuck with the current state of the art, or worse, hideous regressions like those that plague Microsoft Office. Ugh, Word is a depressing shitshow now.

Re: Krita 5.2

#39

Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

danShumway wrote: post #17
tux1968 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the release notes: - Krita now have a Clip Studio Paint compatible shortcut scheme

Wait, is that only now? I'm kind of confused, maybe I've been on a beta branch or something, I could of sworn that was part of 5.1? You're right, I'm looking at the release notes now. But it's a very weird deja vu moment. There are a couple of features listed here that I really thought were already released. I need to check what my upstream is...

"Could of?"
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