what? is this free?
Yes
Krita 5.2
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Re: Krita 5.2
#42what? is this free?
Yep, GPLv3, it is indeed Free.
Re: Krita 5.2
#43I 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 i…
Inkscape is a little buggy and unintuitive at times, but once you get used to its idiosyncrasies it's fine. For example, if you want to select a layer and move it with the keyboard, you can switch to another tool (like the node tool) and then back to the select tool and the arrow keys will work.
Re: Krita 5.2
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Krita shortcuts were not chosen by someone who draw. Why do you need 2 hands to rotate the view , one of my hand have the pen in it ?!?
I press Ctrl-Shift (or was it Ctrl-Alt?) with the left hand and rotate with the pen. Sorry muscle memory only.
I think it's just Shift.
Re: Krita 5.2
#45I think the project would do better with a different mascot. Krita is good software, but that mascot just sends the wrong vibes.
Good luck with that. People here have trouble understanding why Gimp isn't the best of names.
If you don't want to see it you can use --no-splash (or something like that).
Re: Krita 5.2
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?"
Should of, would of, could of.
Re: Krita 5.2
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 i…
Inkscape is a little buggy and unintuitive at times, but once you get used to its idiosyncrasies it's fine. For example, if you want to select a layer and move it with the keyboard, you can switch to another tool (like the node tool) and then back to the select tool and the arrow keys will work.
I just launched Inkscape (a recent version) for the first time in quite a while.
Not bad! And I enjoy that its default selection mode is the one I find most important in vector-art applications: select only things that are totally enclosed by the selection marquee.
Illustrator isn't even capable of selecting this way as an option, which makes it a monumentally tedious, deal-breaking PITA to use. And, of course, people have been complaining about this for decades now. Ignored by Adobe. So much for their "subscription model will allow us to do more timely bug fixes and enhancements" lie.
Re: Krita 5.2
#48Re: Krita 5.2
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Could of?"
Should of, would of, could of.
As tempting as it would admittedly be to get into an extended argument with someone online over prescriptivism and descriptivism in English grammar, it has nothing to do with Krita, so it's imo better not to engage with these kinds of really off-topic comments. Not that I'm always good at resisting the urge myself ;)
Re: Krita 5.2
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
In my experience, unlike an SVG path that has a single line thickness and opacity value, a vector stroke in Clip Studio Paint has thickness and opacity data per point. In addition, these points can have image textures, just like the raster brushes. These features make the vector path better depict a hand-drawn stroke. A Clip Studio user can easily switch between vector and raster mode with the same brush, but Krita cannot achieve this.
The Blender Grease Pencil also represents vector data in this way (per-point attributes). I find it promising and try to develop add-ons for it. But I am not familiar with Krita plug-in development and do not know how much its vector painting can be improved.