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Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by DemocracyFTW »

fault1 wrote: post #35
hallarempt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Krita was started in the previous millenium, too. I've been Krita's maintainer since 2004... If I have to think about what I did with my life, https://krita.org/en/about/krita-releases-overview/ comes to mind :-)

Wow, this guy really sounds like a winner: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Freiherr_von_Grave...

Just read this guy's vita. An entire long life of profit-oriented road rage, always using the law and presumably his connections to go after like everyone else for minor copyright and similar offenses, striving to make this planet a more miserable place for everyone else while raking in for himself. At almost 90 yo he finally got convicted for fraud and rather killed himself instead of going to jail. Not even his high-falutin name is all that real. At some point he tried to get courts deny people the right to even mention the fact that he was not born as a Von And Zu. Christ what an asshole.

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by divingdragon »

geenat wrote: post #42

Hate to say it but grid snap still seems to be broken: https://imgur.com/g5yMFvp.mp4 Why is the handle not straight with the grid?

May I tempt you to file a bug report on bugs.kde.org? I'm not sure if the devs even know about this bug, let alone fixing it.

Edit: Ah nevermind, I think I found the relevant report.

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by DemocracyFTW »

hallarempt wrote: post #75
Shared404 wrote: post #66

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Any chance you could drop a tl;dr for those of us who don't read German? Poked around a bit at Wikipedia, but didn't find anything. Also, thanks for all you do with Krita! It's one of the programs that I don't think I've ever not had installed on my daily driver.

I'm sorry, but it's untranslatable... Both for language and for custom.

"he was an utter asshole" is my take on it. See my earlier comment.

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by fault1 »

Shared404 wrote: post #66
hallarempt wrote: post #41

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Heh,those were "fun" times, and they even predate my own involvement!

Any chance you could drop a tl;dr for those of us who don't read German? Poked around a bit at Wikipedia, but didn't find anything. Also, thanks for all you do with Krita! It's one of the programs that I don't think I've ever not had installed on my daily driver.

here is google's autotranslation:

https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_F...

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by k_sze »

BeetleB wrote: post #68
archerx wrote: post #6

I love Krita it is a great free open source photoshop replacement and does photo editing better than Gimp. People will say Krita is a digital painting program but it still goes photo editing in a much less frustrating way than gimp.

I agree it's less frustrating than Gimp, but as someone who did a lot of photoediting in the latter, Krita's abilities do not really compare with Gimp's. Last time I checked (admittedly years ago), there was no equivalent of Liquid Rescale in Krita. Nor was there smart object removal capability. I think the options for dealing with noise were quite limited, as well.

Krita and GIMP serve different purposes, even though they have some overlapping functionality.

My understanding is that Krita is really for digital drawing, closer to Corel PaintShop Pro; whereas GIMP is for image editing, closer to Photoshop.

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by whateveracct »

hallarempt wrote: post #17
chobytes wrote: post #9

When I tried Krita a few years ago I couldn't imagine using it over things like Clipstudio yet. I am really rooting for Krita though, so Ill probably give it another shot soon.

Clip Studio still has a number of features we don't have yet, but we're regarding it as our main competitor. Now 5.0 is out, we will start looking at fun features again, and we've already made a little list of things CSP has that we want for Krita, too...

Cool to hear CSP is considered your main competitor.

My wife is both a software dev and artist. She loves CSP - if you (and I) manage to sell her on Krita someday, I'll be impressed :)

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by scriptproof »

dagmx wrote: post #59
scriptproof wrote: post #12

I looked at the script language, SeExpr. Look like PHP with math functions. Is this really better than what we have in HTML Canvas?

For reference, SeExpr is only used for a certain amount of scripting (usually around pattern generations etc). It's an industry standard in visual effects and animation workflows and was created by Disney; http://wdas.github.io/SeExpr/ It is not used for general purpose scripting, for which Krita allows you to write Python scripts instead.

That do not answer my question. Is SeExpr + Python better than Canvas + JavaScript. If yes, then how?

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by CanceledAccount »

scriptproof wrote: post #87
dagmx wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For reference, SeExpr is only used for a certain amount of scripting (usually around pattern generations etc). It's an industry standard in visual effects and animation workflows and was created by Disney; http://wdas.github.io/SeExpr/ It is not used for general purpose scripting, for which Krita allows you to write Python scripts instead.

That do not answer my question. Is SeExpr + Python better than Canvas + JavaScript. If yes, then how?

Yes because they are what’s used in CG artwork pipelines. If you are scripting Blender, Houdini, Substance and so on you are using Python not JS.

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by hazza_n_dazza »

jasfi wrote: post #39
hallarempt wrote: post #32

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We sponsor Ramon Miranda, a professional digital artist and art teacher, to create the content for the Krita youtube channel. (Not sure why that post didn't have a reply link...)

That's great that your Open Source project can sponsor contributors!

I like the business model, where MS Store users (and Steam, Epic, Google) pay $10USD and linux users just DL for free.

Re: Krita 5.0

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Post by hazza_n_dazza »

CanceledAccount wrote: post #79
otherme123 wrote: post #30

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There are a lot of paths that are unique to each of them. I bet the reverse (from Gimp to PS) feels the same. My wife asked to make a logo and a leaflet, and I never offered other thing than Inkscape. She ended up using it for almost anything. After a couple of years I bet that she will find Illustrator frustrating.

The difference is that after a week of serious Photoshop training you will have at your fingertips a world class, incredibly powerful piece of software with modern ML tools for smart image manipulation, collaborative tools and cloud infrastructure for syncing documents, plus a massive ecosystem of plugins and assets available to purchase. I say this as someone who strongly dislikes Photoshop. I wish I had a viable al…

Photoshop CS2 is good.
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