Krita FTW
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Just a friendly reminder example for all those people who only ever heard of GIMP and not wanting to let go of their Adobe products because they don't like GIMP. Krita deserves more wide spread attention. https://krita.org/en/features/
I feel like I'm the only person who can't make heads or tails of Krita's interface. I can work with GIMP. I can easily find all the tools I need for simple to intermediate edits. But with Krita I find myself unable to even do simple stuff.
Some of David's tutorials will help ? https://www.davidrevoy.com/categorie3/tutorials-brushes-extras or https://www.davidrevoy.com/static5/table-of-content
You are not the only one. I'm so used to GIMP, its hard to get used to Krita. It's installed and I try it from time to time. Besides the horrendous text editing tool of Krita, it has features that are worth learning and getting used to. I think it will take time before we are used to it.
People say that GIMP has bad UI, but this could be said about Krita too. Basically any new complex tool has bad UI, because its new...
Yep. I just grew up with Gimp. I've used Krita a few times and might get used to it if I use it some more, but GIMP is forever my goto raster paint program
I feel like I’m the only person who can’t make heads or tails of
It doesn't matter if you get the result you want. The important thing is you have choice and that what you have chosen ... works!
Small mention for Darktable as an alternative to Lightroom.
indeed, darktable is awesome!
Or Inkscape as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator/ Corel Draw/ vectorial design. (The KDE alt would be Karbon, I haven't tried it tho.)
I remember when Photoshop was just that program you used to take aa picture of a boat and a picture of a road and combine them to make a boat sailing through concrete, then you show it to mom and she goes "oh that's meet sweetie" then you show it to grandpa and he gets all like "HOLY FUCK THATS AMAZING!!!"
Now when people make amazing artwork on one software but then somehow can't find the equivalency or accept the different scope on others and give them bad reviews
I really like krita though and I use it with one of the cheaper huion tablets for when I want to draw dumb shit like genetalia monsters or ideas for welding projects.
There's an android version too, for any non-apple tableteers.
Yes, good call. On F-Droid too : https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.krita/
Yes, but it's not fully optimized for android
I found it kinda weird that the page this link opens on makes it look kinda like a closed source freemium thing, and (on mobile) I had to dig a fair bit to see that it's actually FOSS and an official part of the KDE project.
I run KDE as my daily driver, and hadn't heard of Krita before; so yeah, I guess it could use a bit more exposure.
Thanks I haven't seen it but GIMP just makes me frustrated. Great for what it is but not intuitive for me.
Next GIMP 3.0 release has huge update to its UI and function. You should check it out.
Oh very cool. I will.
Been using Krita for a long while, and I love it. Fantastic alternative to Photoshop and other art programs and image editors.
If I’m coming from Adobe, how much will I be missing?
(This looks awesome btw, I’m just trying to be informed)
CMYK color space for printing.
Unless you're talking artwork for professional print shops, people have been printing out RGB pictures for decades. Otherwise, imagemagick will convert the files for you in a single command (note that this solution has also been available for at least 12 years). All you need is the ICC profiles.
Heck, any print company worth their salt will convert the colour space of your file(s) for a fee if all else fails.
GIMP is very different, but Krita is quite similar. Pretty sure you won't miss much. However, I am not an advanced user, so, I cannot say for certain. Also, some shortcuts are different. But do try Krita. It is awesome.
I struggle to use krita and the basic functions are a bit annoying. I find myself having to look up things a lot when I try to use it.
That's how I feel with Photoshop. I grew up with fireworks and still to this day I miss the workflow fireworks allowed. I've never found an exact replacement for it. It was easier for me to completely soft too a new paradigm and use inkscape, than it was to use Photoshop. I've not tried krita yet though but I'm less of a "drawer", at least at the moment anyway.
I thought Krita was more popular than Gimp
Gimp works great for me. The only thing it's lacking is CMYK editing, and Krita also doesn't have that. I have to do my graphics editing on Windows.
You probably already looked into the Separate+ plugin? But yeah, even now native CMYK support is lacking because — chicken, meet egg — there hasn't been a lot of support from the graphics industries toward development of that feature.
Gimp is horrible branding and should be renamed.
I disagree. It's memorable and cool, and a great program.
Maybe 30 to 70% agree with you. Maybe 15 to 35 percent do not care.
Pretty much anyone outside Western area will think GIMP as cool branding, or at least neutral.
Let's remember that language is diverse and even English itself is different between area.
If Indian English or Singaporean English speaker force every English speaker to adhere to their standard, everyone would be mad.
Whatever came out of the renamed fork? I can't even remember the name they chose.
The name was glimpse, if I recall correctly.
I think it was abandoned.. but I'm not certain.
I tried to look that up 4 or 7 months ago about.
Limitless Peace
I came here to comment on the artwork, which is beautiful. ❤️
+1 for Krita, so good!
There’s inkscape, Corel (Corel has better like effect or manipulation than Inkscape), blender doesn’t work because it’s sold somewhere else or that’s what auto desk maya is. Or it’s similar. But what the fuck I thought you were designing cars and doing engineering on those things, but I guess a car does look like a shoe. Everyone can buy a nike shoe as a car.
But what do you make assets with, whoops gimp is just for the images, so you bind them together to make it 3d. All different formats were sometimes was hiding jpg as something else that can go into something, on certain computers you can anything and just have to crack it by seeing what’s in front of it and then computer could read it, that’s why encryption wasn’t that great. It’s like you’d have to use adobe to use the game maker game engine.
Usually everything for major video games is scanned into computers by 3d scanning. We just didn’t want certain cool designer shit getting tossed in there, a lot of work went into stuff.
Just Remember, Krita Is For Digital Painting, Not For Photo Manipulation.
Photoshop has tons of users that use it for digital painting
I think they are just trying to set expectations. A ton of people conflate digital painting and photo manipulation so if an app can’t do both like Photoshop they think it’s trash.
The link quite literally says