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Krita 3.0: The Animation Release

269 points by r3bl 10y ago

nwah1 10y ago
Love Krita. This upgrade to QT5 will provide an important base for future development. The brisk pace of development is encouraging. Although I still find myself using GIMP and Inkscape for usability reasons. But, given that they are being developed at a snail's pace, I tend to think I will be increasingly using Krita.
- macco 10y ago
  Do they really compete with each other? I thought they would complement each other, am I wrong?
  - lake99 10y ago
    I think they complement each other. Gimp is probably powerful, but I by the time I figure out how to do something, I forget what I was trying to do in the first place. Krita is easy to use, but can't do SVG. And Inkscape is still the best for SVG.
    - emilsedgh 10y ago
      One of the major goals of this year for Krita is improved SVG support. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-m...
  - TD-Linux 10y ago
    The overlap between GIMP and Krita is quite large. In general, at this point Krita is mostly a superset of the GIMP - though I still use GIMP a lot due to familiarity. Also, Krita is a must for >8bit images at the moment.
    - HelloNurse 10y ago
      On the other hand, GIMP supports palette-based editing.
      - thedaemon 10y ago
        Neither of which I would use for palette based pixel pushing. For that I use something like Promotion or Aseprite. I tried to pixel with Gimp and found it frustrating. I use Krita for painting and sketch work (animation now) with my Wacom or Surface Pro, I use Gimp or FireAlpaca (new on the scene) for manipulation and finally Promotion or Aseprite for pixel work. There is really no killer drawing application that does it all. Which is probably a good thing.
  - lmm 10y ago
    They're both general-purpose image editors, no? No doubt each has things it does that the other doesn't, but I would expect each to aim to subsume all the other's features.
    - distances 10y ago
      Krita is more really an artistic tool, and less of a general image editor such as Gimp. Or as Wikipedia puts it, "Krita is designed to be a digital painting application."
SwellJoe 10y ago
Krita has come a long way since I last looked at it. I had no idea it was still so actively developed. Super cool. I don't do a lot of visual stuff, and I've always reached for Gimp or Inkscape when I need to...but, seeing some of the stuff Krita can do makes me wanna give it a try next time I need art.
- baldfat 10y ago
  I was one of the few that really was disappointed in the change of Krita from a better Gimp (In my opinion) to a Painting Program. I still funded the project and just trusted the vision of the team. They really have hit a home run and they are a shinning example of what Open Source can do. Now here is hoping Gimp can learn and blow away the competition in raster image processing.
- kolme 10y ago
  Krita is my absolute favorite tool when I'm drawing with a Wacom. It gets out of the way and let you get in "the zone" and has many powerful features. It's just fantastic.
lqdc13 10y ago
Seems really buggy on OSX (just drew two rectangles and filled them with colors - some parts of the rectangle don't appear until you zoom in and then back out 2x). Paint for Windows still seems like the single best drawing program for simple things.
- scardine 10y ago
  Krita is for art, not for simple things - comparing it with paint is kind of disrespectful even if meant as a joke. It has an amazing selection of preset brushes and my personal experience with it is joyful.
  - King-Aaron 10y ago
    That's really where a lot of these suites come into their own. There's a myriad of applications that can paint and draw. Really, I don't see any need for anything other than Photoshop in my normal day-to-day workflow. But if you're wanting to freehand something with a tablet, for instance, having some specialised brushes and features that are fine-tuned by artists for artists can quite often make it a much 'nicer' experience. I feel all the examples on this site could have been achieved in any other capable suite. However whether or not the artist enjoyed creating them is where the point of difference lies.
  - lmm 10y ago
    Krita is good for simple things too. If the simple parts aren't usable enough to replace paint's use cases, that's a problem that should be fixed.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >Krita is for art, not for simple things - comparing it with paint is kind of disrespectful even if meant as a joke. That doesn't even make sense. First of all, it's not "for art" as some abstract ideal, it's for drawing and graphic design. Which includes "simple things" like drawing perfect circles and triangles in the day-to-day requirements. Second, nothing about "art" (even high art) precludes it being good at the things the parent mentions. If anything, they should be a prerequisite. Artists have used rulers and compasses in real life since forever.
emilsedgh 10y ago
Krita is having a Kickstarter campaign [0] to fund next year's development. There is also a blog post [1] describing how Krita is funded and as you can see, the Kickstarter campaign plays a huge role in its development. So if you are a Krita user, consider funding the campaign. [0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-m... [1] https://krita.org/item/funding-kritas-development/ https://krita.org/item/funding-kritas-development/ Edit: The campaign has already reached its goal, but there are stretch goals to achieve.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  Really happy to see some real contributions! Maybe crowdfunding and Open Source has a bright future together?
bobajeff 10y ago
Now that Krita has finished the QT5 port I wonder if we'll see a touch version for Android and iOS soon.
- reddotX 10y ago
  and Ubuntu Phone
  - boudewijnrempt 10y ago
    Well, we broke the tablet gui we had when we ported to Qt5. It's going to take some time to restore in a sensible way. I do want Krita on my Android Hybrid Cintiq Companion, but I worry that that tablet is not powerful enough...
- konart 10y ago
  https://krita.org/download/krita-gemini/ https://krita.org/download/krita-gemini/ this?
0x54MUR41 10y ago
Love Krita. By the way, out of topic here. Does Krita support for note-sketching? I know the most of use cases using Krita is sketching characters.
unixhero 10y ago
Yay. I use Krita for all my Photoshop-like needs. Now it just got Even better.
wingerlang 10y ago
Krita means crayon in Swedish, fitting.
- vram22 10y ago
  Also based on an ancient Indian concept, says: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita
- unwind 10y ago
  The original author is German. From the About page: The name KImageShop fell foul of trademark law in Germany, and KImageShop was renamed to Krayon, which also appeared to infringe on an existing trademark, so Krayon was finally renamed to Krita in 2002. Of course, "Krita" can also be read as K-rita, where "rita" means "draw" in Swedish (but not in German) and the K is the usual Qt/KDE prefix. However, here[0] is a mailing list message from 2002 that answers: it is the Swedish work [sic] for crayon. So it seems you're really spot on. [0] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kimageshop/2002-November/000060.html https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kimageshop/2002-November/0000...
  - wingerlang 10y ago
    I'd hope so, as it is my native tongue.
tehrei 10y ago
Artists who use Linux always seemed like a crazy bunch. Btw, if anyone needs a simple image editor for Linux, I can't recommend Pinta enough. It's basically Paint.NET. Gimp didn't have the one feature I need - drawing lines, squares, circles, etc. and Kolourpaint doesn't have layers.
baldfat 10y ago
> Linux AppImages – Now different Linux users can have the latest version without waiting on their distribution repository updates. This sounds REALLY interesting. I am dying to see how the Debian community takes to this idea. http://appimage.org/ http://appimage.org/ > Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.
kzrdude 10y ago
MyPaint still exists and its 1.2 release is a very nice program. It's more focused and has less features than Krita, but it's also very ergonomic to work with. Does anyone know if MyPaint is likely to stick around, when Krita is developing so much?
- thedaemon 10y ago
  I have since stopped using MyPaint and have even uninstalled it. Krita does the same and more these days.

269 points by r3bl 10y ago

nwah1 10y ago

Love Krita. This upgrade to QT5 will provide an important base for future development. The brisk pace of development is encouraging. Although I still find myself using GIMP and Inkscape for usability reasons. But, given that they are being developed at a snail's pace, I tend to think I will be increasingly using Krita.

macco 10y ago
Do they really compete with each other? I thought they would complement each other, am I wrong?
- lake99 10y ago
  I think they complement each other. Gimp is probably powerful, but I by the time I figure out how to do something, I forget what I was trying to do in the first place. Krita is easy to use, but can't do SVG. And Inkscape is still the best for SVG.
  - emilsedgh 10y ago
    One of the major goals of this year for Krita is improved SVG support. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-m...
- TD-Linux 10y ago
  The overlap between GIMP and Krita is quite large. In general, at this point Krita is mostly a superset of the GIMP - though I still use GIMP a lot due to familiarity. Also, Krita is a must for >8bit images at the moment.
  - HelloNurse 10y ago
    On the other hand, GIMP supports palette-based editing.
    - thedaemon 10y ago
      Neither of which I would use for palette based pixel pushing. For that I use something like Promotion or Aseprite. I tried to pixel with Gimp and found it frustrating. I use Krita for painting and sketch work (animation now) with my Wacom or Surface Pro, I use Gimp or FireAlpaca (new on the scene) for manipulation and finally Promotion or Aseprite for pixel work. There is really no killer drawing application that does it all. Which is probably a good thing.
- lmm 10y ago
  They're both general-purpose image editors, no? No doubt each has things it does that the other doesn't, but I would expect each to aim to subsume all the other's features.
  - distances 10y ago
    Krita is more really an artistic tool, and less of a general image editor such as Gimp. Or as Wikipedia puts it, "Krita is designed to be a digital painting application."

SwellJoe 10y ago

Krita has come a long way since I last looked at it. I had no idea it was still so actively developed. Super cool. I don't do a lot of visual stuff, and I've always reached for Gimp or Inkscape when I need to...but, seeing some of the stuff Krita can do makes me wanna give it a try next time I need art.

baldfat 10y ago
I was one of the few that really was disappointed in the change of Krita from a better Gimp (In my opinion) to a Painting Program. I still funded the project and just trusted the vision of the team. They really have hit a home run and they are a shinning example of what Open Source can do. Now here is hoping Gimp can learn and blow away the competition in raster image processing.
kolme 10y ago
Krita is my absolute favorite tool when I'm drawing with a Wacom. It gets out of the way and let you get in "the zone" and has many powerful features. It's just fantastic.

lqdc13 10y ago

Seems really buggy on OSX (just drew two rectangles and filled them with colors - some parts of the rectangle don't appear until you zoom in and then back out 2x). Paint for Windows still seems like the single best drawing program for simple things.

scardine 10y ago
Krita is for art, not for simple things - comparing it with paint is kind of disrespectful even if meant as a joke. It has an amazing selection of preset brushes and my personal experience with it is joyful.
- King-Aaron 10y ago
  That's really where a lot of these suites come into their own. There's a myriad of applications that can paint and draw. Really, I don't see any need for anything other than Photoshop in my normal day-to-day workflow. But if you're wanting to freehand something with a tablet, for instance, having some specialised brushes and features that are fine-tuned by artists for artists can quite often make it a much 'nicer' experience. I feel all the examples on this site could have been achieved in any other capable suite. However whether or not the artist enjoyed creating them is where the point of difference lies.
- lmm 10y ago
  Krita is good for simple things too. If the simple parts aren't usable enough to replace paint's use cases, that's a problem that should be fixed.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >Krita is for art, not for simple things - comparing it with paint is kind of disrespectful even if meant as a joke. That doesn't even make sense. First of all, it's not "for art" as some abstract ideal, it's for drawing and graphic design. Which includes "simple things" like drawing perfect circles and triangles in the day-to-day requirements. Second, nothing about "art" (even high art) precludes it being good at the things the parent mentions. If anything, they should be a prerequisite. Artists have used rulers and compasses in real life since forever.

emilsedgh 10y ago

Krita is having a Kickstarter campaign [0] to fund next year's development. There is also a blog post [1] describing how Krita is funded and as you can see, the Kickstarter campaign plays a huge role in its development. So if you are a Krita user, consider funding the campaign. [0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-m... [1] https://krita.org/item/funding-kritas-development/ https://krita.org/item/funding-kritas-development/ Edit: The campaign has already reached its goal, but there are stretch goals to achieve.

reitanqild 10y ago
Really happy to see some real contributions! Maybe crowdfunding and Open Source has a bright future together?

bobajeff 10y ago

Now that Krita has finished the QT5 port I wonder if we'll see a touch version for Android and iOS soon.

reddotX 10y ago
and Ubuntu Phone
- boudewijnrempt 10y ago
  Well, we broke the tablet gui we had when we ported to Qt5. It's going to take some time to restore in a sensible way. I do want Krita on my Android Hybrid Cintiq Companion, but I worry that that tablet is not powerful enough...
konart 10y ago
https://krita.org/download/krita-gemini/ https://krita.org/download/krita-gemini/ this?

0x54MUR41 10y ago

Love Krita. By the way, out of topic here. Does Krita support for note-sketching? I know the most of use cases using Krita is sketching characters.

unixhero 10y ago

Yay. I use Krita for all my Photoshop-like needs. Now it just got Even better.

wingerlang 10y ago

Krita means crayon in Swedish, fitting.

vram22 10y ago
Also based on an ancient Indian concept, says: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita
unwind 10y ago
The original author is German. From the About page: The name KImageShop fell foul of trademark law in Germany, and KImageShop was renamed to Krayon, which also appeared to infringe on an existing trademark, so Krayon was finally renamed to Krita in 2002. Of course, "Krita" can also be read as K-rita, where "rita" means "draw" in Swedish (but not in German) and the K is the usual Qt/KDE prefix. However, here[0] is a mailing list message from 2002 that answers: it is the Swedish work [sic] for crayon. So it seems you're really spot on. [0] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kimageshop/2002-November/000060.html https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kimageshop/2002-November/0000...
- wingerlang 10y ago
  I'd hope so, as it is my native tongue.

tehrei 10y ago

Artists who use Linux always seemed like a crazy bunch. Btw, if anyone needs a simple image editor for Linux, I can't recommend Pinta enough. It's basically Paint.NET. Gimp didn't have the one feature I need - drawing lines, squares, circles, etc. and Kolourpaint doesn't have layers.

baldfat 10y ago

> Linux AppImages – Now different Linux users can have the latest version without waiting on their distribution repository updates. This sounds REALLY interesting. I am dying to see how the Debian community takes to this idea. http://appimage.org/ http://appimage.org/ > Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

kzrdude 10y ago

MyPaint still exists and its 1.2 release is a very nice program. It's more focused and has less features than Krita, but it's also very ergonomic to work with. Does anyone know if MyPaint is likely to stick around, when Krita is developing so much?

thedaemon 10y ago
I have since stopped using MyPaint and have even uninstalled it. Krita does the same and more these days.