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They're not the same. Krita is more of a painting application akin to Illustrator, whereas GIMP is more of a Photoshop-like editor. Also, work on GIMP 3.0[1]
by AsyncAwait 10y ago
They're not the same.
Krita is more of a painting application akin to Illustrator, whereas GIMP is more of a Photoshop-like editor.
Also, work on GIMP 3.0[1] continues, but there's not enough people working on it, so it takes a while.
1 - https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released
- zokier 10y agoWhile I'd agree that GIMP and Krita are not same, I think Krita is still closer to GIMP than Illustrator, Ai being a vector editor.
- eriknstr 10y agoMeanwhile, though probably known to most of the HN crowd it's also worth mentioning Inkscape which is a FOSS alternative to Illustrator of good quality.
- jwdunne 10y agoI agree with that. Some things are a bit different, like PS -> GIMP, but once I had the basic equivalents down, I found it a great tool.
- industropthicus 10y agoAdobe Illustrator is not a paint application. It's a graphic design application. Corel Painter is a digital paint application. [0] Usage differences between these two programs is huge. Usually paint programs lack filters, but specialize in brush macros, biasing behavior in favor of starting with a blank drawing areas. Meanwhile image manipulation programs pretty much have a configurable airbrush and replicate some dark room techniques, and possess a rich filter library, biasing behavior in favor of altering and layering existing content together, after the original creative process. [0] http://www.corel.com/ http://www.corel.com/