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Krita 4.1.3 Released
- jphoward 8y agoThe wonderful thing about Krita isn't it's features (although they are excellent); it's the fact it's the only graphics program with modern capabilities that someone could transition into from Microsoft Paint without needing to load up a series of YouTube tutorials. I commend the Krita team for not merely copying Photoshop/GIMP, but actually writing a program an idiot like me can pick up and actually be productive with.
- kapauldo 8y agoI came here to ask what it was, this comment was super valuable and resonated ( gimp is awesome and difficult).
- mrec 8y agoIMHO Paint.NET is pretty approachable too, but it never hurts to have options.
- earenndil 8y agoPaint.net is windows-only, though.
- mrec 8y agoYes, but so is Paint, which GP was talking about transitioning from.
- earenndil 8y agoMy understanding was that they were transitioning from paint (to krita or paint.net or something else). So krita has cross-platform going for it as a paint.net alternative.
- morganvachon 8y agoPinta is a Mono-based clone of Paint.net for Linux. I am a heavy Paint.net user at work and I find Pinta at home to be just as useful. I haven't used Gimp in years. I do have Krita both at work on Windows and at home on Linux, but I rarely have to pull it out unless I need a tool specific to that application.
- boudewijnrempt 8y agoThanks :-)
- forgotpwd16 8y agoPaint.NET/Pinta and XPaint are made as enhanced Paint, so someone that wants a not-trivial graphics editor will find those perfect. >I commend the Krita team for not merely copying Photoshop/GIMP Krita (as well as MyPaint) is mainly a painting software whereas Photoshop/GIMP are mainly photo editors. You can do similar things in both, but they target different niches.
- egypturnash 8y agoPhotoshop STARTED OUT as a photo editor but it has grown to become a sprawling beast that has long since incorporated painting tools. Photoshop does not target any one niche any more; it can do photo editing, it can paint, it can animate, it’s got some vector capabilities... there’s a ton of professional artists who use Photoshop for a painterly workflow. Do not be fooled by its name. That merely tells you where it began; it does not tell you what it is useful for after nearly thirty years of adding on one feature after another.
- boudewijnrempt 8y agoThese days, Adobe is even nicking features we did first in Krita for their application! Apparently, painting is a focus again...
- forgotpwd16 8y agoIndeed, the "they target different niches" was meant for GIMP, since are those (as lead FOSS programs) that are usually compared.
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- jcelerier 8y agoinfinitely more features than Slack and uses infinitely less memory :p
- wyldfire 8y agoWhy compare memory consumption of a image editing program to a chat service?
- alias_neo 8y agoPerhaps, because arguably, an image editing software should be using a lot MORE memory than a chat service? I appreciated the comment as a light humoured jab at the insane amount of memory slack needs just to send some text to each other (over simplification).
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- criddell 8y agoIt's really just a thinly veiled attack on Electron.
- james-skemp 8y agoSorry, but I think you're wrong. VS Code is based on Electron and runs great. I read it as a comment on Slack's performance, not as an attack on Electron.
- criddell 8y agoEvery post about VS Code on HN inevitably contains criticism about it's Electron foundation. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15599319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15599319
- chmln 8y agoNo, VSCode doesn't run great. Maybe compared to IntelliJ and Visual Studio, but far worse than sublime text and vim. I have ~2ms input latency using vim on xterm. I doubt VSCode can ever achieve this kind of performance, simply due to the poor architectural decision of using electron and JavaScript.