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I find this drawing program simpler to use than GIMP, while having lots of advanced functionality and maturity.

by loopz 6y ago

Santosh83 6y ago
GIMP is a general image editing software while Krita focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art, so it is not surprising that you find it more ergonomic for drawing.
- app4soft 6y ago
  > GIMP is a general image editing software while Krita focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art AzPainter is one more app which focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art.[0] [0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Tutorials https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Tutorials
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Yep, https://alvinalexander.com/gimp/gimp-how-to-create-draw-circle-in-gimp-tutorial/ https://alvinalexander.com/gimp/gimp-how-to-create-draw-circ...
  - FeepingCreature 6y ago
    Alternately: Select circle brush, set outer size, paint circle, set inner size, erase circle. Not that the UI isn't terrible.
    - mkl 6y ago
      How do you align the centres doing it that way? Carefully watch the pixel coordinates in the status bar? Edit: Simpler than this or the linked instructions is to use the Ellipse selection tool with shift to select a circle, then do Edit > Stroke Selection. Still pretty wacky.
      - aoloe 6y ago
        One of the recent features I most love in Gimp is "/" to search through the commands. (More and more graphics programs are adopting it.) Once you're used to it, you can create the ellipse selection and type "/stroke"... I guess that unless the Gimp developers change their mind and allow for vector drawing inside of Gimp, it's as comfortable as it can get...
- mschuetz 6y ago
  I don't to digital painting and art and I still prefer Krita. Although prefer is the wrong term, I despise GIMPs botched, unituitive and cumbersome UI so much, I'd rather code a figure in html/javascript and canvas or svg, before I'd use GIMP. Krita on the other hand is relatively nice to use.
  - zelphirkalt 6y ago
    Initially it took some getting used to Gimp, but that was years ago, when I had not used any GNU/Linux distribution and was still a Windows XP user. Now I find Gimp's UI actually pretty logical and everything has its place. Not sure what people talk about when they complain about Gimp UI. Perhaps you can shed some light on the details you do not like?
    - mschuetz 6y ago
      It's been many years since I've used it the last time but I can remember that even the simplest tasks required googling and actively remembering how they were done because nothing was intuitive or logical. And the layer system was virtually unusable, I couldn't figure it out. In Krita or inkscape, the UI just makes much more sense so they are not as infuriating to work with.
      - tux1968 6y ago
        That was my initial feeling about GIMP when I first tried to use it years and years ago. After many false starts and head scratching, the logic of it finally sunk in and now I find it pretty straightforward and logical. You just have to find a way to get over the very frustrating hump of understanding its basic design. But if all your needs are met by a program that doesn't demand that initial investment, all the better.
  - HenriNext 6y ago
    > I despise GIMPs botched, unituitive and cumbersome UI so much Btw there is a new fork of GIMP, called "Glimpse" [1], that tries to improve the UI. Their first release was just a re-branded GIMP, but maybe they'll get something done someday. https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
- jcelerier 6y ago
  even for simple photo cropping / transformation and adjusting brightness / contrast, Krita has a much better UI
  - ubercow13 6y ago
    Krita is nice to use, but for simple things I find Gimp's filters more useful. It now has much better scaling filters than Krita and the colour adjustment filters are useful, especially colour temperature adjustment and auto white balance I use a lot. Also some aspects of Gimp's UI are still superor, for example some filters in Krita only allow adjusting the parameters using text boxes, where in Gimp you can use a slider to interatively adjust each parameter with the mouse.
    - jcelerier 6y ago
      regarding the colour adjustments what do you think of G'MIC ? It integrates quite well in both GIMP and Krita and all the filters can be edited easily with sliders / text boxes / etc..
      - ubercow13 6y ago
        G'MIC is extremely useful and the algorithms in it seem very high quality. Indeed it works great in Krita does make up the difference for the most part, though I don't think it directly replaces the examples I mentioned in Gimp that I like, for example I can't see a generic scaling filter in there. I'm not sure it has a colour temperature adjustment specifically, either.
unixhero 6y ago
Confirmed. I also think so.
II2II 6y ago
I find the two programs complement each other: Krita is amazing for creating artwork, while GIMP's strength lays in image manipulation. Which ever you prefer, open source developers have created some great graphics software (and these two are far from the only examples).

I find this drawing program simpler to use than GIMP, while having lots of advanced functionality and maturity.

by loopz 6y ago

I find this drawing program simpler to use than GIMP, while having lots of advanced functionality and maturity.

GIMP is a general image editing software while Krita focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art, so it is not surprising that you find it more ergonomic for drawing.

app4soft 6y ago
> GIMP is a general image editing software while Krita focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art AzPainter is one more app which focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art.[0] [0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Tutorials https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Tutorials
pjmlp 6y ago
Yep, https://alvinalexander.com/gimp/gimp-how-to-create-draw-circle-in-gimp-tutorial/ https://alvinalexander.com/gimp/gimp-how-to-create-draw-circ...
- FeepingCreature 6y ago
  Alternately: Select circle brush, set outer size, paint circle, set inner size, erase circle. Not that the UI isn't terrible.
  - mkl 6y ago
    How do you align the centres doing it that way? Carefully watch the pixel coordinates in the status bar? Edit: Simpler than this or the linked instructions is to use the Ellipse selection tool with shift to select a circle, then do Edit > Stroke Selection. Still pretty wacky.
    - aoloe 6y ago
      One of the recent features I most love in Gimp is "/" to search through the commands. (More and more graphics programs are adopting it.) Once you're used to it, you can create the ellipse selection and type "/stroke"... I guess that unless the Gimp developers change their mind and allow for vector drawing inside of Gimp, it's as comfortable as it can get...
mschuetz 6y ago
I don't to digital painting and art and I still prefer Krita. Although prefer is the wrong term, I despise GIMPs botched, unituitive and cumbersome UI so much, I'd rather code a figure in html/javascript and canvas or svg, before I'd use GIMP. Krita on the other hand is relatively nice to use.
- zelphirkalt 6y ago
  Initially it took some getting used to Gimp, but that was years ago, when I had not used any GNU/Linux distribution and was still a Windows XP user. Now I find Gimp's UI actually pretty logical and everything has its place. Not sure what people talk about when they complain about Gimp UI. Perhaps you can shed some light on the details you do not like?
  - mschuetz 6y ago
    It's been many years since I've used it the last time but I can remember that even the simplest tasks required googling and actively remembering how they were done because nothing was intuitive or logical. And the layer system was virtually unusable, I couldn't figure it out. In Krita or inkscape, the UI just makes much more sense so they are not as infuriating to work with.
    - tux1968 6y ago
      That was my initial feeling about GIMP when I first tried to use it years and years ago. After many false starts and head scratching, the logic of it finally sunk in and now I find it pretty straightforward and logical. You just have to find a way to get over the very frustrating hump of understanding its basic design. But if all your needs are met by a program that doesn't demand that initial investment, all the better.
- HenriNext 6y ago
  > I despise GIMPs botched, unituitive and cumbersome UI so much Btw there is a new fork of GIMP, called "Glimpse" [1], that tries to improve the UI. Their first release was just a re-branded GIMP, but maybe they'll get something done someday. https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
jcelerier 6y ago
even for simple photo cropping / transformation and adjusting brightness / contrast, Krita has a much better UI
- ubercow13 6y ago
  Krita is nice to use, but for simple things I find Gimp's filters more useful. It now has much better scaling filters than Krita and the colour adjustment filters are useful, especially colour temperature adjustment and auto white balance I use a lot. Also some aspects of Gimp's UI are still superor, for example some filters in Krita only allow adjusting the parameters using text boxes, where in Gimp you can use a slider to interatively adjust each parameter with the mouse.
  - jcelerier 6y ago
    regarding the colour adjustments what do you think of G'MIC ? It integrates quite well in both GIMP and Krita and all the filters can be edited easily with sliders / text boxes / etc..
    - ubercow13 6y ago
      G'MIC is extremely useful and the algorithms in it seem very high quality. Indeed it works great in Krita does make up the difference for the most part, though I don't think it directly replaces the examples I mentioned in Gimp that I like, for example I can't see a generic scaling filter in there. I'm not sure it has a colour temperature adjustment specifically, either.

unixhero 6y ago

Confirmed. I also think so.

II2II 6y ago

I find the two programs complement each other: Krita is amazing for creating artwork, while GIMP's strength lays in image manipulation. Which ever you prefer, open source developers have created some great graphics software (and these two are far from the only examples).