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Krita is one of my favorite open source projects. I discovered it by accident while learning about pixel art, it's quite popular for Indy game development. I re
by zachruss92 6y ago
Krita is one of my favorite open source projects. I discovered it by accident while learning about pixel art, it's quite popular for Indy game development. I really appreciate it's polished interface that is not always a priority in OSS.
- app4soft 6y ago> I really appreciate it's polished interface that is not always a priority in OSS. What you would say about AzPainter UI?[0] [0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter
- ubercow13 6y agoI love AzPainter, it's very reminiscent of PaintTool SAI on Windows. It's one of the snappiest programs I've ever used, it starts faster than vim. This is no doubt because it is written using its own simple UI toolkit. But it's significantly less powerful than Krita/Gimp and the UI is quite quirky sometimes, for example the way cropping works in the B version and the normal version are completely different. But I use it despite these things because I find it quite charming.
- app4soft 6y ago> I love AzPainter, it's very reminiscent of PaintTool SAI on Windows... and the UI is quite quirky sometimes To be honest, AzPainter2[0] (legacy version for Windows-only) had different UI & toolkit from actual AzPainter V2[1] (for Unix-like OS). Actual AzPainter V2 UI has modern look (single window & multi window mnodes; light & dark built-in themes), which could be customized additionally with user created themes.[2] > But it's significantly less powerful than Krita/Gimp It really depend on what you needs from painting app. AzPainter has wide range of features & is 10 times faster in comparison to Krita/GIMP. Also, if compare AppImage package size: AzPainter binary size is less than 3.0 Megabyte, where size of each binaries for Krita/GIMP actually reached near 200 Megabyte. There is wiki-page (WIP) with comparison of AzPainter Vs GIMP & Krita.[3] > for example the way cropping works in the B version and the normal version are completely different AzPainterB V2[3] is fully diferent from AzPainter V2 by design. [0] http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA033749/ http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA033749/ [1] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/azpainter.html http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/azpainter.html [2] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Themes https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Themes [3] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Compare-AzPainter-vs-GIMP-and-Krita https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Compare-AzPainter... [4] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/azpainterb.html http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/azpainterb.html
- ubercow13 6y agoYep, I'm only familiar with the V2 one and I never used the old Windows app. It's true as a painting program it is more comparably powerful. One thing I have to be careful of when using it to edit existing images is that it doesn't support colour profiles AFAIK, so edits can be lossy if the image isn't sRGB.
- app4soft 6y ago> it doesn't support colour profiles AFAIK, so edits can be lossy if the image isn't sRGB. To be clear, AzPainter V2 actually in under heavy rewriting (next generation would get new toolkit with Wayland support & more features). As for now you could add feature request & bug reports for AzPainter V2 here.[0] [0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/issues https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/issues
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