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Krita 4.4.0
- boltefnovor 6y agoNice to finally have a good free graphics program for OSX.
- dsign 6y agoIs this the same Krita I tried for the first time when I was a junior at college almost twenty years ago? Oh my, I'm so glad it all worked out!
- MarcellusDrum 6y agoIn this increasingly "Software as a Service" world, it's nice to have a good alternative where you actually own the software you are using. Being FOSS is just icing on the cake. Huge respect to the team behind Krita, and the KDE community as a whole.
- dsign 6y agoWhile I share your appreciation of Krita and FOSS in general (long live Gimp and Inkscape), I have to point out that there are good commercial software that are not a total subscription rip-off (I'm looking at you Adobe). Here are some I know of and have used (bugs and limitations and everything): - The Affinity suite - Corel Painter and perhaps a few others. They do their job of paying their developers, cultivating artist communities, doing R&D and pricing their products at something reasonable for the average artist.
- Fnoord 6y ago> [...] and perhaps a few others. I use Pixelmator (Pro) on macOS. Flat fee (buy to use), though I use it for basic things.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoYeah, I picked up Affinity a few years back and haven't regretted it. I don't do graphics work enough to justify a subscription. Affinity's products hit a good price sweet spot of being affordable, and they're well supported. I actually ended up more heavily switching to Krita though, just because I could install it on machines that weren't "mine" without worrying about the license, and it was enough for my purposes in most cases.
- KingOfCoders 6y agoYes, using Affinity to produce a YT channel and used for publishing two books. Can recommend them too!
- DylanDmitri 6y agoCorel painter has terrible UX, to the point where I deleted it from my computer after three hours attempting to follow tutorials. On Mac, I strongly recommend Pixelmator.
- S0und 6y agoOr just use "Photoshop" in the browser https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ If I need any kinda simpler editing I just use this.
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- skrowl 6y agoIf you're on windows, you may also want to check out https://www.getpaint.net/ https://www.getpaint.net/ It's great and free (as in beer) even for commercial use.
- mschuetz 6y agoIt's like GIMP, but good.
- mouldysammich 6y agoIts a painting program not an image editing program. they dont compete.
- mkl 6y agoThey do a bit. I often do adjustments and editing on raw photos from my camera with Krita (colour curves, minor rotations, copying heads between group photos so everyone's eyes are open, etc.). Historically GIMP couldn't handle the higher bit depth, so Krita was it.
- franga2000 6y agoOh but they do. If Krita had just a couple more filters, GIMP would be basically obsolete. Out of the photo manipulation I do on Linux, more than 90% I do in Krita.
- preommr 6y agoDoesn't krita have a plugin for gmic? That's got a tonne of filters.
- franga2000 6y agoLooks like it does - that's awesome!
- jdpigeon 6y agoIf there's something that GIMP can do that Krita can't, I never encountered it in over two years of using it for front end development and graphic design work.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
- pupdogg 6y agoIMO, aside from Blender, Krita is one of the most amazing open source graphics project to date. Thank you so much for your existence!
- flohofwoe 6y agoNote the red message about how to run the installer on Windows despite the SmartScreen popup. Microsoft really needs to do something about the whole SmartScreen mess if even properly signed, popular and trusted open source tools like Krita require such a "how to get around the SmartScreen popup" note in their installation instructions.
- kuschku 6y agoYou can actually install Krita from the Windows Store, it's the same version
- selfhoster11 6y agoNot everyone wants to use the Windows Store, for multiple reasons. There's no reason to scare users away from independent software distribution.
- vinceguidry 6y agoOf course there is. $$$$
- wtetzner 6y agoHow does Microsoft make money from free apps being in the Windows Store?
- laszlokorte 6y agoBy conditioning users to only use the store and then later for paid apps as well.
- vinceguidry 6y ago'Zactly. Every tech company has a strong interest in platform lock-in, not only do they collect a cut on whatever gets sold through the platform, but their data collection is better, so they can sell it to marketers.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoIt's awesome that the Linux version is distributed right on the website as an AppImage next to the Windows and MacOS downloads. I very much appreciate software that doesn't require me to wait for a third party maintainer to get around to building it for every distro or require me to add a new repo to a config file somewhere just to use the latest version.
- purerandomness 6y agoYou are in the target group for Arch Linux. Highly recommended.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI don't see how. Arch still heavily relies on a repo and volunteer package maintainers.
- TheNorthman 6y agoArch's Krita was updated to 4.4.0-4 at 2020-10-13 18:23 UTC, approximately 18 hours and 52 minutes ago. While I can't see when the original blog post was submitted, I know this forum post was posted 2 hours ago. Are you sure you would benefit from updating even faster? EDIT: In any case, you could use the AUR package that points directly to the git repo.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoWould the AUR let me have the current Krita and the old one installed simultaneously? My experience with repo/package models suggests it very much would not.
- wtetzner 6y ago> Would the AUR let me have the current Krita and the old one installed simultaneously? I doubt it. > My experience with repo/package models suggests it very much would not. The Nix package manager would. However, I have no idea if their packages are kept up-to-date like that.
- vanderZwan 6y agoHas anyone tried the Android beta for tablets? How good/bad is it? I'm curious to try it out but I don't have a tablet at the moment. [0] https://krita.org/en/item/first-krita-beta-for-android-and-chromeos-in-play-store/ https://krita.org/en/item/first-krita-beta-for-android-and-c... [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.krita&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.krita&hl=e...
- boudewijnrempt 6y agoIt is _beta_. Don't use it for production work! I'm currently paying Sharaf who did the original port to work full-time on fixing Android/ChromeOS issues, but we're not even at the stage where we can think of implementing a tablet-friendly user interface again.
- VadimPR 6y agoWhat did you do with it? A Qt Widgets maintainer here looking to hit the mobile as well.
- boudewijnrempt 6y agoWe just made it build, which needed a bit of hacking in Qt, and then some hacking in Krita, but it was doable within the scope of a Google Summer of Code. Of course, the devil is in the details, and that's what Sharaf is working on now.
- VadimPR 6y agoHm, so you run Qt Widgets on Android as it is?
- boudewijnrempt 6y agoYes.
- spookybones 6y agoThis update looks terrific. One nitpick: Krita should have a high-res logo in their navbar. I could see it being a slight turnoff for potential adopters looking for a professional art program.
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- novaleaf 6y agoa bit off topic, but know any easy to use vector art program for kids? Really looking for something my kids can get into! Krita supports vector layers, but it's for simple shapes/text overlays
- nightowl_games 6y agoIs Krita good for vector art? I often use InkScape to touch up or modify icons, but have found InkScape's UI to sometimes completely bug out. (besides looking generally bad). Is Krita an alternative to InkScape?
- burevestnik 6y agoIt's a raster painting application, so it's not comparable to Inkscape.
- PufPufPuf 6y agoIt has some rudimentary vector support, though. It is possible to create a SVG layer and even apply effect layers to it -- most notably, text is handled that way.
- rwmj 6y agoWhat kind of input devices do people use with this? USB drawing tablet?
- willismichael 6y agoYes. My children use a Wacom tablet with Krita. It was actually less trouble to get it working on Linux than on my MacBook. On Linux I just had to plug in the Wacom table and I was immediately able to start drawing in Krita.
- juniper_strong 6y agoFor me, plugging it in worked flawlessly, getting it to work with Bluetooth took some fiddling. Got it to work but it was one of those Linux things where I don't know what I did to get it to work, but it works now, and the next time I set up a new machine, it will be another few more hours of my life. But yeah Wacom Intuos + Krita = so much fun.
- pkaye 6y agoYes you really need one with this kind of program. It emulates pencils, pens and brushes much better. Like the pressure sensitive aspect in particular.