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I'm sure Gimp has its fans, but do people just not know about Krita? I'm not saying it's as fast/easy at small changes in Preview, but it's cross platform and m

by pfranz 6y ago

I'm sure Gimp has its fans, but do people just not know about Krita? I'm not saying it's as fast/easy at small changes in Preview, but it's cross platform and mostly a drop-in for people who are familiar with Photoshop. I know people who use it on non-Linux platforms and chose it on its own merits, not giving any excuses because it's Open Source or ported from Linux--they probably don't even know.

thn-gap 6y ago
I've been using Krita for some time as a replacement of GIMP. However, I still don't understand how these programs are rather powerful and complete, and yet the text tool sucks in all of them.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
  Powerful text tools are to be found in vector graphics programs. I use Inkscape and Affinity Designer. YMMV
- franga2000 6y ago
  Gimp's text tool was quite nice last time I checked. Krita's on the other hand is just horrible...
  - distances 6y ago
    I don't understand how you can be happy with the text tool. It's easily the worst part of Gimp for me. I can't even find a way to move the text around after entering the text, I always resort to resizing the box from two corners to emulate a move. I'm probably doing something wrong but this is the status after using Gimp as my only graphics editor for about 15 years.
    - mrj 6y ago
      Yeah the only movable surface is the letter itself. I usually find myself zooming WAY in to be able to click on the letters so I can move, and then still sometimes miss and move the whole layer...
rjzzleep 6y ago
What he's looking for in his post is XnView or something similar. I faintly remember it as a clone ACDSee, it has a basic integrated editor. It's not really that popular on Linux though even though it was first released on *nix some 23 years ago. I don't think people generally recommend it, simply because they don't know it. It's more likely that you know ACDSee from Windows and decide to use something similar on Linux. So it's not necessarily his fault for not knowing it. https://www.xnview.com/en/ https://www.xnview.com/en/

by pfranz 6y ago

thn-gap 6y ago

I've been using Krita for some time as a replacement of GIMP. However, I still don't understand how these programs are rather powerful and complete, and yet the text tool sucks in all of them.

TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
Powerful text tools are to be found in vector graphics programs. I use Inkscape and Affinity Designer. YMMV
franga2000 6y ago
Gimp's text tool was quite nice last time I checked. Krita's on the other hand is just horrible...
- distances 6y ago
  I don't understand how you can be happy with the text tool. It's easily the worst part of Gimp for me. I can't even find a way to move the text around after entering the text, I always resort to resizing the box from two corners to emulate a move. I'm probably doing something wrong but this is the status after using Gimp as my only graphics editor for about 15 years.
  - mrj 6y ago
    Yeah the only movable surface is the letter itself. I usually find myself zooming WAY in to be able to click on the letters so I can move, and then still sometimes miss and move the whole layer...

rjzzleep 6y ago

What he's looking for in his post is XnView or something similar. I faintly remember it as a clone ACDSee, it has a basic integrated editor. It's not really that popular on Linux though even though it was first released on *nix some 23 years ago. I don't think people generally recommend it, simply because they don't know it. It's more likely that you know ACDSee from Windows and decide to use something similar on Linux. So it's not necessarily his fault for not knowing it. https://www.xnview.com/en/ https://www.xnview.com/en/