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Not to detract from raincole's point, and this is not relevant at all to their problem, but just a general reminder that in many ways Krita is not a direct comp
by danShumway 3y ago
Not to detract from raincole's point, and this is not relevant at all to their problem, but just a general reminder that in many ways Krita is not a direct competitor to Photoshop unless you're using Photoshop as a digital painting tool -- and if you are, I would argue that Krita is arguably a better product in multiple ways.
I think that Photoshop is an image manipulator first and foremost, and Krita is a tool for drawing/painting and maybe doing some light traditional animation (although even that is not its primary focus).
I think that CSP, Procreate, etc... are more direct competitors to Krita. Photoshop is a competitor to Gimp.
Again, does not change anything about raincole's comment, and I don't think that raincole was suggesting that they were direct competitors. It's just that whenever Photosohp and Krita get mentioned in the same sentence I feel like the assumption from many readers is that they're trying to do the same things, and I would personally say that I think they're separate categories of software. There are things that Photosohp does that Krita doesn't want to do and will probably never support, because it's a painting app, not an image manipulation app.
- raincole 3y agoI agree. Off the top of my head, the most important new features they introduced in recent years were: Krita: A new brush engine. A new file format for brushes. Some animation features that I don't use. New text system. PS: AI-based object selection. AI-based neural filter. AI-based generative fill. New Javascript API for plugins. It's quite clear that Adobe doesn't see PS as a digital painting app, but an (AI-assisted) image manipulation app.