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Some things off the top of my head... I've been doing some texture painting recently in Krita and i find it to lack things like various filters. It does have t

Some things off the top of my head... I've been doing some texture painting recently in Krita and i find it to lack things like various filters. It does have the GMIC plugin which has its own filters but those are way slower than "native" Krita plugins and not as integrated (which makes sense). GIMP has more ways to adjust the colors of an image - an entire menu of the stuff actually. Something i often need is adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image, but there isn't such a thing in Krita (well, there is in GMIC, but it has its own issues). GIMP can work with indexed images directly and has decent functionality for them - Krita can only export indexed images and even that has very little control. You can apply a palette as a filter and when exporting the image you can have it save it as an indexed image "if it can be done" (meaning it wont be forced) and that if the exporter supports it. This also means that it wont preserve the palette indices since it doesn't know about them. And the selection stuff mentioned by kuschku. In fact IMO selections and copy/paste work in weird ways in Krita. There are more things that i notice when using Krita (and is what i tend to use these days), but i can't think of them right now. At the end of the day there are ways around things so the only thing that remains is my impression that is weaker on stuff outside "2D digital painting" (where it is very strong).

Intralexical 3y ago
> GIMP has more ways to adjust the colors of an image - an entire menu of the stuff actually. Something i often need is adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image, but there isn't such a thing in Krita (well, there is in GMIC, but it has its own issues). Krita also has an entire menu of ways to adjust colours, and can do them in high bit depth as non-destructive Filter Masks by default: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.html https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.ht... There is no dedicated "Brightness/Contrast" adjustment anymore, because, as the linked page notes, that functionality is just a specialized subset of the Color Adjustment Curves/Levels.
- badsectoracula 3y ago
  > Krita also has an entire menu of ways to adjust colours, Yes it does, but it does not have all the tools that Gimp provides. > and can do them in high bit depth as non-destructive Filter Masks by default I need to "destructively" modify images more often than non-destructively. > There is no dedicated "Brightness/Contrast" adjustment anymore, because, as the linked page notes, that functionality is just a specialized subset of the Color Adjustment Curves/Levels. You can most likely get some similar result if you play around with the curves but it is certainly not as simple or easy as having a dedicated brightness/contrast filter like you can find in other image editing applications. Having that specialization might feel unnecessary for developers who are used to trying to make things more generic, but from a UX perspective it can be very preferable (if your goal is to make an image editing application - from the perspective of a 2D digital painting application, this sort of specialization may indeed feel like UI bloat). As i mentioned in my original message it isn't so much that you can't do things in Krita, it is more that the stuff that exist are often clunkier and the more you need outside "2D digital painting", the more limitations and clunkiness you face.

Intralexical 3y ago

> GIMP has more ways to adjust the colors of an image - an entire menu of the stuff actually. Something i often need is adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image, but there isn't such a thing in Krita (well, there is in GMIC, but it has its own issues). Krita also has an entire menu of ways to adjust colours, and can do them in high bit depth as non-destructive Filter Masks by default: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.html https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.ht... There is no dedicated "Brightness/Contrast" adjustment anymore, because, as the linked page notes, that functionality is just a specialized subset of the Color Adjustment Curves/Levels.

badsectoracula 3y ago
> Krita also has an entire menu of ways to adjust colours, Yes it does, but it does not have all the tools that Gimp provides. > and can do them in high bit depth as non-destructive Filter Masks by default I need to "destructively" modify images more often than non-destructively. > There is no dedicated "Brightness/Contrast" adjustment anymore, because, as the linked page notes, that functionality is just a specialized subset of the Color Adjustment Curves/Levels. You can most likely get some similar result if you play around with the curves but it is certainly not as simple or easy as having a dedicated brightness/contrast filter like you can find in other image editing applications. Having that specialization might feel unnecessary for developers who are used to trying to make things more generic, but from a UX perspective it can be very preferable (if your goal is to make an image editing application - from the perspective of a 2D digital painting application, this sort of specialization may indeed feel like UI bloat). As i mentioned in my original message it isn't so much that you can't do things in Krita, it is more that the stuff that exist are often clunkier and the more you need outside "2D digital painting", the more limitations and clunkiness you face.