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> Krita is a great replacement for photoshop. No it is not. Krita was meant to be an OSS alternative to Corel (ex Fractal Design, ex Meta Creations) Painter [

> Krita is a great replacement for photoshop. No it is not. Krita was meant to be an OSS alternative to Corel (ex Fractal Design, ex Meta Creations) Painter [1]. And that's what it became, eventually. And quite a bit more. I've been using Photoshop and Krita since the first version of both of these DCC apps came out (and Painter too, btw). Professionally. I.e. for most of my adult life. Krita is a great paint app. It's not a Photoshop alternative. Photoshop is a great image manipulation app. It's not a Krita alternative. Krita absolutely is a Painter alternative. Painter is no longer a Krita alternative, if you need certain features (that's a topic for an entire blog post). [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Painter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Painter

GeneralMaximus 2y ago
Would it be accurate to say that Krita is a Procreate alternative?
- virtualritz 2y ago
  I don't know Procreate well enough to answer this conclusively. But one thing I can say is that using a tablet with a pressure/angle/etc.-sensitive pen and a screen in front of you, is very different from drawing on paper. Which is very similar, as far as hand/eye coordination and motor memory go, to using a pen with a tablet or a tablet with a built-in screen (e.g. a Wacom Cintiq). I.e. if you own such a tablet and use it with Krita you may get something very similar to Procreate and call it an alternative. But if you just own a normal tablet and a screen, learning the hand-eye coordination usually takes six months, from my experience. That's not really related to the app when you compare desktop painting/image editing apps. But it matters when it's one of the main features (similarity to pen & paper as far as learning goes). As is the case with Procreate.
- random42_ 2y ago
  Conceptually yes (and Krita might be more feature rich than Procreate), but Procreate is an iPad only app and Krita is not available on that platform, unfortunately.

GeneralMaximus 2y ago

Would it be accurate to say that Krita is a Procreate alternative?

virtualritz 2y ago
I don't know Procreate well enough to answer this conclusively. But one thing I can say is that using a tablet with a pressure/angle/etc.-sensitive pen and a screen in front of you, is very different from drawing on paper. Which is very similar, as far as hand/eye coordination and motor memory go, to using a pen with a tablet or a tablet with a built-in screen (e.g. a Wacom Cintiq). I.e. if you own such a tablet and use it with Krita you may get something very similar to Procreate and call it an alternative. But if you just own a normal tablet and a screen, learning the hand-eye coordination usually takes six months, from my experience. That's not really related to the app when you compare desktop painting/image editing apps. But it matters when it's one of the main features (similarity to pen & paper as far as learning goes). As is the case with Procreate.
random42_ 2y ago
Conceptually yes (and Krita might be more feature rich than Procreate), but Procreate is an iPad only app and Krita is not available on that platform, unfortunately.