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I’d say the winner in this category is Krita.
by Diti 2y ago
I’d say the winner in this category is Krita.
- balamatom 2y agoAgain with the competitions, haha. But I mean, yeah - in a scenario where you only have one shot to recommend a piece of free software to someone, and are trying to avoid their startled retreat back into the walled garden, I'd also give 'em Krita. Nevertheless, both are wonderful pieces of software! I'm not a graphics pro but do find myself editing images quite regularly, and I usually reach for GIMP as it's more familiar to me. Krita on the other hand has a great brush engine, so if I feel like drawing something, I go for that. Also, of course, whichever one has GMIC on that particular day! Some of the stuff in that plugin is absolutely wild. Usually that means Krita again, though iirc at some point it was broken there for some time, but I found it for GIMP... Btw, anyone know if there's a Rebelle Mixbox-style color mixing feature for either of the two?
- flykespice 2y agoDoes it have the same freature set as gimp? Genuine question because I have heard people saying Krita err much more to artistic creation side than photo editing capabilities that gimp does.
- HKH2 2y agoNo, you can't print in Krita. Also, GIMP's transform tools are more powerful.
- vekatimest 2y agoKrita still doesn't have a usable text tool or a way to change an image's color space.
- kuschku 2y agoWhat? Krita had proper color space handling and conversions for many years, probably a decade now. GIMP is the one that's still missing proper colorspace handling, especially regarding CMYK. And Krita has had vector layers with text support for quite a while as well.
- asddubs 2y agoI thought CMYK was part of the 3.0 release?
- kuschku 2y agoPartial CMYK support, yes. Comparable to e.g. Inkscape. That means it's actually doing RGB under the hood and converting to/from CMYK on the fly as needed. But not proper native support for CMYK and spot colors as you might know from Adobe or Krita, where everything internally tracks CMYK data throughout.
- purerandomness 2y agoIf you're working with text in an image, you'll have a vastly better experience using Inkscape.
- Gualdrapo 2y agoKrita and GIMP are not in the same category. One is for digital painting and the other is, as it name says, an image manipulation program.
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- lmm 2y agoThat might be the tagline but I've always found Krita better for doing both things.
- throwanem 2y ago> Krita and GIMP are not in the same category. True. Usability, accessibility, and basic UI quality are all important focuses for the Krita devs.
- m-schuetz 2y agoKrita covers all image manipulation needs I have, so I thankfully don't have to suffer through GIMP anymore.
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- BeetleB 2y agoFor photo editing Gimp is way ahead. It also has a lot more plugins. Krita is superior when it comes to drawing or painting.
- nvllsvm 2y agoGenuinely curious - in which specific ways is GIMP better than Krita at photo editing?
- borgdefenser 2y agoKrita is vastly better if you come to it from photoshop. I doubt there is anything that couldn't be done in either and it is simply a matter of time spent in the UI and personal preference.
- oblio 2y agoA lot more design oriented people are familiar with Photoshop or Photoshop inspired software so not optimizing for that is ignoring the vast majority of the expected target audience. And I doubt Gimp has the usability studies to prove their workflows are superior.
- lollollollollol 2y agoI tried Krita, but as difficult to use as Gimp can be, Gimp is still easier to use for me and has all the image tools I need.
- hatthew 2y agoI don't know if this is an artifact of what I grew up on (paint shop pro), but personally I found Krita vastly more intuitive than GIMP, to the extent that I no longer use GIMP, and instead use Krita even for tasks that are objectively more appropriate for GIMP.
- peterashford 2y agoI use both and I think they both have areas where they are better than the other
- billfruit 2y agoFor many things Inkscape is better even though it is a vector drawing program, like making photo collages, and clipping photos against frame designs, etc. It is much easier to make a photo collage in Inkscape than Gimp.