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Just a friendly reminder example for all those people who only ever heard of GIMP and not wanting to let go of their Adobe products because they don't like GIMP. Krita deserves more wide spread attention. https://krita.org/en/features/
Just Remember, Krita Is For Digital Painting, Not For Photo Manipulation.
Photoshop has tons of users that use it for digital painting
I think they are just trying to set expectations. A ton of people conflate digital painting and photo manipulation so if an app can’t do both like Photoshop they think it’s trash.
yeah, people bitch and moan about how gimp doesn't do exactly what photoshop is. Forgetting that they also rep about how day to day life is simply about getting shit done, and doing the next thing in life. Ignoring the fact that they can literally just do this with adobe.
It's such a weird take IMO. to sit there, and say that life is about suffering, but then the second you are presented with even a modicum of suffering, you go "no i can't, it could not possibly be done, it is simply impossible, it is merely a pipe dream" knowing that they literally hold an antithetical view point.
Humans adapt and overcome, we went from being hunter gather society, to agrarian, to industrialized and commerce based society. You're telling me you can't stop using photoshop?
Switching to another program takes time, i would recommend those people to learn the program, and gradually switch to such programs.
Yeah that's stupid, don't expect Krita and GIMP to be Photoshop clones, they are great programs that don't need to mimic Photoshop in any way.
Besides, they are easier on resources than the goddamn photoshop.
I actually never knew this lol. Thanks for the PSA, because I was one of those people
The link quite literally says
I've never regretted replacing #GIMP with #Krita, whose brushes and built-in filters really make a difference.
I feel like I'm the only person who can't make heads or tails of Krita's interface. I can work with GIMP. I can easily find all the tools I need for simple to intermediate edits. But with Krita I find myself unable to even do simple stuff.
edits
Krita is more of a painting program.
Would it be understandable to compare Gimp and Krita to Photoshop and Illustrator? If so, which is closer to which?
Not really both Krita and GIMP works mainly on raster images like Photoshop. Illustator is a vector graphic software. The closest foss relative of which would be Inkscape.
The thing is, Photoshop was born as a photo manipulation tool but the drawing functionality has become an industry standard (I think mostly because they give free licenses to students). GIMP is a photo manipulation tool and Krita is a digital painting software. They have overlap but neither of them aim at replacing Photoshop as a whole. GIMP may be the closest match. Krita is more comparable to ClipStudio or Corel painter imo.
Thank you for the insight! I rather work with logos, icons or other flat and vector drawings usually, a lot of the time upscaling or working up from zero so Krita looked rather irrelevant with how the those types of tools were not readily apparent. I'll check Inkscpae for this.
Some of David's tutorials will help ? https://www.davidrevoy.com/categorie3/tutorials-brushes-extras or https://www.davidrevoy.com/static5/table-of-content
Yep. I just grew up with Gimp. I've used Krita a few times and might get used to it if I use it some more, but GIMP is forever my goto raster paint program
I feel like I’m the only person who can’t make heads or tails of
It doesn't matter if you get the result you want. The important thing is you have choice and that what you have chosen ... works!
Small mention for Darktable as an alternative to Lightroom.
indeed, darktable is awesome!
Or Inkscape as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator/ Corel Draw/ vectorial design. (The KDE alt would be Karbon, I haven't tried it tho.)
I remember when Photoshop was just that program you used to take aa picture of a boat and a picture of a road and combine them to make a boat sailing through concrete, then you show it to mom and she goes "oh that's meet sweetie" then you show it to grandpa and he gets all like "HOLY FUCK THATS AMAZING!!!"
Now when people make amazing artwork on one software but then somehow can't find the equivalency or accept the different scope on others and give them bad reviews
I really like krita though and I use it with one of the cheaper huion tablets for when I want to draw dumb shit like genetalia monsters or ideas for welding projects.
There's an android version too, for any non-apple tableteers.
Yes, but it's not fully optimized for android
I found it kinda weird that the page this link opens on makes it look kinda like a closed source freemium thing, and (on mobile) I had to dig a fair bit to see that it's actually FOSS and an official part of the KDE project.
I run KDE as my daily driver, and hadn't heard of Krita before; so yeah, I guess it could use a bit more exposure.
Been using Krita for a long while, and I love it. Fantastic alternative to Photoshop and other art programs and image editors.
Thanks I haven't seen it but GIMP just makes me frustrated. Great for what it is but not intuitive for me.
Next GIMP 3.0 release has huge update to its UI and function. You should check it out.
Oh very cool. I will.
I struggle to use krita and the basic functions are a bit annoying. I find myself having to look up things a lot when I try to use it.
That's how I feel with Photoshop. I grew up with fireworks and still to this day I miss the workflow fireworks allowed. I've never found an exact replacement for it. It was easier for me to completely soft too a new paradigm and use inkscape, than it was to use Photoshop. I've not tried krita yet though but I'm less of a "drawer", at least at the moment anyway.
If I’m coming from Adobe, how much will I be missing?
(This looks awesome btw, I’m just trying to be informed)
CMYK color space for printing.
Unless you're talking artwork for professional print shops, people have been printing out RGB pictures for decades. Otherwise, imagemagick will convert the files for you in a single command (note that this solution has also been available for at least 12 years). All you need is the ICC profiles.
Heck, any print company worth their salt will convert the colour space of your file(s) for a fee if all else fails.
Amazon's printers often print awful-looking stuff when I use RGB. I'll check out the cmyk converter, but the Affinity suite let's me actually edit in CMYK color space, not just output.
It you use Affinity on Windows, you may be interested in this: https://github.com/lf-/affinity-crimes
Adjustment layers for gimp, and not all photo tools there for krita.
Krita is not for photo manipulation, just for digital painting
remember that
krita is also used for image manipulation by many in the linux community, people who don't like the gimp ui. That doesn't mean it was meant for that, but the reality is what it is.
Gimp works great for me. The only thing it's lacking is CMYK editing, and Krita also doesn't have that. I have to do my graphics editing on Windows.
You probably already looked into the Separate+ plugin? But yeah, even now native CMYK support is lacking because — chicken, meet egg — there hasn't been a lot of support from the graphics industries toward development of that feature.
I thought Krita was more popular than Gimp
I came here to comment on the artwork, which is beautiful. ❤️
Gimp is horrible branding and should be renamed.
Pretty much anyone outside Western area will think GIMP as cool branding, or at least neutral.
Let's remember that language is diverse and even English itself is different between area.
If Indian English or Singaporean English speaker force every English speaker to adhere to their standard, everyone would be mad.
Whatever came out of the renamed fork? I can't even remember the name they chose.
The name was glimpse, if I recall correctly.