A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 2, 2006 0:03 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com) by briangmaddox
Parent article: A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com)

Oh definately. NLE is something that lags behind in Linux.

Otherwise I feel that things like Blender and other applications are much more capable then people give them credit for. One of the major troubles is that stuff like 3D development is FREAKING HARD.

It takes a huge time investment for people to learn how to use even the best applications for audio and graphic work. Open source stuff just doesn't have a very good reputation at this point for this sort of thing and unless people are realy able to devote time to learning how to use them they simply are not going to compare to propriatory applications they've been using for years.

For instance once you get proficient at modelling in Blender it is about the fastest modeler you can use in terms of workflow. People can realy hammer out some high quality stuff once you get going at it, but most people aren't going to give it a enough time to get to that level of expertese. Irregardless of what goes on or what app your going to use it's going to take a long time before you'd get to the point were you start making good stuff. And recently, especially with the work gained with developers working with real artists in the Orange project Blender has managed to get out from under some severe old limitations.

Another example is that the movie people that made the Shrek came out and said that Gimp, bar-none, was the best application for making and developing textures for 3d models, including photoshop. (Of course nowadays movies have progressed to the point were Gimp's lack of deep color depths realy has come back to bite that project.) But anytime Gimp gets mentioned anywere you have people telling others that it's the worst peice of crap they've ever used.

And although I am not a musician or whatnot audio work in Linux has a huge amount of potential for a artist and even professionals.

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A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 2, 2006 0:08 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well now that I think about it I think I overstated Dreamwork's endorsment quite a bit. I was a bit excited. :-)

But still they said that it was a very good application for textures.

A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 2, 2006 8:46 UTC (Thu) by pbaum (subscriber, #4514) [Link]

Oh definately. NLE is something that lags behind in Linux.

BTW, does anybody know the status of Diva and PiTiVi? They started promising, but currently look pretty dead.

Peter

A comparative look at the GIMP and Krita (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 2, 2006 22:38 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I donno.

Looks like the last cvs commit for Diva was 8 months ago. :/
And I heard the guy being interviewed on that british linux podcast what doesn't seem that long ago.

For Pitivi it was 4 weeks ago. Some trouble with internationalization and python. They moved from sourceforge to Gnome also it seems like.

I don't know about Diva, but with Pitivi the main developer(s) work for Fluendo. Maybe they are just to busy with something else right now?

I think that being based around Gstreamer is a problem for these guys development-wise. For instance I beleive that the idea for Pitivi was as it was being developed it's a sort of test bed for gstreamer technology..

A lot of the stuff they are working on probably doesn't use the same versions of software that are provided by Ubuntu and other distros. So maybe it's tough to get testers and such.

Personally the Pitivi seems more interesting, but for a while there it seemed that Diva was doing great. They had a functional beta release and everything you could download.