LWN: Comments on "Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita"

Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita

boudewijn — 2013-10-03T18:27:12+00:00

Or kolourpaint... Though Win 8's paint app has gotten quite sophisticated, more than the kolourpaint, gpaint, mtpaint or pinta. In any case, that's not the kind of application I needed ten years ago, nor the kind of application that excites me or my users today :-)

Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita

mpr22 — 2013-10-03T16:05:10+00:00

Have you tried mtpaint?

Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita

flok — 2013-10-03T15:55:55+00:00

Something I dearly miss, is a drawing program trivial as "paint" under microsoft oses.
There are things for linux which do so, but they're always incomplete. Not all shapes, limitted colors, only a small canvas, no undo, no text.
I would prefer not to have to invest tons of time in learning a drawing tool for a quick sketch.
It would be great if someone stepped-in to that void!

Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita

boudewijn — 2013-10-02T15:37:24+00:00

My blog went down... For some reason I got tens of thousands of hits per hour, and the blog software is also ten years old. Plus, it runs on a Lenovo Ideapad I got for free at a Meego conference. The static page is available at http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_year... -

Replacing GIMP

boudewijn — 2013-10-02T13:00:07+00:00

Though there is overlap, for sure, Krita has a different focus from GIMP, so it'll never be a drop-in replacement. Krita is a painting application, GIMP an image manipulation application. Krita's brushes are better, GIMP has more filters and better selection tools :-)

And these days, Krita is pretty suitable for professional use, it is actually used by professional illustrators, texture painters, game graphics designers, vfx studios and matte painters every day. Check the brochure I made for the 2.6 release: http://krita.org/aboutkrita26.pdf.

And I fully intend to go further down this route, which is why we've got the Krita Foundation, which sponsors development, and my company, KO GmbH, which provides professional Krita support for VFX studios.

Replacing GIMP

proski — 2013-10-02T12:51:54+00:00

When I first heard of Krita, I hoped it would replace Gimp as the free graphic editor of choice. Gimp development has been slow and frustrating. There is still no 16-bit channel depth support in any version of Gimp, stable or unstable. The single window interface was added after a long struggle, but it's so inconvenient that it only there to speak on behalf of Gimp developers - "you don't want it, I told you so".

Is Krita getting close to being a Gimp replacement for casual users? How about professionals?

Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita

magfr — 2013-10-02T06:26:37+00:00

Krita is an even better pun in Swedish since K-rita means K-draw.

Rempt: Ten years of working on Krita

mrdocs — 2013-10-02T05:12:32+00:00

Having been through the same kind of experience with Scribus, I can only tip my hat to Boudwijn. If you are lucky enough to meet him in person, you will be impressed with his character and sense of humor. A real gentleman and good luck in the next ten years.

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