An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

[Posted January 27, 2017 by corbet]

Renderosity Magazine talks with Boudewijn Rempt about the Krita painting application. "Well, we make Krita for artists who want to create images. It's not an image editor with a brush engine, it's really meant for sketching, painting, illustrating. So that is what we optimize the workflow for. And people tell us that that works very well for them!"

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 30, 2017 5:11 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (4 responses)

Hm, no comments still? I remember when Krita was called KImageShop and criticised for being an unnecessary Gimp clone. Since then it's evolved into something quite different. I'm curious, Gimp is even today a Photoshop-clone; is Krita analogous to anything in the Windows world, or has it redefined its category?

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 30, 2017 6:50 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

> I'm curious, Gimp is even today a Photoshop-clone;

When was it ever?

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 30, 2017 8:07 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

You're saying it's not? It seems obviously one, I assumed by design.

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 30, 2017 7:45 UTC (Mon) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, there are applications like Corel Painter, Manga Studio or OpenCanvas, Art Rage, Painttool Sai and more. All kind of similar, but different. We're all the time getting feature requests of the type "please add this feature exactly like in PainterArtStudioPro!" -- often when the feature already exists in Krita!

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 31, 2017 6:21 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I'm definitely not the target demographic, but Krita is one of the rare pieces of software where I can't find anything substantial to complain about any more. The worst I can say is that it doesn't make the off-brand USB tablets I've tried magically work (but they aren't recognised by the kernel anyway).

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 31, 2017 7:37 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

Looking at the screenshot I remember an old bike shedding question: why do graphics editing program use gray on gray for their UI? As krita targets artists, they may have an excuse, but Photoshop is used by most of the people responsible for usability in the web. These users should have revolted years ago but somehow failed to. But why?

An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 31, 2017 7:43 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Same reason as my pro eizo monitor has an anthracite grey border (and optional ditto hood): the gray doesn't distract or change the colors you'r working on. Krita comes with several color sets, of course, ranging from really bright to really dark, but the mid grey set influences the colors on the canvas least.