An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

Posted Jan 30, 2017 5:11 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
Parent article: An Interview with Krita Maintainer Boudewijn Rempt (Renderosity)

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).