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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by zeruch on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:28PM (#7199476)
I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off.

Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by rebootthebox on Friday February 07, 2014 @08:13PM (#7199863)
Krita's just lacking a OSX build. I've been using the windows build for a while. Krita's focus is on digital painting. I would say Krita is more comparable to Corel's Painter instead of Photoshop.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by Argorak on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:13AM (#7200835)
As far as I see, Krita is built using GTK. An OS X built will probably just run using the OS X X11 server.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by adityab on Saturday February 08, 2014 @06:08AM (#7200915)
Krita is actually built on Qt libraries, just like VLC and even some of Photoshop. Which makes it look native on most platforms, and AFAIK won't require X11 on OS X -- because Qt uses Cocoa there.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by Argorak on Saturday February 08, 2014 @06:39AM (#7200955)
Sorry for the misinformation then :). Good to know.

QT is good.

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by dmpk2k on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:47AM (#7200890)
Almost nobody will use that.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by rebootthebox on Sunday February 09, 2014 @09:06AM (#7205559)
The other workaround I can think of is to use Krita in VMPlayer(Fusion?) with Ubuntu. Sounds clunky but I'm doing that with the devel version of MyPaint . Wacom usb pass through on Virtualbox isn't working well.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by GigabyteCoin on Friday February 07, 2014 @08:28PM (#7199908)
it[']s rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off.

Standing on the shoulders of giants certainly makes it easier to see.

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by sho_hn on Friday February 07, 2014 @08:40PM (#7199939)
Krita was started in 1999, only four years after GIMP. For most of their existence, these two programs have been developed in parallel.

http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/

http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.h...

Part of the reason Krita development has accelerated massively in the last couple of years is that its team decided on a clear mission statement at some point, one very different from GIMP: Krita is a painting app first. The main use cases are painting, illustration and texture-making. That it's also quite useful for cases GIMP traditionally aims at (photo editing, web graphics) are down to toolset overlap between the use cases and a robust, modern tech foundation (colorspace-independent implementation strategies, etc.), but Krita isn't actually trying to compete with GIMP and ventures into territory GIMP doesn't really serve.

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by a-nikolaev on Friday February 07, 2014 @09:52PM (#7200099)
Can you compare Krita and MyPaint[1]? (In terms of features, completeness, UI, etc.) From the video, it seems that Krita is a bit more advanced, with image transformations, texture tiling and probably other features. But both programs are digital painting applications, much more than GIMP, which is a generic graphics editor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPaint

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by sho_hn on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:05PM (#7200131)
Krita and MyPaint share a common interest in implementing things like sophisticated brush engines and color mixing models, and MyPaint is strong there and has been an influence on Krita (perhaps also vice-versa, though I don't follow MyPaint as closely).

One difference might be that Krita existed as a project to write a raster graphics editor for years before deciding to double-down on painting, and did quite a bit of broad foundational work in that space, like aiming to operate colorspace-independently and implementing various general raster editing tools (e.g. a sophisticated layer and adjustment layer system). Krita retains those traits today, which I feel makes it broader in actual scope than MyPaint, which I think directly started out as a personal project to write a stylus-driven painting app and then grew out from there.

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by mkr-hn on Saturday February 08, 2014 @06:30AM (#7200946)
Krita bogged down when I tried using a 12,000x12,000 canvas. It also took several minutes just to show the canvas. MyPaint handles frames several times larger with no slowdown on the same hardware. Krita has a better interface overall, but I like to work big.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by delian66 on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:20AM (#7210802)
Just curious, what do you use a 12 000 x 12 000 canvas for ?
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by mkr-hn on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @10:31PM (#7222344)
It's a useful digital illustration trick. You work big and scale down to your target resolution so you don't have to do as much line cleanup.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by Domenic_S on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:33PM (#7200193)
Haha, cute, but it sure hasn't helped GIMP (the giant in that case being PS).
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by GigabyteCoin on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:49AM (#7201669)
PS is not open source.
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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by zeruch on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:07PM (#7266600)
I think that is only part of the answer. The Krita team is also a lot more compact and has a clearer, more internally defined end goal (it will be interesting to see what happens if its userbase explodes).

Less of the glacial Debian-style politics than have encumbered GIMP never also helped Krita.

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Re:FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video] by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:07PM (#7200242)
why would you want to stand on the shoulders of GIMP
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