Just a friendly reminder example for all those people who only ever heard of GIMP and not wanting to let go of their Adobe products because they don't like GIMP. Krita deserves more wide spread attention. https://krita.org/en/features/
I think they are just trying to set expectations. A ton of people conflate digital painting and photo manipulation so if an app can’t do both like Photoshop they think it’s trash.
I feel like I'm the only person who can't make heads or tails of Krita's interface. I can work with GIMP. I can easily find all the tools I need for simple to intermediate edits. But with Krita I find myself unable to even do simple stuff.
You are not the only one. I'm so used to GIMP, its hard to get used to Krita. It's installed and I try it from time to time. Besides the horrendous text editing tool of Krita, it has features that are worth learning and getting used to. I think it will take time before we are used to it.
People say that GIMP has bad UI, but this could be said about Krita too. Basically any new complex tool has bad UI, because its new...
Yep. I just grew up with Gimp. I've used Krita a few times and might get used to it if I use it some more, but GIMP is forever my goto raster paint program
I remember when Photoshop was just that program you used to take aa picture of a boat and a picture of a road and combine them to make a boat sailing through concrete, then you show it to mom and she goes "oh that's meet sweetie" then you show it to grandpa and he gets all like "HOLY FUCK THATS AMAZING!!!"
Now when people make amazing artwork on one software but then somehow can't find the equivalency or accept the different scope on others and give them bad reviews
I really like krita though and I use it with one of the cheaper huion tablets for when I want to draw dumb shit like genetalia monsters or ideas for welding projects.
I found it kinda weird that the page this link opens on makes it look kinda like a closed source freemium thing, and (on mobile) I had to dig a fair bit to see that it's actually FOSS and an official part of the KDE project.
I run KDE as my daily driver, and hadn't heard of Krita before; so yeah, I guess it could use a bit more exposure.
That's how I feel with Photoshop. I grew up with fireworks and still to this day I miss the workflow fireworks allowed. I've never found an exact replacement for it. It was easier for me to completely soft too a new paradigm and use inkscape, than it was to use Photoshop. I've not tried krita yet though but I'm less of a "drawer", at least at the moment anyway.
Unless you're talking artwork for professional print shops, people have been printing out RGB pictures for decades. Otherwise, imagemagick will convert the files for you in a single command (note that this solution has also been available for at least 12 years). All you need is the ICC profiles.
Heck, any print company worth their salt will convert the colour space of your file(s) for a fee if all else fails.
GIMP is very different, but Krita is quite similar. Pretty sure you won't miss much. However, I am not an advanced user, so, I cannot say for certain. Also, some shortcuts are different. But do try Krita. It is awesome.
You probably already looked into the Separate+ plugin? But yeah, even now native CMYK support is lacking because — chicken, meet egg — there hasn't been a lot of support from the graphics industries toward development of that feature.