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  • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
    38·
    3 days ago

    I was really hoping for Linux support some day. Now, I am totally fine sticking with GIMP.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      I was really hoping for Linux support some day.

      I hope with easy access to Affinity V3, someone in the FOSS world will now reverse engineer the Affinity file format. The only 3rd party solution for Affinity files I’m aware of is Photopea but that may just as well be a version of Affinity Photo running in some VM on the server to convert the files to PSD to then edit the files from there.

      • danielton1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        Isn’t Krita more focused on digital painting than photo editing? I always end up going back to the GIMP because of that even though I use KDE.

        • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
          111·
          2 days ago

          Yep. It’s 100% digital painting. All photo manipulation features are either minimal implementation or simply does not exist.

          All the developement roadmap are often times trying to replicate Clip Studio Paint as it becomes the most used digital painting software for newer generation. Like comic/manga layout, integrated 3D pose, etc.

          • danielton1@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            That’s what I thought. People keep saying Krita is a great alternative to GIMP, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo, but photo editing is not its focus at all.

            • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              13 hours ago

              People keep saying Krita is a great alternative to GIMP, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo, but photo editing is not its focus at all.

              That’s not exactly true. Yes, the focus shifted to painting a bunch of years ago but Krita still started out as “KImageShop”. There are many image editing features available and unlike Gimp, it A) works across all major PC operating systems equally (and Android), B) uses an up to date toolkit and doesn’t lag behind by years (Gimp only recently adopted GTK3), C) doesn’t user headerbars, and D) isn’t named after “a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment”.

              • danielton1@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                12 hours ago

                Krita may have started out as a photo editor, but that’s clearly not its focus today. If I need to edit a photo, I will use a tool better suited for that task, even if that tool isn’t as pretty as Krita.

                • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  12 hours ago

                  Krita may have started out as a photo editor, but that’s clearly not its focus today.

                  Editing features were not removed, so it’s still a capable image editor, formal focus or not.

                  • danielton1@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    11 hours ago

                    Some photo editing features were either never added, or they feel clunky to use. Either way, the GIMP is better suited even if it’s uglier.

                    Krita is a great tool for artists, but I’m not going to force myself to use it instead of the GIMP, and I’m not going to tell others it’s designed for something it’s not. I’ll keep checking in on it, but until it does what I need it to, it’s not going to become my main tool for photo editing.

            • RightEdofer@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              It’s not but it has had non-destructive adjustment layers for years before Gimp. It’s fine for a lot of things with a much better interface.