12/27/2023 0 Comments Inkscape vs krita![]() So here I am, barely starting to be functional in Krita when a new version crammed with features is released.īoudewijn Rempt, Krita's maintainer, tells me that 2.9 comes in the wake of a successful kickstarter campaign that had a target of 15,000 Euros, but received over 20,000. Probably, it is a good thing that Krita is well-designed, because if any feature puzzled you, your chances of finding any detailed instructions would be hit and miss. In comparison, Krita's is incomplete, and has not caught up to the latest major release after several years, let alone the point release. But what I can confidently say so far is that Krita's acessibility of features makes me aware of possibilities, while GIMP's inaccessible features either make me ignore them or else send me scuttling away for half an hour of research online.įortunately, documentation is the most obvious area where GIMP has an advantage. Probably more important differences exist, since I am several years off any claim to being an expert. And while GIMP's brushes frequently have such unhelpful names as "ripped hole" or "Oils 01" that discourage experimentation, Krita's brushes have names like "HP Pencil" and "Textured Fuzzy" that give you at least some idea beforehand what the brush will look like. Even more importantly, each brush has a mouseover and a preview in its icon that includes a view of the type of brush involved. By contrast, in Krita preset brushes are one of the default dockers. GIMP has a large supply of brushes for emulating pencils, paint brushes, and airbrushes, but they are crammed into a popup window in the tools options, with nothing to identify them until you select them. In fact, the most noticeable difference between GIMP and Krita is in its treatment of brushes. The Krita interface also includes the pop-up palette, where your choice of brushes and colors is always a right-click away from the document. The editing window is themed, and the sidebar can be customized with any of two dozen dockers, or panes. Moreover, despite its busy interface, Krita remains far more customizable. Where I struggle with GIMP's text tool, I can reposition text with Krita's in a single effort, and format without having the document hidden by dialogue windows. This design philosophy has its charms, but it also means that some basic features, such as the text tool, are awkward to use and almost impossible to position accurately on the first try.Īdmittedly, starting Krita for the first time felt like I was sitting down in the cockpit of a fighter jet, but, I quickly got over being overwhelmed and started appreciated that so many tools were visible and only a click away. Even with the move in recent versions towards a single window, GIMP tends to hide features in drop-down lists and pop-up dialogue, to the extent that I seem to do a lot of clicking for what are often small results. It is obvious when I start both applications. I am hardly a demanding user, but I know enough to see the difference when it is in front of me. These extras, I suspect, are due largely to Krita's policy of consulting closely with graphic artists during their development. ![]() ![]() The basic functionality is much the same, but Krita almost always includes a few extras. However, Krita is to GIMP what a Tesla Sportster is to a Lada Riva. Aside from the occasional foray into Inkscape, GIMP has exclusively handled my graphics needs for over a decade, and could continue to do so indefinitely. Not that I have anything against GIMP, you understand. However, already I can see that Krita is destined to replace GIMP for me in the near future. I haven't got far beyond the basics yet - just enough to work on a couple of projects. Now, with the 2.9 release coming out today, suddenly I have another long list of new tools to learn - and I couldn't be happier about having new features to learn. For the past couple of months, that software has been has been the paint program Krita. Yet every once or twice a year, I discover a piece of software so well-designed and useful that I spend whatever spare time I have learning it as thoroughly as possible. I consider myself neither a technophile nor a technophobe.
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