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Subject: Re: Whither Krita?
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: 2009-09-23 23:49:59
Message-ID: h9ec77$ohv$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Warren Baird wrote:
> I didn't see a lot of direct answers to this question though --- what is
> Krita's reason for being? What will differentiate it from things like Gimp
> or MyPaint
>
> 5 years ago, there were a lot of gaps in the Gimp, and Krita seemed targeted
> to fill those gaps.
>
> From my position on the outside, it really looks to me like the Gimp is
> gonna fill 'em itself before Krita 2 is stable enough to be used... The
> Gimp already has relatively decent colour space support, and it sounds like
> higher bit depth support is coming down the pipes.
>
> Maybe it won't have quite as flexible a brush model as Krita --- but is that
> a sufficient differentiator?
>
> I'd be curious as to what people think the 'mission statement' for Krita
> ought to be.
As I see it, gimp = PS replacement, krita = painter replacement. At
least I haven't seen the focus on real media in gimp that we are
starting to see in krita.
> Or maybe that was already established and I missed it in my skim of the
> thread...
If it was, I think I missed it to, and I was pretty well
reading-not-skimming.
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