From kde-kimageshop Sun May 19 08:51:22 2013 From: Simon Legrand Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 08:51:22 +0000 To: kde-kimageshop Subject: Krita performance. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=136895349530381 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============5747624168321460845==" --===============5747624168321460845== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0158c7380b820804dd0e52f6 --089e0158c7380b820804dd0e52f6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi guys. As an effort to make Krita used by artists in my studio I have to show them why it is beneficial to use Krita over Photoshop on wine (or ever harder, photoshop on a windows box). My first step would be to, at least, replace Photoshop CS2 on wine with Krita. The first hurdle and the hardest one to justify for now is performance. Even though Krita says it does high bit depth and large size canvas on the UI (and the website), it still does not make it possible to do any work at those high resolutions. A very simple example, is to put CS2 on wine and Krita, on the same machine running next to each other. In this test I created an A4, 300dpi document, then I painted it with fill and gradient. So far so good. Then I doubled the size of the document again, I could see krita was starting to slow down, but it was still ok. I then attempted to double the canvs again, but that was a limit I think. So I moved on to convert to 16bit. Photoshop did it effortlessly, but Krita crash. This is only the first of a series of comparisons I will run. But, essentially, if Krita cannot outperform Photoshop on wine, it's impossible for me to convert my studio to it. The price tag is not really an issue, what our artists need is performance. Even the UI quirks are something artists can get used to, Mari was adopted in the industry extremely quickly even though it had a UI no one had used before. Because performance drew the industry to use it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/21dsg43xhdu86hc/test_1.mpg -- Simon Legrand http://slegrand.blogspot.com/ --089e0158c7380b820804dd0e52f6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi guys. As an effort to make Krita used by artists in my = studio I have to show them why it is beneficial to use Krita over Photoshop= on wine (or ever harder, photoshop on a windows box).

My first step would be to, at least, replace Photoshop CS2 on wine with Kri= ta.=A0

The first hurdle and the hardest one to jus= tify for now is performance. Even though Krita says it does high bit depth = and large size canvas on the UI (and the website), it still does not make i= t possible to do any work at those high resolutions.

A very simple example, is to put CS2 on wine and Krita,= on the same machine running next to each other.

I= n this test I created an A4, 300dpi document, then I painted it with fill a= nd gradient. So far so good. Then I doubled the size of the document again,= I could see krita was starting to slow down, but it was still ok. I then a= ttempted to double the canvs again, but that was a limit I think. So I move= d on to convert to 16bit. Photoshop did it effortlessly, but Krita crash.

This is only the first of a series of comparisons I wil= l run. But, essentially, if Krita cannot outperform Photoshop on wine, it&#= 39;s impossible for me to convert my studio to it. The price tag is not rea= lly an issue, what our artists need is performance. Even the UI quirks are = something artists can get used to, Mari was adopted in the industry extreme= ly quickly even though it had a UI no one had used before. Because performa= nce drew the industry to use it.=A0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/21dsg43xhdu86hc/test_1.mpg


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