The existing filters in Krita are awesome, but I’m more hoping to see Krita go the same path with PS when it comes to designing and make visual effects to the content.
I don’t know if you have ever read the preface to the Krita manual, but if you had, you would know that this won’t happen on the part of the Krita developers, at least not if it would not also bring enormous advantages to Krita’s main goals and the kind of art Krita was designed for. Krita can edit photos, but that is only because these things in raster image editors overlap.
Here is the quote of the Krita manual preface which makes it clear.
Quote out of the Krita manual, Preface:
Krita is a sketching and painting program designed for digital artists. Our vision for Development of Krita is —Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch. Krita is optimized for frequent, prolonged and focused use. Explicitly supported fields of painting are illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations. Developed together with users, Krita is an application that supports their actual needs and workflow. Krita supports open standards and interoperates with other applications.
Krita’s tools are developed keeping the above vision in mind. Although it has features that overlap with other raster editors its intended purpose is to provide robust tool for digital painting and creating artworks from scratch. As you learn about Krita, keep in mind that it is not intended as a replacement for Photoshop. This means that the other programs may have more features than Krita for image manipulation tasks, such as stitching together photos, while Krita’s tools are most relevant to digital painting, concept art, illustration, and texturing. This fact accounts for a great deal of Krita’s design.
As I see it, this can only happen from developers out of the community who develop and provide such filter and image manipulation tools on their own behalf for the sake of the photo manipulaing part of Krita’s community.
So, here you can only hope for external developers who are willing to invest a lot of time and work into this.
Michelist
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