Gathering the Resources in 2022. Your bundle in the main page! Krita needs your help

These are some ideas that occurred to me.

An example:

It would be a good idea to put tags to be able to filter the types of resources.

Version with light colors:

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Last idea since I read above that they want something similar to CSP

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fully on broad with this 100% it just nice to have example image with the brush type

accepting animated gifs would be kinda dope for the showcase area.

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Hey! i see very good ideas here.
@wojtryb i like the hovering idea. But i have a doubt about long width images, Will they be web responsive ? MAybe people want to see a rough view of everything and then go deeper selecting one.
@EyeOdin I don’t understand your issue. I am not thinking in something like git for this. just simply Give a link with everything to be downloaded, and then Krita team will upfdate the content. If there is another solution, i listen.

@Deevad i agree with you about license. I thought maybe description would be a nice place but now i see better @SchrodingerCat idea.

@SchrodingerCat I like the link icon for sharing. +1 . Tags maybe will complicate the task for @scottyp ? I don’t knoow but if we gather a lot of resources then it would be useful so yes for me.
Only one thing, this is like one single page for each bundle. I was thinking a more simple idea to present things.

One question, do you prefere a grid style for the page. Then we click on a resource and a page like @SchrodingerCat shows? or something like @wojtryb propose? i think we need to look for the better ideas no matter who is the brain behind. do you agree with that idea?
I like this thread, we are getting a lot of interesting ideas. Thanks everybody. :slight_smile:

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Well I can’t do merge requests for krita nor for the manual for reasons unknown and I think is because of my operating system even if I am on dual boot. Git just does not work with me. The biggest reason for me to have never done anything inside Krita itself.

Making a downloadable link is doable though.

I am not in charge of the manual. Maybe @wolthera could help with this. Your work is really appreciated. I don’t know which is your OS. i don’t think using git is useful for this. Also i don’t think allow the user to upload any type of material would be good. Maybe the team has to filter to avoid to simple things? Do you think is reasonable? If we want to show a more professional look i think is important :slight_smile:

I don’t want to take this too far off topic but if I may one or two notes.
I’m doubltful how much this will help on its own with the resource discovery.

I think Krita needs two things to get this actually going:

  1. Have a giant button on the front page and in the menu which says Asset Store or Plugins & Brushes or something similar which is used in other programs in general and us understood, Resources is nice but I’m not 100% sold on the word in this context.
    The button takes you to the resource page if nothing else.
  2. Have automatic way to import resources with as little clicks and dialogs as possible. Would it be possible to download through krita?
    Comparison here are basically all the other apps especially mobile ones these days, the integration is more or less seemless.

(most beneficial would be some form built-in asset store but I understand that’s a long stretch.)

To sum it up, some recognizable big label/button on the front page and one in Krita’s menu which takes you to this page you discuss here at the least.

I know someone said krita page is superb resource about krita but it’s convoluted, not simple to navigate and/or understand so the click through krita directly to the resource page would make miles in this case. :slight_smile:

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I agree with that. We need a button in the main page and i think that is clear. The rest of your note is what we are talking about here, how to improve the resource management and discovering for new users :wink:

We used to have something like that, share.krita.org and integration in the application itself through GHNS (Get Hot New Stuff) – a KDE framework. However, we couldn’t manage share.krita.org because we’re too small and busy a team and because of the way that site was set up by the owners. So it became a huge spam magnet.

I really want to have a dynamic marketplace site where people can actually sell their resources, with integration with the new front page Sharaf is creating at the moment.

But that’s not going to happen overnight.

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And by the way, where is @pesi, @Quiralta, @Rytelier, Cazorla, Radian, Razvan, Saejer Ryman(Mojo) and many others Brush creators… I would like to see you here comenting what do you think about all this thread

This is my Creators page in my HD, so YES, there are a lot of content.

People use all sorts of versions of Krita, so it would probably be in place to describe what Krita-versions the resource works for. That will likely help many users and will make it easy to see what resources are old.

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What about something like this? adding @wojtryb hovering idea and @SchrodingerCat tags, share, more ideas. I am copying without shame :open_mouth: Do you prefer arrows to show the images or round shapes ? this remember other platforms.
Maybe we are complicating this too much? i don’t know if this takes too much time for web manteiner @scottyp
Also about social media, i listen what do you prefer :slight_smile:

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Wow, I like the lower one!

Michelist

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Here i am testing how this will fit with more visual content. Do you like it?


It takes not too much space so we can scroll easily and see a lot of content with low effort. My doubt is about smartphones Maybe we can reduce this width? What would be your ideal solution? we are dreaming now :sleeping::face_with_hand_over_mouth: After this programers will do their best. We love them.:heart:

I enabled the thumbnails on that page now. :slight_smile:

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I agree with @halla that all these resources will probably be some type of separate site than krita.org or docs.krita.org. I also believe long term this is closer to like a store front like Halla mentions. Many things will be free, but will also have potential options to purchase things.

I think having whatever we do integrate with the Krita application will also be important like on the welcome screen. Being able to search for resources and brushes directly in the application instead of having to know to go to a website to see that stuff.

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That means you have enough feedback of what the users would find useful and that we have to wait until the web migration is done ? By the way thanks a lot for all the work done. :blush:
Do you think we can close this thread? Or do you like or find useful more ideas ? Just let us know.

Can you make a capture? I can’t see how that change the look, please

Here’s what I’m seeing now: