Can I just say how much I love it here? I can’t remember how long it’s been since I felt welcome online!
Everyone is so nice and helpful! I’m so grateful to be here and I don’t know where I would be artistically without Krita.
Open source is amazing and I’m so glad that it’s an option! 
It is a very comfortable place to be compared to many forums. Everybody is really easy to get along with.
Agreed. This is a great place to hang out and learn.
Ikr? I really love it here so much! 
I’ve been here for awhile and it’s really nice to hang out here. I feel very safe, it’s nice. 
Absolutely agree! 
Krita and its community have made me feel a new joy with art, which is sharing the art journey with this wonderful community
Ikr? I’m so grateful to be here! It’s really a nice change from other social media!
KA is the only “social media” I use actively (i.e. post content). (posting nonsense comments on YT doesn’t count, does it? 
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It might change in the future, once I “feel ready” to start building a portfolio in a place such as pixiv or twitter.
But yeah, providing you use Krita, KA is a great place to be a part of, get motivated by seeing other’s progress, get inspired by running into an incidental tip or an idea, and collaborate on the technical side of things in Krita. Honestly, to me KA+Krita is the full package, and definitely something that encourages me to stay here, rather than look for “mainstream” painting software alternatives.
Yeah, Krita is my main art program so I’ll be posting here more often and it’s a nice change. I mean Pixiv is okay, and Twitter is interesting…
(I’m not a big fan of it) But I understand why people use it. I have an account myself, but I use it a lot less then I have in the past. It can be a nice place to look at art though.
I’m hoping these other social media improves til then Krita forum is a pretty nice place to be. That being said, I’ve come from using Paint tool SAI, CSP, and Photoshop so it took awhile to feel comfortable using Krita, but it’s so worth it! :^D
I came upon this topic searching for an already existing kind of “Krita love” thread.
Indeed, when we intend to post somewhere on the internet about any software, service or product, most of time it’s when we need help (or complain, in the worst cases). Today I was thinking about a thing or two to ask for in the forum, but then I also thought, “hey, it’s so amazing to have such a powerful and helpful piece of free, open-source software, I might also post just to say thanks”.
So yeah, big kudos to everyone making and continuously improving Krita. Over the past few years I’ve been simply using it as I used this famous proprietary software (the one we all know) for many years: cleaning up scanned lineart, getting black lineart on a transparent layer separate from the white background, adding a few layers in between for simple flat colors that I like to tweak before I make my mind. As basic as it sounds, it still requires a good deal of features such as a robust layer management, levels/curves, blending modes, non-destructive editing, transparency masks, all sorts of canvas/image settings, convenient tools for selection and fill and whatnot, convenient UI with the ability to pan and zoom and navigate in all sort of ways and map all kinds of things to keyboard shortcuts…
When I first tried out Krita, I was impressed to find that it actually had all that and how gentle the learning curve was, coming from the aforementioned proprietary software. Krita pretty much did all of that just as easily and sometimes in an arguably smarter way.
So during the last couple of years I’ve been using Krita for this - adding flat colors to my kinda ligne claire sort of artwork - with the foolish idea of becoming a late-bloomer in the field of comics/cartoon/illustration. I recently secured my first children’s book deal and I’m grateful towards how Krita has been a precious resource for that. I happily made a donation today.
Being now in a round of revisions, I eventually found the process of scanning bits of artwork and implementing them in the original images rather tedious, and came upon a good deal for a used Cintiq 13HD and it works like a charm with Linux Mint and Krita. I’m kind of discovering a new world, revising illustrations is now much easier and I’m now realizing how convenient is the right-click palette, which my legacy keyboard/mouse workflow had me ignore up until now.
Again, it’s awesome to have such a powerful tool that comes open-source.
As far as the forum, I have a very limited history with it but indeed I can say people here have been very welcoming and willing to help.