People there claimed that Krita is better than Gimp in photo editing. But your website does not indicate at all that is usable or intended to be usable for that. All examples are drawings.
Maybe include also some photo editing example? Or use word “photo” anywhere on it?
Some comments from that link:
I’ve never looked at Krita because it’s always been referenced to me as a painting application primarily and not an image editing / photo manipulation tool. I understand there may be some cross over in functionality, but aren’t they essentially built for different purposes?
Krita was initially release as a painting program rather than a photo editing program and that was where most of the initial ‘advertising’ was focused. Also looking at their home page the first thing you see is a screen shot of a digital painting and the words
“Krita is the full-featured digital art studio.
It is perfect for sketching and painting, and presents an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters.”
So it is not at all clear to most people that it is a tool that can also be used for photo editing.
Note: maybe Krita is useless for photo editing and current version is correct to not mention photos. I have no idea.
I created this thread following bug reporting guideline. Let me know if that can be considered as a bug or is it coming from confused person.
I think it’s the other way around, GIMP is better for photo editing, but you can also edit photos with Krita. Krita is certainly the better painting software, but I think in other categories and use the software that does a task better for me. This is not an uncommon practice in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) field, and certainly not a disgrace. Why should I limit myself by committing to using only one software “because it is considered better for whatever”? I use the combination of software that is best able to meet my needs.
Don’t think in categories like this or that is better, use whatever is the best choice!
Michelist
Edit: But this is not a feature request and should be better in the Lounge or Site-Feedback category. Ahh, @AhabGreybeard was faster to notice this! As so often!
I think this is in the wrong topic category.
It’s more a matter for discussion with the Promo Team and people like @scottyp and others?
Edit:Add: Yes, I’ll change the category to Lounge. (Site Feedback is for this forum.)
Krita started as the image editor and manipulation program but later down the path the team focused on Illustration . you can read the history of the project here - History | Krita
At the homepage it clearly states the target -
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
concept art
texture and matte painters
illustrations and comics
Some people use it for photo manipulation but it is not the official vision or goal of the project. Every project is free to choose its own goal and focus area krita chose digital painting. And that has helped it reach popularity. There are many Digital Illustration focused application out there so why not one be in the FOSS side. People are free to use it how ever they want but they need to keep in mind that krita is not for photo manipulation not unless the team focuses on that and as far as I know they don’t see the demand for photo manipulation aspect. There are many good quality photo manipulation software for example GIMP and Photoshop people can use them. Although GIMP lately has been slightly focusing on drawing side. it is an image manipulation software at its core.
A screw driver can drive a screw into wood, that doesn’t make it a hammer, nor does a hammer become a screwdriver just because you can beet the screw down into wood with it. Both are tools with overlap a good craftsman uses both depending upon the need.
it is certainly not a bug.
Also I read your post (assuming it is you) the hackernews website,
It has “Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program” with FREE straight out of scam ad
Well we state what we are - a free open source painting program, how is that a scam nobody is scaming anyone we don’t state we are photo manipulation software and give you some malware. if you feel that way it is a pity. I would advice you to not install what you seem a scam you might be at peace.
Edit:
Oh my that hackernews thread is rude. I am sorry for the GIMP developers reading it.
You can do some photo editing in Krita the way you can do some Programming or Word processing in Excel. There’s an overlap but Krita’s main focus is to be a digital painting software, it’s photo editing tools are very basic and pretty much limited to those things you regularly need as a painter or illustrator too. That’s why it’s not advertised as a photo editing tool because it’s photo editing capabilities are basically coincidental.
I too don’t understand how Krita is a scam (like mentioned in your linked thread), that would require some explanation on your part.
When I looked at this thread on the “hackernews” page, it seemed to me that only people with too much time on their hands and nothing better to do with it than to verbally “fight” over things they know only half about at best, and which don’t really interest them and which they don’t really want to use.
At best, they install the programs they are arguing about to look for reasons why they don’t like them, so they can fight better. Sorry, I have better things to do than to deal with this gibberish.
In such “discussions”, in which one word provokes the next, you achieve nothing with counter-speech and well-founded arguments, you only drag them out and amuse their participants, and you can only end them by depriving them of nourishment and keeping away from them.
If then suddenly all remaining are of one opinion, they have nothing more about which they could argue, and can again continue to be bored with themselves and their lives.
Photo editing is explicitly not a part of our mission. Yes, you can use Krita for photo editing if you want to, but we won’t consider photo-editing specific feature requests, we won’t implement workflows for photo editing: we are not interested in photo editing.
I think the issue is the capitalization. I agree it reads cheap, but then again, it does work!
And yes, we’re proud of the awards independent websites and magazines have given us. Maybe the original poster didn’t recognize e.g. ImagineFX as the last major magazine for digital painting that still gets published because that’s not their field and thought we’d made it up…
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