• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    gimp isn’t being held back by money, they have over a million in bitcoin just sitting there from an old donation that grew in value. In over a decade, no one has figured out how to pay the taxes on it if they start using it to fund developers.

    I read on reddit a long time ago that a UI designer tried to help improve gimp, but the devs were hostile to it (i may be remembering that wrong though). Considering how long its been with no UI improvements, I don’t think gimp will ever revamp its UI. Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

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      2 months ago

      Unfortunately, Krita’s main dev has long covid and in the last year they haven’t been working much…

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      Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

      As someone who doesn’t really do photo editing, one thing I never quite understood is what’s missing for that to be viable right now.

      For reference, the one time I had to edit a photo a few years ago, I just used Krita to move/remove a few objects and do some basic color grading. It didn’t feel like there was anything missing.

      Granted, I never used software like Photoshop either.

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        I think the missing link is viable raw photo management and color space transforms. Photoshop is just built well for that. But in terms of drawing Krita blows Potatoshop out of the water

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        2 months ago

        There’s a few areas where it’s lacking, the text tool being one of them, and it also can’t export to PDF for professional book cover printing. But I’m not a professional photo editer either, and almost exclusively use Krita for editing anyway, since it’s so my h easier to use.

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          I see. So it’s less about editing the pictures themself, and more about what they’ll be used for.

          And yeah, Krita is main image editing and drawing tool as well, helped out by Inkscape for vector graphics and Aseprite for pixel art.