Comments on: Krita, a painting application, not really new news

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:53:02 +0000

For the gimp comment, maybe the gimp is not ready yet, but it is getting there very soon. As for the comment on drawing people, I would claim there is as much people interested in drawing than in advanced photo editing, but since neither of us have real numbers, both claim are empty, and even if there are only a thousand of them, currently they have no good application on linux.

When it comes to OOo, first, I will let you try to answer the question of why there is almost no not-paid contributor to OOo ? And second I would think KOffice and OOo fits two different purposes, one aims to be a light weight, easy-to-use office suite, and the other one is a full bledge office one. (as for OOo Draw it does not come close to compare to Krita, might be comparable to Karbon, though)

By: Tonttu

Tonttu — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:34:21 +0000

Actually, Gimp won’t be getting 16-bit support in 2.8 and even that is maybe a year away.
Some real numbers about photo editing: I just did a search for gimp at dpreview.com for the past year and got 1,694 results. So there seems to be quite a lot of interest.
Btw, do you have any pro matte painters testing Krita right now? I understand they often build on photographed material.
I hope you get the attention you deserve this year and maybe an easier way to install on Windows

By: Cyrille Berger

Cyrille Berger — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:39 +0000

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:46 +0000

If y’all have renounced to have a native KDE program for managing digital photos because of Gimp being such a good piece of software (so “good” that still needs to convert 16 bits/channel RAW images to 8 bits; or which still has no decnet sharpen filter like Photoshop’s one), and being OpenOffice much more eficacious and less buggy, why still working in Koffice instead joining OOo team?
If y’all, devs, have decided that is more important to have a native KDE drawing program, which is something much less people than a digital retouching program need, it’s ok, but then why not collaborate with OOo Draw team instead of duplicating efforts. Kword and Krita (when Krita still was a photo retoiching program) were two of the main “stars” of Koffice; Kword is unusable, and Krita is becoming a program for professionals of digital drawing, so, what’s the point of Koffice? Wouldn’t it be more productive to renounce completely to have an office suite for KDE which works worse than OOo and it’s incomplete, and collaborate in making OOo more powerful and as much integrated in KDE as possible?

Regards.

By: Inge Wallin

Inge Wallin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:02:53 +0000

There is always the possibility of having an image manipulation program *and* a drawing program using the same engine. This could easily be accomplished by a different default set of tools much like Kivio is being revived now as an offspring from Karbon but with some new tools and dockers.