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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Gimp is better suited for this role

Krita is a art focused program

You also cannot add information to ~~blurted~~ blurred pictures, you can only approximate

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Take 2 people that have not used gimp or krita. Ask them to daw a circle, and see which software they are able to do it in.

Gimp is a ux nightmare (or at least it used to be i haven't used ot in years) I will try gimp 3 when it comes out in 2037

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Gimp hasn't changed a ton in the last three years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

GIMP 3.0 will be released this year, as far as I remember. (I already using the final test version for 3.0).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As someone coming from Photoshop it's really hard to get into Gimp with it missing the layer effects you'd expect, which you all have in Krita.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Krita is aimed for Digital Painting, not Photo Manipulation, Photi Manipulation it's GIMP's work.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I use Krita as an image editor and I prefer it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I’m just here for the blurted pictures

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gimp is an UI nightmare, I don't recommend it to anyone. Krita can't be worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Honestly i don't see the problem, i've been using GIMp since around 2013 or 2015, i never had issues with the UI