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• RightEdofer@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not but it has had non-destructive adjustment layers for years before Gimp. It’s fine for a lot of things with a much better interface.

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People keep saying Krita is a great alternative to GIMP, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo, but photo editing is not its focus at all.

  That’s not exactly true. Yes, the focus shifted to painting a bunch of years ago but Krita still started out as “KImageShop”. There are many image editing features available and unlike Gimp, it A) works across all major PC operating systems equally (and Android), B) uses an up to date toolkit and doesn’t lag behind by years (Gimp only recently adopted GTK3), C) doesn’t user headerbars, and D) isn’t named after “a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment”.

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  • danielton1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Krita may have started out as a photo editor, but that’s clearly not its focus today. If I need to edit a photo, I will use a tool better suited for that task, even if that tool isn’t as pretty as Krita.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Krita may have started out as a photo editor, but that’s clearly not its focus today.

      Editing features were not removed, so it’s still a capable image editor, formal focus or not.

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      • danielton1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They were either never added, or they feel clunky to use. Either way, the GIMP is better suited even if it’s uglier.

        Krita is a great tool for artists, but I’m not going to force myself to use it instead of the GIMP, and I’m not going to tell others it’s designed for something it’s not. I’ll keep checking in on it, but until it does what I need it to, it’s not going to become my main tool for photo editing.

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