Krita Kickstarter

James Ordner

Krita is my favorite digital painting app, and on top of that, it's open source! They're running a kickstarter to fund two devs full time to work on the 2.9 release. Check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve

SkyWay

I second this, Krita replaced Photoshop for me even before my CC sub ran out. It's focused a bit differently than Photoshop, but do take a look at it folks.

Cremuss

Yes yes and yes It's my main painting app since 2.8 was released and I love it ! I would donate if I could but right now things are too tigh for me. Best luck for the krita team !

boudewijnrempt

Hi Cremuss!

If money is tight (something that I can entirely understand!) then don't worry, but just help spread the word. We're really trying to reach out to artists who aren't yet in the libre graphics world, we want to spread the word as far as we can!

Boud

Greg DAlessandro

I'm glad this program exists

Michael Knubben

Krita's been a pretty big surprise for me. They're focused on the right features (also for 3d texture artists, with tiled painting and upcoming 3d preview and multi-channel painting), and they seem to move a lot faster than similar free programs. If they keep this up I can see them replacing Manga Studio for my painting software, and with the 3d features and psd support it might make me open Photoshop a lot less...

Fuiosg

I'd like krita to succeed, but some of the UI/navigation is a tad annoying. It feels like they're trying to intentionally distance themselves from photoshop, but in doing so it comes off alittle clunky in areas. One big irritation for me is that your eraser's size is locked to the size of your paint brush, unless you switch to an 'eraser brush', but then that messes up your workflow if you're using more than one brush, because you can't quick switch between them.

anyway hope they meet their goal, it's probably the best alternative to PS yet.

Michael Knubben

I agree that standardisation is something they should work on, either default or as an option. For instance shift-clicking to make a line, rather than using a seperate line tool... this isn't just Photoshop, a LOT of software uses this, including even 3d painting software.

Ponk

This should be a news on main page!
I don't use Krita righ now because not have much time to learn new software. However I supported this campaign. Couple months and finally I will be able to remove PS from my workflow and cancel CrapyCloud subscription.

joarwho

Wow! This looks promising. I'm gonna download this right away and if I like it I'll probably chip in a couple of bucks.

Rayph

I will have to give this a go. My main problem in jumping from photoshop to any other painting program is that nothing handles layer functionality and masks quite as well as photoshop, both of which are super important for quickly getting ideas out that you can iterate on rapidly.

Ponk

Same as Rayph. Masks, Layers and clipping mask are my common workflow and for now only photoshop can do the job. Thankfully Krita developers will work on that after this campaign.

Michael Knubben

Yeah, that's exactly why this kickstarter is important, to get funding for some fundamental issues such as that!

Fuiosg

One really nifty feature in Krita is the wraparound tool, makes painting seamless textures easy. You just press 'w', then enable open gl in settings to visualize the repeating effect. I had been doing this previously in blender.

http://krita.org/item/196-new-wraparound-tool

Joopson

REALTIME MIRRORING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, AND REALTIME TILING. That's all there is to say. It's all I've used it for so far, but boy is it lovely. It's what Photoshop's been missing since forever. I think Krita has a bright future.

xvampire

quite promising

JustMeSR

Fuiosg wrote: »

One really nifty feature in Krita is the wraparound tool, makes painting seamless textures easy. You just press 'w', then enable open gl in settings to visualize the repeating effect. I had been doing this previously in blender.

http://krita.org/item/196-new-wraparound-tool

Yes! I love that feature.

kneedeepinthedoomed

I wonder if I can install Krita without also getting KDE's Nepomuk "semantic desktop" stuff, which I don't like. I don't need or want anything indexing all my personal data.

It would be cool if there was a pure Qt-driven version not requiring KDE, since Krita does look pretty good.

Dataday

Just realized they featured one of my pieces in their kickstarter. Awesome!

I highly recommend Krita as a primary painting application, especially for illustration and concept art. its great as it is and with further development it can only get better.

weee

kneedeepinthedoomed wrote: »

I wonder if I can install Krita without also getting KDE's Nepomuk "semantic desktop" stuff, which I don't like. I don't need or want anything indexing all my personal data.

It would be cool if there was a pure Qt-driven version not requiring KDE, since Krita does look pretty good.

a Qt based Krita will be cool, also, last time i checked 2.8 the 6d art pen doesn't work quite as expected, if they fix that in the new version, i'd be happy to pick it up as a serious painting alternative.

boudewijnrempt

Give the latest builds a try -- we fixed rotation for the new kind of art pen on Windows and Linux (the Intuos 3 art pen did different things).

Also, while the kickstarter is running (more than 50% funded -- but there's a way to go still, so please help spread the word wide and far), we've already started working on some things.

For instance, in tonight's build, there'll be support for raw heightmaps, both 8 and 16 bits deep :-)

See also the recent development update: http://krita.org/item/240-last-week-in-krita-week-23-24

boudewijnrempt

Fuiosg wrote: »

I'd like krita to succeed, but some of the UI/navigation is a tad annoying. It feels like they're trying to intentionally distance themselves from photoshop, but in doing so it comes off alittle clunky in areas. One big irritation for me is that your eraser's size is locked to the size of your paint brush, unless you switch to an 'eraser brush', but then that messes up your workflow if you're using more than one brush, because you can't quick switch between them.

anyway hope they meet their goal, it's probably the best alternative to PS yet.

Well, you can quick switch between brush presets with the / key. We're also working on some ideas for having shorcuts for the last X brushes, but those aren't really ripe yet.

weee

boudewijnrempt wrote: »

Give the latest builds a try -- we fixed rotation for the new kind of art pen on Windows and Linux (the Intuos 3 art pen did different things).

Also, while the kickstarter is running (more than 50% funded -- but there's a way to go still, so please help spread the word wide and far), we've already started working on some things.

For instance, in tonight's build, there'll be support for raw heightmaps, both 8 and 16 bits deep :-)

See also the recent development update: http://krita.org/item/240-last-week-in-krita-week-23-24

is the latest build 2.8.3? where to fetch?

boudewijnrempt

The latest build is 2.8.79.6. Check https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve/posts/880799 for more information and a download link. I'll make a new build this afternoon with the 8 and 16 bit heightmap filters and the editable selection feature Dmitry just completed. That will be 2.8.79.7 :-)

weee

boudewijnrempt wrote: »

The latest build is 2.8.79.6. Check https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve/posts/880799 for more information and a download link. I'll make a new build this afternoon with the 8 and 16 bit heightmap filters and the editable selection feature Dmitry just completed. That will be 2.8.79.7 :-)

just checked, now art pen works beautifully, cheers!

Fuiosg

boudewijnrempt wrote: »

Well, you can quick switch between brush presets with the / key. We're also working on some ideas for having shorcuts for the last X brushes, but those aren't really ripe yet.

I know about the quickswitch key, but I'm saying if you use more than 2 paint brushes in your work flow you can't really quickswitch to an eraser brush.

Perhaps you could add a setting to not constrain the eraser size to that of the current brush?

boudewijnrempt

weee wrote: »

just checked, now art pen works beautifully, cheers!

Yay!

boudewijnrempt

And... Here's our first OSX build: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve/posts/894745 :-)

Lamoot

I don't do digital painting, but I pledged and I support your efforts. It's great to see an open source project with so much activity and momentum. In the end we all profit

It's also worth to mention how well the campaign is going. With 10 days left, it's at more than 90% of the goal.

boudewijnrempt

Thanks for the support! And we made it last night -- now it's time to do some stretching :-)

Lazerus Reborn

Congrats on getting funded guys! I hope the fresh blood on the market gets everyone going again

Teessider

congrats on the funding guys! Will be definitely looking into Krita

almighty_gir

Congrats guys!

Michael Knubben

Woo! Well-deserved, Boudewijn and co.
Hope you make the stretch goal as well!

Dataday

Congrats. Krita keeps gaining in its user base, and its well deserved.

boudewijnrempt

And yet another update -- new Windows and OSX build (proper app bundle this time, but still really, really, really-we-mean-it buggy): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve

boudewijnrempt

And... we're done: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve :-)

Ponk

Congratulations!