Anyone using krita instead of gimp?

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I just did a simple job for an onlus that required cmyk profile (offset printing).
So I betrayed the loved gimp for the more accurate, at least in this specific field, krita.
A part from the kde dependence, krita is really a great piece of software which growth enormously in the last year.
Many people I know that use kde still use gimp.
Anyone use it for everyday job, instead of gimp?
Or is lacking something for substitute gimp, at least in a kde environment?

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I’ve been supporting their kickstarter campaigns for a little while now (I’ve even got a few Kiki stickers around). It is an awesome piece of software that has really been accelerating their growth lately (G’MIC integration!).

I think it’s a different project aimed at a different market (digital painting, sketching, image creation from scratch).

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That’s true. Krita first target is digital painting.
But using it for editing purpose I find everything where it is supposed to be.
And thinking of the slowness of development (upstream, of course) of gimp I think that krita could be pushed a little more even in that field.
Or am I missing something?

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I’ve tried using it recently to do some image touch-ups. One big pro is 16-bit support, but I found performance when working with large files (34000x5000 pixel images) made it unusable.

According to their blog, performance improvements are a big issue for them, and I look forward to using it when 3.0 is released.

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I think this is mostly due to the fact that Krita does not support mipmaps (see discussion here: Krita launches second Kickstarter campaign to fund development | Libre Graphics World).

For large images, computing the whole full-res version and then scale it down for on-screen preview is a performance killer. Once they will have introduced the mipmaps mechanism the situation will probably get better… for the moment, I also find it rather unusable for photo retouching tasks.

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I’ve also been supporting them via their kickstarters as well. I think they’ve done an excellent job with them and raised the funds they need. Their communication has been great, and even better, they’ve delivered the promised feature sets.

I don’t think it’ll ever replace gimp, as the focus isn’t the same, but I think the gimp team could learn a thing or two from them about marketing and fund raising.

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I as well have tried KRita, but since most of the images I work with are of the “very large” variety I gave up due to speed and other performance issues. If they straighten that out, I might give it a go again.

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