Being useful for sketching, drawing, and painting is actually a feature of generic editors like Photoshop or Affinity Photo. A lot of people use these software for painting with great success, and in some cases, even better than painting-dedicated softwares. There’s no evidence for the second part given it subjectivity and how the future isn’t always predictable. Some people like the OP of this thread used Krita for retouching with success. I also have retouched photos with Krita with success as well.
Of all of these, the only real argument is useful filters. Updates happens in both software, there are people that do want better selection tools, and some filters can be covered via g’mic for Krita, some of us like myself do plan to work on these (I’m working on the process of making mean filter to have guided selection tools for Krita). Opencl may or may not work, in my case, the last time I tried GIMP, it was far too slow, and I don’t desire to report the bug solely because I lost faith in GIMP for the absence of NDE and 8-bit restriction for years. Krita also support linear mode, so that’s not a real argument, and Krita has better color space support than GIMP now.
In other words, the “pure” photography part is what impact the end result mostly? That’s common knowledge for many people including myself, I just don’t know why to bring this up.
Nice ! I’m looking forward to wire darktable’s filmic to an OCIO transform, so Krita and darktable can share the display transform (without applying it on the actual pixel).
I believe, after this step, the image operations will be ready to start considering the workflow inlining.
yes, exactly, it’s just because we disable filmic before going into Krita, so letting anything after filmic would change the look in an unpredictable way.
thank you,
I work with film and here is a scanned photo of a fomapan 100 negative. And the drawing is of course made under krita, with a graphic tablet.
I think the developers of darktable do a stellar job, because since I started to use Dt, I continued to learn quickly and abandoned without problems several other applications for the same job.
Anyway, for me it looks like, Dt is evolving even more, so I am wondering innocently why some painting feature can’t be added to Dt as well, instead to add dependencies for one single feature, indifferently how well that single feature is working…
