• strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Because the experience is designed around different use cases.

    In Krita primary use cases are for painting and drawing so those tools and features are front and centre, easier to reach and remember.

    In Gimp the focus is on editing, filtering, effects

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      7 months ago

      I think you are wrong. Both tools allow for editing images in general purpose. What exactly do you even mean? The tools are there like in GIMP and as easy to reach and remember. Just because the one program has better brushes than the other does not invalidate the usage of everything else. And even if you were right, it would be helpful if someone creates tutorials like on GIMP.

      • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I mean, you’re free to continue using your crescent wrench as a hammer if you find it drives nails for you decently well and you are comfortable using it that way. But it was neither designed with that purpose in mind, nor does anyone expect you to use it that way, so no one will be writing how-to guides on it.

      • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        Hmm, I’m not expressing my opinion, these are the statements from the creators of the tools themselves

        Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

        It IS a painting program, the reason why you can do a lot of the same things that you can in GIMP is because all of those features are useful in both to both painters and editors

        GIMP is a multi-tool it can do illustration but it’s focus is more general purpose and more on being an GNU Image Manipulation Program

        Again, these are not my opinions, these are objectionable facts taken from the source.

        If you disagree with these you are fine to do so, but telling people they are wrong is just ridiculous and looks wilfully ignorant or argumentative

        • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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          7 months ago

          Again, these are not my opinions, these are objectionable facts taken from the source.

          Just because a statement as an objective fact, does not make it to one. If a program is suited for general purpose editing is an opinion. And what the developers say doesn’t matter in this point. We have our own judgement and opinion.

          If you disagree with these you are fine to do so, but telling people they are wrong is just ridiculous and looks wilfully ignorant or argumentative

          But you are doing it yourself (with the argumentation it being an objective fact). So if you call people out, then don’t do it yourself. If people are wrong, then I will tell them they are wrong. Krita is a better general purpose editing tool than GIMP is.

          But guys like you are just repeating what others say, even if its wrong. Krita is not a painting tool, it is a tool that does painting and general purpose editing. It does not matter what you call the application and how it is marketed from the developers. It is better suited as a general editing tool than GIMP. And I use GIMP since 2008 or so.