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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

As someone who doesn't really do photo editing, one thing I never quite understood is what's missing for that to be viable right now.

For reference, the one time I had to edit a photo a few years ago, I just used Krita to move/remove a few objects and do some basic color grading. It didn't feel like there was anything missing.

Granted, I never used software like Photoshop either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a few areas where it's lacking, the text tool being one of them, and it also can't export to PDF for professional book cover printing. But I'm not a professional photo editer either, and almost exclusively use Krita for editing anyway, since it's so my h easier to use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I see. So it's less about editing the pictures themself, and more about what they'll be used for.

And yeah, Krita is main image editing and drawing tool as well, helped out by Inkscape for vector graphics and Aseprite for pixel art.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think the missing link is viable raw photo management and color space transforms. Photoshop is just built well for that. But in terms of drawing Krita blows Potatoshop out of the water