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   恵真 :hypercat: (emma@niscii.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 12:28:00 JST 恵真 :hypercat:

   never been able to paint in photoshop. i just can't use the brushes properly, sai makes it a lot easier. in general i love sai for drawing since it has almost all the essential tools and it only costs $40 for a lifetime license which is insane. but i do like the look of photoshop paintings better in general

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     恵真 :hypercat: (emma@niscii.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 12:27:58 JST 恵真 :hypercat:

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     • Soul Dessin

     @souldessin@noagendasocial.com i don't think i've given it a proper try for painting

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 12:27:58 JST 翠星石

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     • Soul Dessin
     @emma @souldessin Drawing with a mouse is very difficult, you're only really going to get quality output drawing pixel art or vector graphics in inkscape.
     
     With a drawing pad, drawing is as hard as it is in either GIMP or Krita in my experience.
     
     GIMP excels at image manipulation, but it does support paintbrushes, Krita is designed for drawing.
     
     All software takes getting used to, but GIMP and Krita's interfaces are good (the only issue I've found with GIMP is that some functionalities I regularly use doesn't have a keyboard shortcut).
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     Soul Dessin (souldessin@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 12:27:59 JST Soul Dessin

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     I'm curious if you have ever tried krita, and if so, how did it compare?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 15:23:38 JST 翠星石

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     • Mitch Conner
     @olmitch As far as I can tell, in 1998, Qt was proprietary software.
     
     The audience wasn't NPC frowning, they were free thinker frowning, as they were rightfully disgusted that they just saw free software being turned into proprietary software in front of them.
     
     The patch wasn't published as that would be copyright infringement, although he was free to do whatever he wanted on his own computer - recommending proprietary software by demonstrating "how easy" it was, was detestable.
     
     
     It seems Qt was released as free software in 1999, but only under a GPL-incompatible license - thankfully eventually licenses from the GPL family were used later.
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 15:23:39 JST Mitch Conner

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     • Soul Dessin
     I'm not an artist, but I've heard artists speak favorably of these programs, which are specifically designed for illustration and not photo editing
     
     https://krita.org/en/
     https://inkscape.org/
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 15:23:39 JST Mitch Conner

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     • Soul Dessin
     WTF epic. This mad lad ported The Gimp to Qt in front of a live audience and they NPC frowned in response
     
     >The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrich’s at the 1998 Linux Kongress. Matthias wanted to show the ease with which it was possible to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, and the application he chose to demo it with was GIMP. His patch was never published, but did cause problems with the GIMP community at the time.
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     恵真 :hypercat: (emma@niscii.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 15:23:40 JST 恵真 :hypercat:

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     • Soul Dessin

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @souldessin@noagendasocial.com i hate gimp's interface. i spent so much time trying to make it usable and still couldnt deal with it.