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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:47:19 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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   Like, you go in to Krita thinking "Ah yeah, this'll be like Photoshop but worse, for the people with opinions about software licenses to pretend to like in the name of freedom or whatever," and then you give it five minutes and it just completely knocks your socks off.

   Example, built-in timelapse function. Press one button (one button!) and it'll go "aye aye captain" and save a snapshot of every change and then make it into a video of you starting with a blank page and going stroke by stroke before ending with whatever awesome thing you made.

   Brushes? Brushes out the wazoo! Watercolour brushes! Proper physics and stuff! Stroke with the very tip of the stylus and it just moves existing paint and water around, press harder and the paint comes out 'cause it's thicker and in the middle bit of the bristles!

   All those layer blending modes that Photoshop comes with? Krita *starts* with all those and then goes "Heh, cute," and gives you like forty more better ones.

   Krita doesn't compete with Photoshop, it *embarrasses* Photoshop

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:47:20 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     Fourteen years of keeping a Windows XP virtualbox installation just so I can fire up Photoshop every now and then, figure I'll see what I can get for free now that PS is finally losing relevance 'cause of the whole subscription thing, and I Get Prepared to go slog through some shite.

     See, the last time I fiddled with Not-Photoshop, the best free alternative had a cringe name and a crap interface and if you said "Hey can you change the name and/or interface" the cringiest bunch of weirdos on the planet would spit their dummies out at you and throw a massive embarrassing wobbler. So this time I tried Krita, expecting it to also have a crap interface and be generally a bit wonky, and wow.

     WOW.

     This doesn't just replace Photoshop; it pisses all over it.

     ALL. OVER IT.

     Anything Photoshop did, this thing does better, and it does more things too, and it's *free?*

     Yeah if you're keeping a Windows box around just for Photoshop, have a fiddle about with Krita. It slaps.