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05/23/2007 01:39:47 PM · #1 |
| Saw this pop up on a non-photography board that I read. There's an office suite (looks like a nice competitor to OpenOffice) that's available for the KDE environemnt called KOffice and it includes an image editor called Krita that looks like a good competitor to Gimp. I had never heard of it, so I wanted to check and see if anyone has tried it out? |
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05/24/2007 09:27:56 AM · #2 |
| One and only bump for the morning crowd. |
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05/24/2007 09:30:13 AM · #3 |
Heard of it but its not cross platform is it? Isnt gonna run on the gnome environment atleast easily.
Open office has the advantage of being a bit more ported at the moment. Doesnt affect some people but being able to run it on the other gui environments, sun systems, windows systems, mac os. |
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05/24/2007 12:41:02 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Heard of it but its not cross platform is it? Isnt gonna run on the gnome environment atleast easily.
Open office has the advantage of being a bit more ported at the moment. Doesnt affect some people but being able to run it on the other gui environments, sun systems, windows systems, mac os. |
I think you're mixing your platforms and desktop environments. Krita runs absolutely fine under Gnome, you just have to have the necessary KDE libraries installed (which your Linux distribution should take care of for you).
I have it installed but haven't used it in anger yet. It's quite basic at the moment, especially when dealing with RAW files, but it has a lot going for it and is worth keeping an eye on. One thing it does have that Gimp doesn't is 16-bit editing.
Another app you might like to check out is Pixel, though it isn't free and isn't finished yet, it seems to be aiming to be a multiplatform PS clone.
(And just for  RainMotorsports ...
* Pixel is running following platforms now: Windows, Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Linspire, Zeta/BeOS/x86, QNX/x86, FreeBSD/x86, MacOSX/PPC and MacOSX/x86, MorphOS/PPC, eComStation, OS/2, SkyOS and DOS
* In future following ports are possible if thereΓΆ€™s general interest: Linux/x86_64, Linux/ARM, Solaris/x86, Solaris/Sparc, Window x64, NetBSD/x86)
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05/24/2007 03:04:07 PM · #5 |
| I have tried pixel editor, and it is ok, but has a ways to go yet to be a legit app. |
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05/27/2007 02:25:38 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by boomtap:
I have tried pixel editor, and it is ok, but has a ways to go yet to be a legit app. |
In what way? I'm looking at getting Pixel to 'upgrade' from the GIMP, since there's no possible way I can afford PS, and I'm curious to know what its deficiencies are. I'm also curious as to what your definition of a 'legit app' is... especially since Pixel is still in beta release (Beta 6 as of this post) and Pavel Kanzelsberger has not released the final version (which is supposed to be released this year).
Is is simply that Photoshop still has some features as yet unavailable in Pixel? Or is it a stability issue? Or that it's still in beta?
From what I've seen, Pixel has many more features than the GIMP (including the ability to do 32-bit HDR images, CMYK/RGB/Grayscale/and CIE Lab color support, and adjustment layers, among other things) and I'm wondering where it falls short of PhotoShop (since I don't currently have access to PS).
I played with Pixel a bit on my father-in-law's machine and found it to have a quite intuitive interface, plus I liked the extras it has that the GIMP doesn't. I wonder if anyone has done a side-by-side comparison of the features of PS and Pixel (or other editing programs, for that matter).
None of this is meant to be rude or smart-ass, I genuinely want to know. I know VERY little about PhotoShop, and since it seems to be THE program to compare others to, I'd like some feedback as to where Pixel actually stacks up to it. And if anyone knows how Pixel stacks up to the GIMP, that would be waaayyy cooool as well. :)
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05/27/2007 02:49:36 PM · #7 |
| Krita might be a good alternative to Gimp, as it properly supports 16bits per channel, while it might take years before this become available into the Gimp. |
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05/27/2007 05:16:13 PM · #8 |
| bumping to see if anyone knows about PS vs Pixel |
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05/28/2007 09:14:30 AM · #9 |
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