Wow. Having fun playing with Krita at the moment, just getting the hang of how it works. So far I'm loving many of the changes (both from Krita 1.6 and Gimp and Photoshop etc).

Some very cool stuff hiding inside Krita:

• Split views (compare images or work on >1 image at a time)
• Layer effects (eg Dropshadows)
• Filter Masks
• Crazy number of new layer types eg: Group layers, Shape (vector) Layers, Filter Layers, Generator Layers (create something from scratch) and HDR(!) Layers (from bracketed photos)
• CMYK (L*A*B and other colourspaces)

I'm *loving* the various spray brushes and the dynamic brush. Spray brush works just how I always wished Gimp's would. Chalk, sumi-e, deform and dyna brush all make for great additions to the artistic toolkit beyond the usual photo touch-up stuff. Still trying to figure out the filter, mixing and curve brushes. The filter brush looks like it has the potential to be one *powerful* tool. I just hope that photoshop / gimp users don't miss the wealth of great functions in the "artists materials" dropdown because we're used to everything being stored in the toolbar.

Still trying to figure out quite a few things, some of which may just be beta bugs, some of which are probably just different to what I'm used to. Not quite sure, for example, how the "artists materials" relate to which tool from the toolbar you're using. For some reason (presumably flake related) toolbar tools also keep turning into Karbon's toolset (line, modify curve, pattern editing tool etc) and I haven't figured out how to get back to krita's painting tools yet. Still, I'm guessing this is probably just a documentation issue, so hopefully when I figure out my way around I can add it to userbase or something.

[EDIT: Realised you have to have a paint layer selected to get to the paint tools]

Anyway, thanks to all the Krita devs for your hard work. The foundations are looking great (layout, colour management, innovative artist materials etc). Congratulations, too on the new forum. Nice to be able to post without creating yet another website account! I'll post some images of stuff I've been using Krita on when I get the chance.

Cheers


PS Just for the record, my Konqi avatar was mainly done in Karbon, and touched up / cropped / rescaled in Krita.

That's a very cool avatar! And yes, we're aware that the toolbox situation isn't ideal. We're not sure how go about it -- making two toolboxes, one for Krita, one for KOffice tools might be a solution. I'm a very simple user of Krita myself, despite being the maintainer, so I generally only use the freehand paint tool...

boudewijn wrote:That's a very cool avatar!

Thanks!

And yes, we're aware that the toolbox situation isn't ideal. We're not sure how go about it -- making two toolboxes, one for Krita, one for KOffice tools might be a solution.

If I might make a suggestion:
* Using lables would make things clearer. Each lable would start a "new line" in the icon layout. If needed longer lables can be abbreviated with a "..."
* Greying out and using a tooltip for unavailable tools would help users understand why something is unavailable.

Mockup (done in Krita) as follows:


EDIT: Augh! Guess who used cruddy image hosting and then wiped his system and the only remaining copy of this image... Yup, you guessed it...

That looks like a very good idea -- I think it could work pretty well.

gee, I should check some of that stuff, I only use the common brush

Kubuntiac wrote:Split views (compare images or work on >1 image at a time)

I used split views for work in a particular place (with lot of zoom) and still see the whole image in the other view. But split views are unfortunally crash prone

If you're running trunk (the latest code compiled on your machine), this is an ideal opportunity to send in a bug report.

I think I fixed a couple of reasons for split views to be crashy this week, so feel free to try again . Right now I am _particularly_ interested in crashes that have anything to do with having one or more views in one window, either concurrently or successively.

@kubuntiac: yep, reported

m4v wrote:@kubuntiac: yep, reported

Awesome.