Hey guys,

really happy to stumble upon Krita! I wanted to get away from Photoshop for years but haven't found the right alternative.
Krita seems to be the one. It is not quite there yet, mainly because of stability issues/crashing on windows but I have really high hopes.

Some things I wanted to ask:

1) The Brush Preview in the brush settings seems not to work. I cannot draw a stroke in the preview window.
It seems like it stops after the first 1-3 pixel. On the normal Canvas it all works fine. Any Idea?

Specs:

Krita 2.7.8.10 64-bit
Win 7 64bit
Wacom Intous 4

Intel Quad Core Q6600
Nvidia 8800 GTX


2) Same problem appears when I try to use "weighted Smoothing" in the Tool options. Only the beginning of the stroke is visible.

3) Possibility to rotate the canvas?

4) How are your plans regarding development of Krita (especially for windows). For example: currently you see your tool in an pre-alpha stage? Timescedule for alpha phase? Do you plan to release Krita as a commercial program in the future? Planing on optimizing for win?
I am curious because a lot of Open Source projects have a really great start and than they kinda start to lose focus and never getting out of the alpha/beta nearly bugfree status.

Keep up the great work!

Alex

Hi Alex,

The windows version is still experimental -- currently, I'm spending most of my time making windows packages (it's really awfully time consuming) which rather eats into bug fixing time!

I haven't been able to reproduce 1) -- but on my Lenovo Helix with Win8, weirdly enough, the built-in wacom works in the scratchpad, but not on the canvas. 2) is a known bug which we're investigating. Older Windows versions didn't have the bug. 3) The 4 and 6 key rotate at with a fixed degree, 5 resets. Shift-middle mouse button rotates freely. You can configure that with settings/Configure Krita/Canvas Input Settings.

As for the future... I will have been working on Krita for ten years coming October. On Linux it's absolutely ready for professional, daily work. On Windows we need more testing and more work. There are two ways to stimulate that: the first is to join the Krita Development Fund (http://krita.org/support-krita#general), the other is to take out a commercial support subscription from my company, KO GmbH (http://www.kogmbh.com/support-info.html).

Krita will always be free software, but we do want to make it possible for users to support Krita and get a better application in return

Thank you very much for your fast answer!

1) I will install Krita on my workstation tomorrow and see if I get the same problem there.

It is nice of you to keep Krita for free, even if I would not mind paying for a good program with enthusiastic developers.
But I see why you would keep it open source.

I really hope you can improve the windows version in the future. Most people use Windows as their os and Krita could get a lot more attention and funding which it really deserves.
I will start supporting you guys and see how Krita keeps going.

Alex

Thanks!

I'm having the brush preview issue as well, but only in the Windows 64 build (which is what I'm using). The 32 bit doesn't have this problem, but it does have an issue of not closing properly and I have to use ctr alt delete to end Krita functions.

Artmessiah wrote:I'm having the brush preview issue as well, but only in the Windows 64 build (which is what I'm using). The 32 bit doesn't have this problem, but it does have an issue of not closing properly and I have to use ctr alt delete to end Krita functions.

Yes you are right. I have the same issue.
Tested it on my work and home computer. Both with the same issue on 64 bit and none issue on the 32 bit.

Does anyone have a working previewbrushstroke on the 64bit Krita version?

Artmessiah wrote: [...] but it does have an issue of not closing properly and I have to use ctr alt delete to end Krita functions.

Haven't noticed this with the 32bit but will keep testing if I get the same problem.