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I'm glad I found an alternative to Photoshop, and GIMP

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Reptorian
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I'm glad I found an alternative to Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET. I am studying product design at the moment, and some of my tool of trades are Illustrator, Inkscape, and Photoshop. When I had Photoshop for a while, I stop using GIMP and Paint.NET just because I do not find those two programs anywhere near useful and I had photoshop. Right when my subscription ended, I went back to try those two programs, but I felt that they're abysmal, and not quite anything I want. Even Inkscape was a better raster-editing program for me, and Inkscape could use better performance IMHO, and quicker development, but it's actually useful for me. I have heard of Krita before, but I thought it was a program that you pay for, and so I haven't bothered to look further, but then I looked again, and then I went to check it out. When I have opened the program, I was a little confused at the GUI, but then I learned more and realized the huge potential after researching a little bit of this program. Here's my questions.

1) Is there a way to link vector image?
2) Why isn't there a way to adjust tangent line of the warp tool?

I want to be able to work with Inkscape and Krita.

Thanks.
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Hello, and Welcome!
We're glad that you find Krita works well for you.

While I cannot help you with those questions myself, I would direct your attention to the Krita sub-forum which is very active with artists, developers and other Krita users helping each other and sharing their works. If the answers to your questions haven't already been addressed there you may well get quicker, better feedback by posting there.

I find it quite amazing that in just the last few years what was just a mediocre raster image editor in the Koffice suite, hardly even worth comparing to Gimp or other similar tools has turned into the primary tool used by communities of artists and a direct competitor to some of the tools in the Photoshop suite.


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Reptorian
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airdrik wrote:Hello, and Welcome!
We're glad that you find Krita works well for you.

While I cannot help you with those questions myself, I would direct your attention to the Krita sub-forum which is very active with artists, developers and other Krita users helping each other and sharing their works. If the answers to your questions haven't already been addressed there you may well get quicker, better feedback by posting there.

I find it quite amazing that in just the last few years what was just a mediocre raster image editor in the Koffice suite, hardly even worth comparing to Gimp or other similar tools has turned into the primary tool used by communities of artists and a direct competitor to some of the tools in the Photoshop suite.


Now that I have more experience with Krita, it seems that I have to install Paint.NET again just to process distortion into image, and that's the only reason I reinstalled that mediocre program. Other than that, I'm not really seeing a good reason to switch back to Photoshop CC besides turning Photoshop files to .kra or something. Krita doesn't really feel like it came from an Office program. It actually feels like a commercial product made for industries, and with when I'm working with, Krita seem to put a huge strain on my powerful PC. 11x17 inches 300 DPI picture manipulation basically, but I like the results better than what I did with Photoshop, and I find myself doing more than what I can with Photoshop. Especially with multiple transparency mask which is really great. I can't do multiple transparency mask within Photoshop CC at all unless I do tedious workaround.


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