Hello Krita lovers!

I just started using krita for painting recently, and I am amazed by how WONDERFUL it is seriously! I don't have a very good tablet, and the drawing features are amazing!

I also dabble in photography, and Krita's selection of filters/masking/layering tools is so great that it only needs a little push to become a fully-fledged photoshop alternative (at least from my humble perspective): Healing tools & lasso!

I want to make this plea to the great developers of Krita: help us ditch photoshop and adobe's dominance for good!

There is a simply healing option in the duplicate brush under the "Painting Mode" setting. There also is a simply (not magnetic) lasso tool it under "Select by outline".

Keep in mind that we are not competing with Photoshop on the photo stuff. Krita aims at painting, so these tools are currently not planned for the next version (though that just depends of someone stepping up to do them).

Slangkamp is right about Krita's focus having become painting, although it should be pointed out that in Photoshop the heal brush does something different to the clone tool. The heal brush, as I understand it, works more with areas that contrast highly in either tone or value, making it good for removing spots, scratches etc, whie the clone tool just copies areas with a soft edged brush.

And, despite bein a Photshop competition isn't Krita's goal, it already has very useful features that makes it get very close, however, the development direction it has right now seems to be the right one, cheers to that

I agree that the development of Krita is going really nicely, I personally use it on an almost daily basis as I'm teaching myself digital painting.

I guess what I'm saying is the path that krita is taking has gotten it so close to the features photoshop offers that it would only take a little more to make it a complete replacement. I understand it is not exactly what krita developers may have in mind, but considering it's so close, I guess what I'm thinking is: why not take that last step? But again, I am not a software developer so I guess it might require a lot more work than I think.

Again, thanks for this great piece of software! Krita definitely rocks!

The basic idea is this, time spent developing each photo editing feature is both time not spent on features for our target audience (painters) and that there will *always* be "Just one more small (photo editing) feature" people would want to have until the end of time.

As far as I can tell, the dev's are happy for people to work on photo editing features for inclusion in Krita, if they're also happy to maintain them. It's really just that the core team are choosing to do one niche and do it well, rather than dilute effort. Other people willing to put the work in though are always welcome! (And no, I can't code either...)