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Krita, I use it for everything, I hate gimp, it feels so bad
I second Krita. I've used gimp for years but recently tried Krita and now I rarely open gimp anymore on purpose.
My biggest complaints with krita are around it not being easy to align objects and the text tool could use some love. Other than that, it feels like a great photoshop replacement
Yeah, text tool is just awful but I feel like I heard that they're working on an update quite some time ago ...
I didn't think either were noticeably worse than in gimp for my use, but you might be comparing to a higher bar (or your use is more intricate than mine), lol.
I have quite liked the ability to turn on snapping for lining things up, and managed recently to freehand a very nearly perfect hexagon with it's help... But I really wish there were some options for drawing polygons though... Even mspaint has the option to draw some basic shapes like stars and arrows and various polygons with just click and drag.
In general I feel like its probably KDE's best software package outside of its DE. Know of any other super good KDE apps?
Okular is pretty great, I can't find a package that does good annotation of PDFs built on GTK.
I use Okular all the time. I am so dense I didn't even realize Krita and Okular were both developed by KDE...
No worries, it's pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is "it has a K in it"...
Ouf, :(
I did say I was dense... lol
Except for the also outstanding KDE Connect which could just be called Konnect.
Okular is great. Kate is amazing. Kdenlive is BY FAR the most advanced FOSS video editor. I'd easily put Kdenlive above Krita, but that's because of my particular use case.
Krita looks more like a drawing and animation solution, whereas GIMP is an editing / manipulation solution. Or can Krita be used as an editor, too? I'm going to download later and give it a shot, but just wanted your opinion so I have better expectations.
i use it as an editor even though thats not really its use case. i just feel like gimp is far too clunky, it just feels "off" to me in comparison to photoshop
That makes sense. Thanks for the input!