Is Krita suitable for photo editing?

Is Krita suitable for photo editing?

I would think not, but my experience with Krita is limited. I'm not a big fan of GIMP either.

If you're stuck with Linux for whatever reason, try Darktable and Lightzone.

I know you didn't ask, but it seems to me as if Windows 7 is the ultimate OS for photography software. Old stuff is compatible, and new stuff is compatible. The selection of free / open source software is outstanding. And, compared to Mac or Linux, it has the largest availability of high-quality commercial products.

Imo yes, but my experience is limited. In windows krita kas color management, layers and correction layers. Clone stamp and even more advanced tools are available... It is photoeditor hidden in paint application...

CAcreeks said:

Krita was available, but GIMP was missing from the Live System of the Kubuntu USB boot drive I made. Perhaps it gets installed with the other K applications. or perhaps not, unless the admin runs apt-get install.

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Gimp is not a KDE application but it should be dead-easy to install with one click in the software-centre (or whatever the package manager is called in *buntu's)

You should be able to make a live-USB with a persistent partition so you can update/upgrade but best thing would be to install side-by-side with Windows (if that's what you are using) to make a persistent install where you can add all of the raw and image-editing goodies on offer such as RawTherapee, Darktable, Gim, GMIC, ImageMagick and more.

CAcreeks said:

Making me wonder:

Is the KDE Krita application suitable for photography, or is it mostly intended for digital painting by graphic artists?

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It's definitely suitable but I prefer Gimp (2.9 series) over it my a large margin. More plugins, scripts and especially GMIC (although I heard they are trying to adapt GMIC for use with KRita as well).

BTW, digikam has a built-in photo-editor called "Showfoto" which is pretty capable as well.

Thanks for the answers so far, Bobthearch, Marcin 3M, and newmikey.

I hadn't heard about Showfoto, which is worth trying out.

I've heard good things about Darktable, less so about Lightzone, but I have used only RawTherapee for Raw conversion.

GIMP has been my preferred photo editor for almost 10 years, so perhaps it's best to stay with a GTK+ based distribution, although KDE is interesting.

CAcreeks said:

GIMP has been my preferred photo editor for almost 10 years, so perhaps it's best to stay with a GTK+ based distribution, although KDE is interesting.

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runs just fine under KDE even though it is a GTK app, absolutely no need to try and find a different distro only because of Gimp. I've always been a KDE type of person although I do have LXDE as a backup and when resources are scarce but I've never been happy with Gnome in any of its incarnations.

KDE has a consistent look 'n feel and excellent configuration options. The newer Plasma desktop is really snappy although I did have to get used to it. You can even change the window widgets of any GTK app to match the KDE theme selected.

newmikey said:

newmikey said:

GIMP has been my preferred photo editor for almost 10 years, so perhaps it's best to stay with a GTK+ based distribution, although KDE is interesting.

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runs just fine under KDE even though it is a GTK app, absolutely no need to try and find a different distro only because of Gimp. I've always been a KDE type of person although I do have LXDE as a backup and when resources are scarce but I've never been happy with Gnome in any of its incarnations.

KDE has a consistent look 'n feel and excellent configuration options. The newer Plasma desktop is really snappy although I did have to get used to it. You can even change the window widgets of any GTK app to match the KDE theme selected.

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I'll try Krita tonight.

In Kubuntu 16.04 I don't like KDE's garish purple red yellow green) default background, but that should be easy enough to change. Having the panel on the right side (vertical) works well, unlike Mint Cinnamon 18.1 where it's a too-new feature. I didn't like the gray color of active and inactive windows, but did not spend time trying to colorize.

One thing I hate about Ubuntu-Mint Brasero (maybe going back to Gnome) is its inability to preserve the creation date of camera JPEG and MOV files when burned to optical disc. I always archive to DVD and it's a pain not to see the original date. So I installed the KDE burner, K3b.

Do you mind posting a snapshot of your desktop? I'm curious how you have it customized.

I'm only a part time infrequent user of Krita. I'm not sure of how you define 'photo editor'. I guess that it's not a true editor in the 'normal' sense. But it can do some magic stuff to your photos with it. If you want to 'play' with photos then it's a great program. But if you mean edit in the traditional sense then I think there would be better options.

Google will give you a few interesting video tutorials.

regards

I don't really understand what you mean as it is all customization to the point of being silly. For me, the choice between desktops is more of a functionality issue. Mind you, you can run KDE applications on a Gnome Desktop and vice-versa so the apps that go with the base system should probably not influence your choice too much - you can always use your package management system to install more with the click of a mouse button.

CAcreeks said:

Do you mind posting a snapshot of your desktop? I'm curious how you have it customized.

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Certainly. I run Arch with a Plasma desktop:



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CAcreeks said:

The Linux KDE desktop comes with digiKam for Raw development and photo management, Kphoto Album for organizing, and Gwenview for image viewing.

Krita was available, but GIMP was missing from the Live System of the Kubuntu USB boot drive I made. Perhaps it gets installed with the other K applications. or perhaps not, unless the admin runs apt-get install. Making me wonder:

Is the KDE Krita application suitable for photography, or is it mostly intended for digital painting by graphic artists?

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Krita is more a drawing program then a pixel editor. GIMP is a pixel editor and quite capable.

newmikey said:

I don't really understand what you mean as it is all customization to the point of being silly. For me, the choice between desktops is more of a functionality issue. Mind you, you can run KDE applications on a Gnome Desktop and vice-versa so the apps that go with the base system should probably not influence your choice too much - you can always use your package management system to install more with the click of a mouse button.

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I'm not sure whether you're asking about time wasted customizing, or about KDE to Gnome cross install. I don't enjoy customizing, and I have many machines, so I prefer a system like Linux Mint where almost everything is immediately OK. Windows 10 is horrible in comparison - it took my wife days to install software and customize the desktop.

As for cross install, it makes the system bigger and less efficient. Several years ago I installed gwenview, which dragged in a bunch of Qt libraries that took the better part of an hour to download. Now I use geeqie instead, which is lighter weight and just as good. A similar thing happened with K3b, although in that case the functionality is worthwhile.

I should probably get involved in the Brasero project to add "creation date" option.

newmikey said:

newmikey said:

Do you mind posting a snapshot of your desktop?

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Certainly. I run Arch with a Plasma desktop:

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Thanks for posting! Looks good. I put the panel (taskbar) on the right side.

I didn't realize PT Lens is available for Linux.

CAcreeks said:

Is the KDE Krita application suitable for photography, or is it mostly intended for digital painting by graphic artists?

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Not really, no.

Krita is great software for digital painting or sketching and it really excels at it. However, for photography edition it would be a last resource. Simple image adjustments like color balance, curves, levels, brightness and contrast are hard to apply and you have to go fishing for them under unintuitive sub-menus. If you are stuck with Linux, use Photoshop CS6 under Wine. Not perfect but much better than trying to tighten a bolt with scissors. If looking for a freebie, it's either Gimp or CS2 which has been liberated by Adobe.



I used it extensively within Ubuntu via Wine to teach elementary photo edition to a group of students and, while not as sophisticated as CC 2019, it sure beats all other freebies.

jorgemtrevino said:

CAcreeks said:

Is the KDE Krita application suitable for photography, or is it mostly intended for digital painting by graphic artists?

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Not really, no.

Krita is great software for digital painting or sketching and it really excels at it. However, for photography edition it would be a last resource. Simple image adjustments like color balance, curves, levels, brightness and contrast are hard to apply and you have to go fishing for them under unintuitive sub-menus. If you are stuck with Linux, use Photoshop CS6 under Wine. Not perfect but much better than trying to tighten a bolt with scissors. If looking for a freebie, it's either Gimp or CS2 which has been liberated by Adobe.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html?promoid=19SCDRQK

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689-adobe-photoshop-cs2.html
I used it extensively within Ubuntu via Wine to teach elementary photo edition to a group of students and, while not as sophisticated as CC 2019, it sure beats all other freebies.

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Agreed. But Krita has some great distortion and brush features that can be used to "correct" some images.

Keep in mind though the cost of Krita!!!!!

Regards

jorgemtrevino said:

If you are stuck with Linux, use Photoshop CS6 under Wine.

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you are trying to answer a post which is over two years old , you seem to excel at providing just about the worst advice ever.

jorgemtrevino said:

If looking for a freebie, it's either Gimp or CS2 which has been liberated by Adobe.

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CS2 is NOT free.

Depends on what you need to do really.

Krita is specifically designed for digital painting, Gimp is way better at photo editing.

Krita has better brushes for drawing right out of factory (and in my opinion a better brush engine to create more) but can't print.

Gimp can print and is a good program for photo editing.

So you'll probably want to use both.

I've got a XP-Pen Star G430 OSU Drawing Tablet and after configuring the pressure curve correctly, it does the job! (I'm using it on Windows & Linux)