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Krita linux brush slow11/19/2023 ![]() Krita is more involved in that regard.If it takes more memory than the limit, it means it started "swapping" (using your hard drive instead of RAM). I really like MyPaint for its simplicity and clean UI - I like to just have a canvas and keyboard shortcuts for everything. Once getting that, having vector graphics in a bitmap program is pretty innovative. But it does feel like the program hangs/bugs out to a casual first-time trier. In previous versions anyway (didn't try it with 2.7), you would then remain on that vector layer also when switching back to bitmap tools - I know to separate vector from bitmap now, after having read up on things. The tools for vector work is confusingly similar to those for bitmap - trying the vector tools I've found the program (without telling me) creates a vector layer - on which bitmap tools will not work. Ubuntu is still Debian under the hood after I'm not fully convinced about how the vector tools are presented to the user in Krita It adds a lot of confusion to the beginner for sure. That said, you can still run any version of programs, including GIMP2.8, you just need to install it yourself from some other repo than Ubuntu's official. Will see if I can stand a fixed version system or not. I'm just in the beginning of testing out Linux Mint myself, after having used rolling-release Debian SID for many years. It's still very much pre-alpha though and whereas Krita offers a lot of features that GIMP yet doesn't, it's also a lot less stable nor as ubiquotous as GIMP of Aye, the image is not all that exciting, but as the caption says, that was also not really the A drawback of using non-rolling releases. The boon with using powerful external libraries is of course that they get a lot of functionality for free (the damn program even supports Inkscape-like vector graphics mixed with normal bitmap graphics as well as CMYK and 32-bit colour and plenty of other really nifty stuff). To be fair GIMP-dev requires a lot of latest-level libraries compiled too. MyPaint is certainly a lot easier to set up and use - one of the drawbacks with Krita is that you need a truckload of dependencies, including the massive Calligra KDE library. Set up a dual-boot and run Windows and Linux on the same machine - that's what I do (I only use Windows for gaming anyway). Seriously, if you want to experience FOSS software in the fullest, you should really use Linux. There is a highly experimental Krita installer for Windows here, but the 2.7 version seems to not work with tablets which sort of defeats the point. Note the nifty 3D brush cursor in the lower right of the image, it angles the same as the tablet pen (similar to Corel Painter)) (Screenshot of Krita on my machine, click for larger view. I'll be exploring Krita a bit in the coming weeks, if anyone is interested in a more full review down the line, let me know. The image itself is not much to write home about, but the painted effect did work quite well I think. Deevad (Davod Revoy) made a brush pack, and above I'm testing the hard-bristles-wet brush, which smears colour as if you used a bristled paintbrush if you push it hard enough into the canvas. It has a host of brush engines such as one that simulates brush hairs and another that blends colour on the canvas. ![]() Since it (as opposed to MyPaint) has support for image-brushes and animation brushes (it can import brushes from both GIMP and PS), there are a lot of stuff you can do with it. Its brush handling is now much faster than GIMP's (In 2.8 brushes are really quite slow for me), as well as considerably more flexible. ![]() Anyway the GIT development version (2.7 pre-alpha) has improved dramatically from previous versions I've tried. Krita is one of those programs I know I should like, but so far I've not really gotten into it, mainly because it was always either very slow or very unstable on my system for some reason. I've been testing out Krita lately (so strictly speaking this is not "Gimp Art", sorry). There were some discussions of emulating painting here lately, here's another take on that. ![]()
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