Well it was bound to happen. I've used GIMP for over 11 years... 11 YEARS! That's a hell of a lot of years that I've used it. But I was going to have to retire it sooner or later.
Don't get me wrong, I love gimp. I love it with all my heart and soul but it's not going anywhere anymore. Krita is a breath of fresh air in the Open Source Community and it's going somewhere.
*It has crowd funding for one meaning more support and time and money to place into improving the *product for people.
*it has developers that are working constantly to improve it.
*It has CMYK support
*It supports 16 and 32 bit colour depths
*It has a wider selection of brushes
*It has a better built in stabilizer comared to GIMP or Paint tool SAI (far more customizable I should say.)
*It is constantly getting updated.
Now here are some of the problems with GIMP that are making me move away from it.
*It doesn't have crowd funding support, meaning that instead of having some better support for the product and use it as a means to hire developers to help code and build new features, it still relies on antiquated ways of just plain donations to support the very few developers still developing it.
*There isn't enough developers working on it to get any updates out in a timely fashion. Some of this is due to bad management early on in GIMP's Development some of the original Lead Devs on it were real sticklers, pain in the asses that didn't wanna change some of GIMP's Core functionality. Some people who wanted to contribute and add on to the project left because some of there ideas were not being listened to. Especially on things like Gimps Interface. And for years GIMP had one of the worst interfaces any artist would want to use. It was something only a Developer would like. Not an artist or a photographer unless they were either working on the cheap and wanted somethign like photoshop but without the price tag of photoshop.
*GIMP Lacks CMYK support which as many people know is a big thing needed for printers if your going to get items printed. CMYK does exist in the 2.9 builds(
*GIMP lacks 16-bit and 32-bit colour depths. More Colour Depth means more accurate colours Which is something GIMP really needs if it wants to appeal to artists.
*GIMP has a very limited selection of Brushes in it's install. This can be both a plus and a minus. Less brushes means a lighter install. Plus not to mention the fact there a tone of brushes you can download and install in GIMP. Plus Photoshop brushes are backwards compatible with GIMP which is another plus for gimp. However the big minus is that it means you got to go out and search for brushes. It's better to have a wide selection in the main install than limit yourself to very few.
*Ever since GIMP 2.8 they implemented a form of stabilizer in it. However it's stabilizer is not the best of stabilizers. First off when selecting the paintbrush, the ink pen or even your pencil tool there is an option called smooth stroke that you have to tick on. not so much a big deal. It's smooth stroke options are
Quality: 20
and Weight 50.0
sounds decent test, doesn't work out so well. That's fine play with the settings find something that works. However every time I've tested this the only way to get good results at all for me anyway was to always set the quality at 100 and the Weight at 1000.00. That was the only way I got it to feel smooth and not cause lines to look jagged or anything like that.
If I got to set the stabilizer at all to it's highest settings to get good results at all... It means the stabilizer needs a ton more work.
*Gimps biggest and worst problem is that it's so slow at updating. I do understand that it's developers do have lives but they got many other means to improve things for themselves and GIMP. Like using Crowdfunding as I pointed out. Something Krita is using and using to great success.
Gimp lacks a lot of other tools artists need but I don't think I need get into that so much.
I need to switch. GIMP was my go to option for years. Now Krita is looking like the best FREE alternative to all apps out there like Photoshop, GIMP, Paint Tool SAI, MyPaint.net, Manga Studio, Clip Studio, etc, etc.
Though I do plan to fully switch over. For now I'll still do some thigns in GIMP at the moment. I'm still learning Krita, if you wanna take a look at anything I've done in Krita, look in my scraps folder. it's nothing that special at the moment. just basic drawings and just literal goofing off as I try and get to know the program better.
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