While krita is primarily a drawing app, i like it more for general image editing than gimp.
Same, it’s what I personally use as well. I had to somewhat learn my way around photoshop to navigate designs as a web dev at a prior job, so I find the interface a lot more intuitive than GIMP (at least when I last used it several years ago) with that prior experience.
Interesting, I was sometimes kinda curious how they compared in that regard!
If you wanted to expand on that I’d be curious to hear your thought and experience on how things compare, but I appreciate you sharing that take ☺️
I dont need any professional tools for my editing needs. I usually need something that can do basic editing and do it good. Krita is just simpler to use for my use cases than gimp.
Not the person you responded to, but I also generally prefer Krita for GIMP-y/Photoshop-y tasks, though I am by no means an expert photo-shopper, just an amateur.
Krita has most of the necessary tools for photo editing, especially as it now comes with the G’mic tool pre-installed (it can be added to GIMP as a plugin, too), which is incredibly powerful, and has features such as a fantastic heal/object removal tool called Inpaint (shown here in GIMP, but the same process is used in Krita), as well as a quite good alternative to Adobe’s Magnet Select tool called Extract Foreground.
GIMP has a different heal tool plugin available called Resynthasizer that I think is a little quicker to use, but from what I recall didn’t give quite as good a result compared to the G’mic inpaint (though much better than Krita’s non-G’mic heal tool, which gave the worst results).
There’s more tutorials on different G’mic functions here, which really shows off how capable of a toolset it is.
The new text tool is huge, since the old one was naff to use. This new one is a game changer for me.
Supports Wayland colour management now, nice! Good step forward for artists.
