/loomis/ - Art Gains

It is a very interesting program, and it shows that it is of good quality. On one occasion I had the opportunity to try it but it did not work correctly.

Apparently the program does not work with the tablet that I use.

>mfw I have to use a genius tablet

>I'm damm poor to not be able to buy a cheap wacom

>>10626

It's ok anon, me too. I want to apologize for calling you a jerk. Here's a picture I've just finished for you anon.

Have a good day.

>>10633

Thanks anon, I really appreciate it. That picture was made for color practice primarily. I tried to draw the objects correctly, but it was difficult. To draw the cup, I tried to do it by hand so that it would look like the picture, but it did not turn out very well.

Here is the reference photo

>>10635

>finally get around to using the 'colorize mask' tool they just released in 4.0.0

>It's actually really nice to have what's practically a paint bucket that doesn't care that you have such sketchy lines

>see this little pallet in the corner, think 'oh cool, I can change up the colors later if I want them a little darker/lighter'

>nope, just selection, or delete

>If you want to make an area lighter/darker, need to delete that color and redraw over all the areas you want that color

wack

other than that and it not deciding on where it wants to save stuff, I really like this program.

>fundraiser ends

>allows developer to work full time and make more progress than ever!

>not a peep in 2 months now

>>11623

>fundraiser ends

>one of the news updates was something about the team taking a vacation. No, not a break, like literally leaving the country

>>14345

Wow, half a year of waiting for minor improvements. Another feature that literally fucking nobody cares about (windows 10 exclusive color mode for HDR monitors) and 99% of those people won't even be able to tell the difference with is the main highlight.

Brush speed improvement is the only thing worth mentioning, and I can't recall a time when that was a problem to me as opposed to the slowness of large layers themselves.

In usual Krita Quality fashion all of these features are half-solutions and sidegrades. They put the rotation control into the overview docker, but didn't put rotation reset, rotate 90degrees, any kind of zoom buttons, or fix the zoom slider. There's now an useless layer created every time you make or remove a selection that shifts all of your layers down and messes with your muscle memory and awareness of their locations. They did some minor alteration to the text tool but didn't bother to fix anything else about it, not even the fact that the layer still goes in the wrong fucking place when you create it. They put the options from the color slider docker into a dropdown menu requiring you to now click twice to change the mode, and for the sake of what, saving 10 pixels of vertical space? You can configure the location for backup files, but not for autosave files even though the options are literally adjacent to one another. The noise fill function can't generate noise clouds even though it's a trivial addition to a seeded noise generator (literally just generate X layers with different frequencies and then blend the pixels together), the frequency value makes no sense and it also can't generate noise smaller than 4 pixels wide. Some of the highlighted "features" are bugs and missing features that should have been there to begin with. Wow clone tool now has a trivial basic option that it should have had all along! Wow undo now works correctly!

>>14346

I haven't upgraded since they've added animation support to be honest famiglia. That's enough for me and I'm used to it now.

New Krita release, fuckers!

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-2-3-released/

>>14991

>Color slider still not back

When

>8 million years later

>4.3 beta is out

>text tool still remains usable

>the word "text" does not even occur in the entire changelog page

https://krita.org/en/item/first-beta-of-krita-4-3-0-released/

You can checkout /oc/ over at nanochan.

http://nanochanqzaytwlydykbg5nxkgyjxk3zsrctxuoxdmbx5jbh2ydyprid.onion/oc/68.html

I'll share tips and tricks over there.

Wanna create Gifs? I'll record a tutorial today.

Only elite people accepted. No degenerates.

>>16527

RARE

Krita really is great for .gifs

>>16529

I did; if you're into animation I strongly suggest looking into "AMB Animation Academy" stuff. It's easily the best shit on the subject I'm aware of. The only problem is it's pretty informal so it can be a bit hard to follow. I wish the guy would write a book instead of posting unedited videos where he goes off on tangents and argues with his audience on occasion etc. but the material is worth its weight in gold.

>>16567

It's a huge deal.

The Krita splash screen doesn't suck ass anymore. We're slowly recovering.

>>16866

This is the common argument used by FOSS people to justify laziness, bad design decisions and bad software in general. "It's made for free so you can't expect anything", "it's open source so fix it yourself".

Firstly, Krita has ran fundraisers to get money for certain developers to work on it full-time for some periods, continually takes in donations, and often gets contributions from GSoC where people get monetary awards for their work. It's not done for free when someone is receiving money for it.

Secondly, Krita, as described by the official website, is advertised as a professional tool for people in various kinds of artistic fields. When you're telling professional artists to use your shit, there's an expectation of some level of professionality, and the expectation that you don't have to switch your profession to a computer programmer and then familiarize yourself with 7 gigabytes of spaghetti code that has been strung together by ragtag groups of random people and start developing it yourself just to get it to work.

The least you could expect is for them to fix the fucking text tool that is an absolutely core tool in any serious graphics program, but it's as if nobody gives a shit or even plans to ever fix it. How the fuck can you justify leaving it as such a dysfunctional piece of shit for over 2 years now after making promises to make it great? THE LAYER DOESN'T EVEN GO INTO THE CORRECT LOCATION WHEN YOU CREATE IT, that's not even a difficult fucking problem to fix, just go to where the layer is created and make it go to the correct place instead of being pasted into the top of the layer list, that functionality already exists since every other layer goes into the correct place, why hasn't it been fixed for over 2 years? This is absolutely not something you'd expect from a "professional" tool and makes the developers look downright incompetent. I don't even expect the tool to be super fancy like Gimp's, I just want the text to not look like a near-unreadable garbled mess, a new layer to be created when I create a new text box, not having to manually move the layer into where I was every time I type text, an actual text box that the text gets wrapped into, and the font/size/etc to not reset after every text box. If you really want to go all out then add an option to put the text editor into the tool docker instead of a popup that makes the entire program window a pain in the ass to interact with. As a developer myself I think these are not a high expectations in any way, the only problem that's remotely complicated is making the text look good, it's the only thing I could justify excuses for since they probably used some premade SVG text rendering system and don't know how to control it, can't find anything better, and maybe don't even see a problem with because it's utilizing some operating system functionality (common mistake in text systems) that changes from system to system.

I'm not complaining because some fancy feature from Photoshop isn't there, I'm complaining because the program is full of broken shit in the most basic and fundamental parts of it and all of it is very simple stuff that I cannot imagine being complicated to fix, like the way merging a yellow layer with a yellow layer results in an uncolored layer. You're already copying properties to the new layer, why not copy the color as well? You cannot come up with any justifiable reason for why this is still broken.