On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, David Neary wrote:

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:35:53 +0200 From: David Neary
To: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: [Gimp-developer] Krita news

Hi,

So since planet.gnome.org was down, I went over to planetkde.org to see what was happening over there, and I saw this blog entry: http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/hacking/krita/16bits.html

"Yesterday, Krita reached a major milestone. We can now load, manipulate and save rgba images with 16 bits to the channel."

I thought that might interest some of you - we're not the only game in town anymore, I think.

http://www.koffice.org/krita/
It is worth mentioning that Krita is intended for Painting, more along the lines of Corel Painter and their stated interest is in creating new images with realstic painting effects, more so than Image Manipulation although there will be overlap.

Krita uses ImageMagick to allow it to support more file formats, in particularly the GIMP native XCF. There may be opportunities for both projects to help each other by sharing resources like brushes, gradients and patterns at least or maybe more.

I think the true strength of Krita will be tight integration with the rest of the KOffice suite, particularly the Karbon 14 Drawing application. A suite makes it easier to simply take it all and that gives added momentum.

Although Krita, formerly Krayon, formerly KImageshop has been around for many years it has not been actively developed all that time and the maintainer describes it as still a young app with lots of work to do.

I've really been wanting to give Krita try but I've had troubles getting it to build.

Certainly worth keeping an eye on.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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