Krita Kickstarter 2015 is running now!
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Lowdown: 20.000 euro for performance and animation is the goal.
Every extra 1500 euro fits a stretchgoal. Every back who donated more than 15 euro can vote on which stretch goal gets in.
Kickstarter is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot
If you've never used Krita, feel free to come and try it: https://krita.org/
Krita is a free open source painting program, that has extensive colour management support, with both the famous need for CMYK covered, as well as supporting floating point and HDR painting.
Other than that we have an awesome set of brush-engines, a very versatile layer-stack that supports non-destructive operations in the shape of filter-layers, transparency masks and transform masks.
And in a few days 2.9.4 will be released, which holds the first version of layer style support.
Also, we have wraparound mode.
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Anyway, please support us and spread the word!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPwY7fTSq-0[/ame]Lowdown: 20.000 euro for performance and animation is the goal.
Every extra 1500 euro fits a stretchgoal. Every back who donated more than 15 euro can vote on which stretch goal gets in.
Kickstarter is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot
If you've never used Krita, feel free to come and try it: https://krita.org/
Krita is a free open source painting program, that has extensive colour management support, with both the famous need for CMYK covered, as well as supporting floating point and HDR painting.
Other than that we have an awesome set of brush-engines, a very versatile layer-stack that supports non-destructive operations in the shape of filter-layers, transparency masks and transform masks.
And in a few days 2.9.4 will be released, which holds the first version of layer style support.
Also, we have wraparound mode.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICGks0-InQ[/ame]Anyway, please support us and spread the word!
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"Make Krita really fast on big canvases with big brushes"
1.Is this the sole goal of the performance improvement process or will you work on performance with say multiple layers, filters etc?
2.Will you be working on improving the performance and general experience on Windows as at least a 'subtask' of the general optimization process?
I'm really looking at Krita as a replacement of Photoshop for texturing or rather something of a texture assembly program as texturing can be offloaded to Substance Designer or other app nowadays.
This means primarily you'll see faster strokes, but other things that can be computed on the preview will benefit too, like for example filter-previews.
There's also a bug with using tablets with filter-layers(mouse movement+filter layers has a normal speed) that I am going to look into personally as part of my GSoC.
EDIT: More tech-talk here: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/krita-launches-second-kickstarter-campaign-to-fund-development
No, we're already doing that for free.
We're also trying to figure out how to improve our windows build process, because then we can teach that to people and also let them profile on windows, which gives the most accurate and informative results when you build yourself.
The issue is not so much that we're short on manpower or money as much as that there's so many configurations for windows that we're somewhat in the dark on why certain devices have so many issues with Krita.
Yes, I figured that's the primary need of many polycounters, hence why I showed off the wrap around mode.
2.9.4 definitely starts faster.
Krita makes a good external editor to link directly up to 3D Coat as well, which treats it in the usual GoZ (zbrush) fashion.
For creating good tilable textures from photos, would really love to see some advancements in something similar to the PS heal brush.
I think we already have that... We have a seperate clone brush engine, where there's a tick box called 'heal'. https://userbase.kde.org/Krita/Manual/BrushEngines/CloneBrush
I never used those types of tools much(being a painter primarily) so it hadn't occured to me to put it in the spotlight
Good stuff, I could never find it in Krita. Looks like its actually a brush rather than a mode. Throws you off a bit. I'll have to play around with that a bit more, might be worth looking at potentially stream lining that particular process into a option into the tool panel to the left as well.
Well, the nice thing about having it this way is that you can just straight away make a preset out of it.
Similarly with the filter brush
Getting it into the tool options or the like is a bit of a usability problem we're thinking really hard about how to solve, because you need to identify which elements are important, how to order them for the right amount of hit-area as well as presenting them to the user logically. It's something we want to design carefully to make sure everything's consistent and the user won't be confused by it.
That said, you will lessen our burden by donating and making sure we have enough money to spend more time developing and less time worrying
https://krita.org/item/krita-2-9-4-released/
Krita 2.9.4 is released, which holds both the first version of layerstyles(under the topmenu layer)(no psd loading and saving yet) and huge speedup in terms of loading the program as well as huge speed-ups in layer handling(mostly with transformation masks).
So if there's a version of Krita you'd want to try out, it's this one
gonna put some money too!
We've passed 50% yesterday and hope to reach 12000 today!
That said, let me demonstrate you a feature of 2.9 that hadn't been demonstrated much:
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(Video has english subtitles for those who prefer that!)
Text version+ example file is here:
https://krita.org/item/using-the-transform-masks/
You can file them at bugs.kde.org. You will need to make an account so we can sent you an e-mail when there's updates. You can, after having made an account, either file the bug manually under the Krita product, or go in Krita to help->report bug, and then you get sent to the bug report form for Krita, with 'OSX' and version filled in.
If you'd like to check other bugreports first, go here: https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=krita
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what - check existing bugs first? who does that? just enter them as class A and keep updating those tickets so they don't vanish in the pile.
thanks! now about let me see about that kickstarter...
The reasons are as follows:
1. We'd need to write a dependency graph, which is very difficult. The kickstarter would require at the least double the amount we're asking for now, without any stretch-goals.
2. There's beyond plenty of applications out there that can do bone animation on bitmaps, but when it comes to pure frame-by-frame raster animation you can count them on one hand.
Krita is focussing on raster animation, and doing that RIGHT instead of doing a poor job at things like bones, which so many other applications do right.
Transformation masks however will be animatable.
Edit: Thanks you thomasp!
EDIT 2: Dataday, I had a good long talk with someone who has a lot of experience with sprite animation and is familiar with Spriter and Spine, and he agreed with me that 1. it's out of scope. And he also added that both Spriter and Spine needed to develop a lot of plugins to work with game engines internally. We just don't have the manpower to deliver that kind of support.
Wondering if a new release of Krita already has gamut masking/ tone locking palette feature. Or is that still on the wishlist.
I already implemented the HSI/HSY' colour selector in the advanced colour selector for a good array of colour selectors to do this on. You can somewhat simulate it by picking three colours, and mixing the gamut with those, but it's a bit tedious and we have computers to solve tedious things for us, right?
What is however going to be in soon is PS pass-through mode as well as lighter and darker color. We were doing this related to layer-styles, but are in general investigating how much of PSD support we could get done if we put our mind to it coming month.
We already added in new cursors in this mini update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot/posts/1226509
Okay, so this is what you do:
1. Go to the layer docker.
2. Click on the lower-left button. This should bring up a list of all palettes.
3. In the little form underneath write down the name of the palette you wish to create.
4. Choose the amount of columns
5. Hit create
6. Now search for the name of your newly created palette in the list.
7. Select it.
8. It will be empty, but you can use the green plus button to add you active colour to it.
9. You can also use the colour picker tool to quickly add a bunch of colours to the palette at once. Check the tool options docker for more information.
EDIT: Sorry, I thought you were talking about creating palettes. No, you can just use the palette docker, and if you open the palette library, press the blue folder icon to import a palette. /feels dumb now.
Still 16 days to go, but thank you to everyone who helped us get there!
So, now we'll be going for the stretchgoals, which can be voted on if you contributed 15 euro or more. And each 1500 euro will be a stretchgoal! So if 100 people donate 15 euro, or 20 people donate 75, or 10 people donate 150, or 5 people donate 300, or 2 people donate 750, we're at the next stretchgoal. If you donate 1500 euro, you just get a veto vote.
Anyway, that makes the first stretchgoal to be at 21.500 euro. Spread the word!
In other news, we've got our first implementation of PSD layerstyle saving done, as well as passthrough functionality and PSD group loading and saving, so if you build you can start testing already. Builds are coming a little later because we found a huge slowdown in localised copies of Krita that we really really want to fix.
https://krita.org/item/second-stretchgoal-reached-and-new-builds/
A ton of PSD support in this one, including layerstyle saving and loading.
Also the return of the autosave recovery wizard on windows. Webp support, etc. etc.
We're at two stretchgoals, thanks to both the kickstarter backers as well as the recently opened paypal donations(which'll count towards the stretchgoals as long as we're past our goal):
https://krita.org/2015-kickstarter/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot/posts/1249656
Up till now we have enough for 7 stretchgoals, which can be voted on by everyone who pledged 15 euro or more! Don't miss your chance if you want to vote too!
https://krita.org/item/krita-2-9-5-1-and-bug-week/
In this release: Memory management panel, new assistants, improved curves filter, huge speed-up on filter layers and a ton of bug fixes!
Also, we'll be focussing on cleaning up Krita before the stretchgoal voting is finalised on the 6th of July, so don't forget to vote before then!
Final votes are in: https://krita.org/item/the-votes-are-in-2/
We'll be doing the 11 features in the first table for 3.1.
This concludes the kickstarter news, so here's my question: Would you want me to update this thread continuously, or just make a new thread once the kickstarter features start rolling in?
In the meantime, Krita 2.9.6 was released, which is a release full of bugfixes and usability features, including selection modifiers: https://krita.org/item/krita-2-9-6-released/
Another thing that got in is continued transforms, which'll allow you to continue your transform after applying it, if applying was your last action:
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