GIMP - Truth be told, I don't like GIMP very much. What I know so far is that it's built with artists in mind (unlike most free software) and is highly customizable. I don't do a lot of painting so I haven't used Krita very much, and I haven't yet actually watched any tutorials or anything so I've barely scratched the surface of what Krita is really like. It's better to use Krita for painting and leave the pixels to a different program. It's pretty useless for pixel art though, there is a way to use Krita to get pixel perfect results, but it's not designed for it at all so it's a bit like swimming upstream. It also has more random crashes than I care for, so save very often. It's really quite powerful and has this canvas wrap feature that I adore. It's set up a lot like Blender, free, and open to outside developers, but they run kickstarters and sell tutorial materials to pay for development costs. Krita - Krita is to Painter what GIMP is to Photoshop. No online backup, no record of my purchase, no key, can't find the CD, I'm just out of luck on that one. That makes me feel a little more secure, especially since I lost some very expensive software when I lost my last computer. With this setup I can do everything I need with completely free software.

For me, I'm sad to lose my workflow but it's worth it to me. It's a completely fair trade off, in my opinion neither one has an advantage over the other, they're just different. In some ways that's good, those programs are more powerful at that one thing because of the specialization, but in other ways it's not as good because of the fragmented workflow and need to have multiple programs to do one project. I've found that because of the lack of Photoshop I've been using more specialized programs. Kind of force myself to finally learn how to properly use GIMP. I decided to be brave and just ditch Photoshop altogether and see how long I can last. I wonder how many people have actually bought the program then just used the pirated version so they didn't have to deal with that? I did on my last computer.įor this one, though, I decided to do something a little different. Plus I have a new computer and installing a legitimate copy of Photoshop on anything is a hassle. Add to that the surprisingly bad integration of tablet usage when compared to just about any other art program and I just felt like they weren't the type of company I wanted to support.

Adobe has a mindset about their software that I'm not fond of, a focus on large businesses while excluding the real needs of the individual consumer that I think has caused so much of the rampant pirating I've seen. There's no big reason for it, I own a legal copy of Photoshop CS2, and nothing big has happened to make me hate them, I just wanted to be done. I've been focusing on cutting my dependance on all things Adobe lately.

Krita vs photoshop 2016