GIMP vs Krita (The pros and cons) 

How do you use GIMP and or Krita an what are your favorite features?

Hey, at least GIMP tells you where to get the functionality you need. In my experience, GIMP excels at image editing, Krita excels at image creation. Put them together and you have a dandy replacement for Photoshop.

Krita is a real powerhouse. I remember first seeing Krita when it was still in alpha and beta; I was hesitant to use it back then because I didn't want to learn a program that wasn't "settled" on everything yet (if you get what I mean). Needless to say, I've been drawing with it now for the past few months (yes I'm an artist) and I'm super impressed by it. I'm actually kinda shocked by how competent Krita is as an alternative to PhotoShop.

I think krita has a smudge tool, but it's in the brush section, rather than being its own tool in the left panel

I used to bash on Gimp, but i have to admit... by ver 2.8 it really improved with the single window mode... but by 2.10 the added features and posibilities really made the experience really nice, as nice as to compete for real with photoshop (at least for me as a non pofesional -but enthusiast- photographer). On the "flaws" you mentioned: - The lack of native Raw threatment it is not a problem to be honest, since i do work with Rawtherapee (ver 5.5) that it is also free (GPLv3) soft. And RT combined with my Gimp (2.10.10) allows me to reveal extensive work with RT and then pick the best images and edit them with Gimp... but if i'd like to, i could just open the Raw with Gimp and then the Rawtherapee plugin would open the file, let me adjust some parameters and then reveal it to Gimp... so no downsize there at least for me. - The gradient tool... well i have to take your word on it since on my pictures the Vigneting effect or correction is performed with RawTherapee, since in the Raw format i can extract the most out of the image, i'm pretty shure that's a tool i want to use Before moving to Gimp... furthermore it is a really easy aspect to change on a picture so i won't take me much time even if i'm working with a lot of pictures. Most Gimp effects used to be of a mediocre quality back in the day... i haven't noticed that since some time ago (2.8 and later) but again... i will take your word on this subject. - Layout: Gimp is my first image edition tool... i've tried to learn photoshop before getting into photography and i was never able to learn how to use it... but Gimp was kind of easier to learn at least for me. With time i also learned that you can pretty much customize the layout the way you want it, and there's Photogimp and Gimpshop in order to make the Gimp more "photoshop clone". Why keep using Gimp? well, mainly 2 reasons: 1) As a Photographer, i do not find the need for other soft. I know that from different jobs you might hit different needs. Gimp has been here forever, and there are lots of online tutorials and manuals on how to do just about everything, both in spanish (my native lang.) and english 2) I do know for a fact that Gimp will keep improving, maybe not that much on every revision (from x.x.1 to x.x.2) but you can expect very good improvements every once in a while... maybe 10 revisions or even an entire version number (x.2.x to x.4.x). The larger community means more donations/income and therefore more juice to improve the software. BTW if you use any free software (or open source) as a photographer, being Gimp, Krita, RawTherapee, Darktable or any other, and you make money or take any profit of your activity... please please donate a fraction of your income to the developers of that soft... soft is as much of a tool as a camera body, and by supporting the free soft they can update the soft more and more to meet new standars, correct bugs, improve stuffs and more. 1-2 american dollars per year per soft (that might imply 5/10 bucks a year) should be reasonable for anybody

Based on your needs, what you need isn't Gimp or Krita but Adobe White Room or Dark Table, a free alternative. A Raster image editor like Gimp is needed for more in-depth image manipulation that goes beyond the scope of a RAW image editor like Dark Table.

Great video, you found some amazing details that I was not aware of. Personally, I use both Krita and Gimp, I mostly use Gimp when editing photos and need to do some precise work. But I find Krita to be better for drawing and graphic design. Keep up the good work!

4:45 "No one is coming into this cold." hahaha I'm actually looking for a free photography designer app and I've never studied, worked, or learned anything about graphics design before. I'm coming into this 100% cold, I clicked on the video because krita & gimp were everyones top picks for photoshop alternatives, I'm still doing research before I decide which one I want. Just wanted it to be known that newbies exist and are confused as all heck about which software to use.

I got both, Krita is a lot easier to drawn in tablet screen, but GIMP seems to have a lot options about editing and filter. Going to learn both.

Wow! I'm a long-time GIMP user and I always thought of Krita as only a digital-painting type of tool. Never thought of exploring it for image editing! Thanks for the video.

Just a word of encouragement here. I'm trying to wean myself off that mud-slinging company's product. I'm mostly happy with the Lightroom alternatives in Linux. Gimp has some frustrations as a long-time PS user. I tried Krita last night for the first time, and was impressed. I need to learn more. about both Gimp and Krita. Thanks!

If you just want a saturation slider in Krita why use Cross channel adjustment curves and not the saturation slider in Filter>Adjust>HSV adjustment?

great vid, but I was looking for the digital side of art here

It's been years since I've used Gimp, but I'm thinking of getting back into it. As for Krita, I used it for a few months and to me it was annoying to learn especially since I'm really used to Photoshop, with that said, Krita is alright. I'm not a huge fan due to the interface and trying to find certain functions in it, but it does have just about everything you would need.

Was choosing wether to download gimp or keep useing krita to make gun skins a game I play as a new hobby thanks for the vid and the info

Why would you choose? Use both and you will end up a combo witch is quite good replacement for photoshop. ;)

Just found your channel, very nice video mate. Been deep diving into gimp this past week and have fallen in love with it. However it needed a lot of massaging to get it to where I wanted it to be but I now love it. Have the keyboard shortcuts and layout to mimic PS etc. However like you I am bummed about not being able to open RAF files (Fuji raw) out of the box. I found your video when I was searching Krita. Guess now I am really interested in trying it out. Cheers

I tend to use them in tandem.

I use Linux, I did the gradient test here in Gimp and it was not bad as in the video. Another thing, I don't know if it's available for Windows, but on Linux you can use Darktable as a Gimp Plugin, if you don't know yet search for it. If you want to try Linux someday, I suggest Deepin.

I actually like how GIMP doesn't have a raw converteer by default, because you can use the one you prefer. If you wanted one built in though, you can use partha's builds at partha.com, they have nut NUFRaw built in as a raw converter, and can also use others, plus it includes the very funand useful G'MIC plugin,and it also integrates with the Nik plugins and some panorama stitching software if you want use those. There are builds there for windows, Linux, and Apple. I usually use these builds, not because the raw converter is built in, but just because I like the way they're built and configured out of the box, I find it more user friendly, to me anyway, than plain GIMP.

In Krita smudge is a set of different smudge/blur tools in the brush section.

GIMP is a GNU software. Probably this Nikon RAW file has proprietaries stuff inside. So GIMP cant have it embedded, you need to install externally.

I am watching this, and right in the first 5min I realized that you didn't even bother to learn how to use Gimp.

The earlier versions has a lot of bugs. But it's developing to become more powerful than Adobe Photoshop.

In krita you don't have smudge tool and clone tool, but have corresponding brush engines. Yes, it is very counterintuitive when you are used to software like photoshop or gimp. You don't have the saturation adjustement filter alone, but you can use the HSV adjustement filter. The cross channel adjustement filter is for a complete different purpose and allow to control the increase or decrease of a channel based on another channel (by default saturation from luminosity). It is rather complicated to use, but very powerfull. The curve adustement filter is also very powerfull once you notice that, in krita, it can also control hue, saturation or lightness. By the way, in krita, you have a n-point perspective option in the transform tool, and if you press controll with the free-transform option enabled you would rotate your image in 3d. Yet again, I thing the tool option docker is hidden by default, which is not the user-friendlist way of laying out things for photographers, who would use tools options a lot. But krita is a tool mainly for illustrators and I have to admit, as an illustrator myself, that I hardly ever use a different tool than the painting brush.

I tried using krita for painting textures for CG models, but no matter what I was getting banding when exporting. Even switching the bit depth to 32 bit float and exporting as an EXR didnt fix it. Gimp worked with no issue, but it sucks because I feel like krita is more photoshop like, with the ability to use adjustment layers.

The gradient gives banding artifacts because of colour depth processing by gimp, which is bad.

nice vid. but only 480p? come on

i only use krita for painting my big complaint with gimp is its window system causes issues with input losing focus, and it does not like both mouse and tablet being plugged in together

Lol, maybe change Gradient in GIMP to Shape Radial and Mode to Overlay, decrease opacity or draw more grayish, then there isn't such a hard line... For me the toolplaces in GIMP out of the box are just right, its terrible to have it spread out all over the side. Plugins are what makes GIMP great, so you are supposed to install them for having the most powerful program, and then it does all the things you missed in comparison to Krita. I don't know about Krita's plugin possibilities, but can you then also achieve what GIMP is capable of? Some aspects are implemented better in one, some in the other program, but with GIMP you have more features.

Thanks a lot for the video. Great channel. Subscribed.

I found weird that Krita does not have a clone tool, or maybe its hidden or maybe they already added on update, for practical reasons I prefer to stick to one program. Maybe in the future I will go back to Krita. Why PhotoShop is ridiculously heavy!?

I think you haven't really looked into Gimp. But maybe you have by now? It's been two years

Photoshop also needs Adobe Camera Raw to open RAW files.

who the hell uploads a screen cast at 480p. Fail.

Too hard to see anything in your video. Need to re-upload as 1080p. Ironic for a photographer's channel. Good content, though.

Personally I think Gimp is more candidate to be a free photoshop alternative , unfortunately Gimp developers are lazy or not focusing on making it what we want, they do the minimum just to keep it alive, I dont know why , may be Adobe messed with them.

Let's say that both Photoshop and GIMP is a little bit complicated to me, I find Krita more friendly. So I go with Krita.

As a complete amateur that has only used gimp for some memes and fooling around, I only have one question? Why use different pictures for the tools? Doesn't the type of image can affect how tools like gradients work?

How does Krita work on lower end hardware?

When it comes to RAW, GIMP relies on 3rd party software to work with the format. Why would they want to reinvent the wheel, when there are tools already available? Most of GIMP users don't even work with RAW images, so why would they bundle a bunch of bloat with it? I see you use Windows. Well, GIMP comes from the world of the Unix philosophy. If you don't know what it is, then look it up. As a Windows user, you might be confused by the term "3rd party". In Windows, the standard base system and all the essential tools are made by Microsoft. Then you want to work with photos/images and you expect it's all made by the same company, for example Adobe. In free software, "3rd party" means something completely different. In Linux and other Unix-like systems (and free software in general), you have a kernel from one project, basic shell tools from another project, a desktop environment from another project, a window manager from another project, a file manager from yet another project and everything works together. GIMP is just one piece of the puzzle.

Thank you keep going

gimp is old and ugly and non organised and krita is the best replacement of photoshop even for graphic designers , lot of shortcuts and features are exact same as photoshop and even look is also they just don't want legal case by photoshop so they made them self a drawing software.. krita is the software i was looking for.. love it i will definitely donate them in future..

hola tengo un problema en Krita pasa que cuando hice un dibujo mas grande que el lienzo, y lo fui moviendo hacia el canvas con la herramientra que parece una cruz de flechas, en la parte gris me aparece como copiado el dibujo, a medida que lo voy arrastrando, mas veces queda calcado todo en una misma capa, es un bug?

Gimp's gradient tool can be adjusted, to give the exact effect and fade in you want. If you had adjusted the points on the gradient line, you would have gotten the exact fade you wanted.There is also a Vinette tool you can use/ It is all about getting more familiar with Gimp. I think If you do, you will enjoy it as a Photographer. For Raw support, Gimp supports Raw Therapee and Dark table. Either program can work along side Gimp and be launched from within Gimp. Dark Table is easier to use I have heard. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R0Sk755osjg.html

Both the programs requires gpu preview....

I used to use both programs back then but I can't use it the way I want as what my experience told me that the programs aren't for me as an artist. Anyway, I enjoy your video too plus it is interesting to see art program reviews in the perspective of other professions as well.

I'm useing both

Gimp do not work with any raw files, not just with NEF.

I have been searching all night about which app I would use because I have krita and it was really cool to use at first, but then it started to lag, the colours were inverted, and many other issues. The main problem for me is that I can never find any help on how to fix these issues. Now I'm just trying to see if I should just try to figure things out with krita or get a new app?

What about non destructive editing?

you have to create a new project to draw

2:10 "RAW is a standard" As much as a deluge of incompatible formats defined by lack of standardization can be considered a "standard". Almost as funny to hear as "PAQ is a standard" used to be 🤣 Good fun. Take no grief. I get what you mean.

How do you feel about Affinity?

I used krita to open a raw file. There was a ton of settings I did not understand to open the raw file. When I did opened the raw file the picture looked fuzzy. Did I do something wrong?

I want an Arabic translation You're cute, darling. Thank you

What software do you use for printing? since krita can’t do Print.

Just Tries Gimp 1st / Had to RU-vid - Where is Tool Panel 2nd / Couldn't find how to easily flip part of an image i had copied from the main image IT IS RUBBISH

I recently found out that gnome is getting sued by a patent troll. Everybody is now scared that eventually every open source program will get sued.

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