Hi there! I'm am so sorry for the delay! I was busy helping this cool guy (<a href="http://rd3d.com/dtools/">http://rd3d.com/dtools/</a>) port his tools for Linux and I only have so much free time. :) again, sorry.<div>
<br></div><div>It is still quite hard to get people adopting a tool they've never used before but for those in the company who are making the effort to launch Krita instead of Gimp or Photoshop and in some instances Nuke or Mari, the general consensus is that it's a great tool. The UI being so 'familiar' is a great sale for us. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Initially I've mostly had 'surface level' feedback as people are not pushing it to its limits yet. Mainly the UI seems to hang a little a behave a little erratically at times when using the wacom. It's really hard to pinpoint exactly what gives it this strange feeling. My opinion is that it comes from dialogs flicking open in the wrong initial position when you first open a palette for example. </div>
<div><br></div><div>To replicate:</div><div><br></div><div>-Open Krita</div><div>-Create any kind of project</div><div>-now click any of the buttons on the top bar. ie: "edit brush settings" or "chose brush preset" or the color or gradients buttons.</div>
<div>-You will notice that, the first time you click any of those, a 'ghost' window appears briefly (~0.2 second) and then the actual palette opens. This only occurs once. Afterwards everything is fine. </div><div>
<br></div><div>It's not a big deal, but it is a little jarring and may be one of those things that give a subconscious 'impression' of instability. </div><div><br></div><div>Also drag and drop may get a bit annoying with a wacom when selecting layers. It seems that layers get 'grabbed' quite quickly when you're simply trying to select it or activate it. Maybe a grab 'handle' to the right of the layer could help with this?</div>
<div><br></div><div>We have been getting crashes here and there as well, but the artists seem to have a hard time reporting things. instead they just move on with their task using something else. It's an age old problem so I'm going to try and see what I can do about that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also I think performance is really strange at work compared to my home machine. At high bit depths Krita seems to struggle on my work machine, however on my home machine it's a real pleasure to work with. I need to investigate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've also been getting a couple of small UI requests that have popped up a couple of times. </div><div><br></div><div>Tabs for different canvases instead of a whole new Krita UI from every image. I also have to say I totally agree with that. It makes working on 10 different images or frames at the same time mush more manageable. Gimp and Photoshop seem to have implemented this and I have to say that it's quite great. My apologies if something like this is already being made or if it's already in krita but I have not found the option.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A 'navigator' window like Photoshop and gimp. That top right thumbnail with the zoom and the crop section. I know it seems a bit useless, but most people don't know the navigation shortcuts for Krita initially, so a little navigator would help a bit. It's one of those legacy habits that Photoshop has burnt in all of our feeble minds I guess. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the messy email. If you want clarification on any of this please let me know. Also, please know that none of this is really pressing. We are slowly picking it up and management is supporting the move. But it takes time. People are not 'dabbing' around over there, we're under some pretty tight deadlines and heavy pressure to do shots, so sometimes, even though we'd like too, we just can't afford to take the risk to use something that we are not 100% familiar with. However as time goes on, people start realising what Krita can offer to help, whether it is from me suggesting it to someone or the artists willingly opening it up during a few days of quite time, it's slowly catching on. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you again to everyone involved in Krita for this great project!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Sven Langkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven.langkamp@gmail.com" target="_blank">sven.langkamp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Simon Legrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:legrand.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">legrand.simon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Last Friday I ran a Krita demo at Digital Domain London which went amazingly well. <br>The feedback
from the artists was along the lines of: "Wow. I didn't realise it was
going to be THAT good". <br>
It is possible that ourselves (DD london) and many others will be moving to centos6
in the near future. Autodesk is providing support for Maya 2013 only for
Centos6 and redhat6 and up now. So if we make sure the latest and greatest Krita is in the
centos6 repos, it will be super easy for sys-admins to get it installed. Those are KDE4 distros so I think life will be easier.<br><br>The main questions I got from texture artists, matte painters and compers were as follows:<br>
<br>Q-Can we toggle the LUT display? <br>A- Yes in the preferences. (I put in a request on this list today to make it a dockable tool)<br><br>Q- Are there any automatic HDRI panorama creation tools<br>A- No, there are other applications for this. (However the Krita project might be able to leverage other open source projects to implement something like this. <a href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://hugin.sourceforge.net/</a> )<br>
<br>Q- Does Krita have a scripting language, command line interface or python api?<br>A- I replied that I was not sure. I knew Krita had a scripting feature in previous version but I cannot find it in 2.4. Actions are supported so that can replace (partly) this function. I was not sure about any sort of python api or anything like this. So I replied that I was going to ask you guys.<br>
<br>Q- Does Krita support 3rd party filter/plugin formats?<br>A- I don't know. I will ask the team what kind of filter format Krita supports.<br><br>Q- Does Krita do 3D painting?<br>A- No. Krita is not made to replace Mari. It is mainly a photoshop replacement on Linux to fill the '2D painting' gap our industry has been suffering from for years. <br>
<br>Q- Is there an automatic texture tiling tool similar to <a href="http://gimp-texturize.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">gimp's texturize</a>?<br>A- Not that I know of, I will ask the Krita team.<br><br>Q- Can Krita import frame sequences?<br>
A- Not right now. It could be an interesting Option to add. I will talk to the team about it.<br><br>All of our Artists and TDs were very impressed. They would like to say a big thank you to the Krita team for moving in to this territory and have pledged to help you trouble-shoot, improve and push Krita forward with useful feedback and bug reports, all of which will be going through myself. <br>
</blockquote></div></div></div><br>Has been quite some time since the demo. I haven't heard any feedback so far. How it did work out?<br>
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