Going the wrong way?

[m0ns00n]

Hey!

I really like many of Kritas features, but have you guys stopped and thought 
for a moment that persuing PhotoShop and Paintshop Pro as the ideal paint 
program is a bit premature? There are other examples which in my opinion are 
much better as paint apps:

 * TVPaint / Aura
 * DPaint / GRFX2 / Brilliance (the roots of many paint apps)
 * Painter
 * Mirage

Also, making gfx is hard when one has to use a huge interface with several 
mouse click just to change tool and settings. I use lighten/darken alot and I 
don't see why I need to use a dark and light color as foreground/background 
to get an effect. Isn't the opacity setting enough to set the emphasis? And I 
use alot of pixel techniques. Why can't I use a 1x1 pixel brush with guassian 
blur? That's been possible with ancient paint apps for ever, but new apps 
seemingly can't do it (photoshop, gimp...). 
And where's animation support? It's so basic to implement, just like layers, 
only horizontally. Onionskin wouldn't be harder than layer transparancy. 
Think outside Gimp and PSD! =)

One of the reasons many people hate and loathe Gimp is the huge interface that 
gets in your way, you should think a bit about this when making the interface 
of Krita ;-)

Other than that, I am having great hopes about this project. Finally something 
that at least aims to be more than an image processor!

Hogne