Target Users for Krita

Casper Boemann cbr at boemann.dk
Thu Jul 20 21:04:33 CEST 2006


Hi

On request from Thomas I've written down a list of target users for Krita. The 
attached list is what I've always had in mind, but as Thomas suggested it 
might be stupid of me to assume that we agree when nothing has really been 
written down.

So here goes.

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best regards / venlig hilsen
Casper Boemann
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Target Users for Krita

Krita is described as a painting and image editing application. But what does that entail and who is our targeted userbase. It's important to note that Krita intends to be both a painting and image editing application. Though both are graphically advanced fields there are also some fundemental differences. However there is a somewhat floating transition from one field to the other.

But Krita is not for simple doodling. The output is creative bitmapped graphics, be it photos, collages, cartoon like paintings, abstract art or any other thing along those lines. The assumption is that our target user will use Krita for serious graphics work and thus knows a lot about the graphic job at hand.

Their computer skills might be as diverse as KDE users in general.

With that said this is a list of personas:

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Amateur photographer

Arthur is a young man from England who has invested in a good digital camera which he uses to take good scenic photos which he takes home looks through and maybe only saves 2 out of 10, because the rest is not good enough. He feels he has a creative senese for taking good photos and uses Krita to do some filtering and general touchup.

He could just as well have used digikam or other similar application but likes the abillity to do just a little more if he feels like it, which he sometimes do. He puts thumbnails up on his webpages and sells prints to interested buyers. Mostly for fun since he rarely sells more than a dozen a year. He does know that colormanagement is important for making good prints, and is able to see when the colors look like he want it.

He owns a normal LCD monitor and hasn't done any profiling of it

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Professional photo retoucher

Ben is a 35 year old man who does freelance photo retouching for ads in womens style magazines. He is based in New York. Photographers come in with their shots and he uses Krita to smooth the skin of models, removing imperfections, make theirs eyes more white, etc. Even changes their body contour or otherwise alter the image, to get just the image that will sell the product.

WYSIWYG is very important for him so he has a very expensive monitor that he gets profiled every month. He also owns a tablet which he uses because using a mouse for those fine details is just not good enoug for him. The office he is working in has been specialy designed with respect to lightning to produce the most realistic viewing experience as possible.

Ben has taken a 4 year education in graphical design and worked with graphics for almost 12 years, mostly with Photoshop, but was convinced of the power of Krita through a friend.

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Original artwork creator

Claire is a 27 year old woman from San Francisco who has a job producing original artwork. She is employed by a special effects movie studio where she draws artistic backgrounds, textures for 3d models and almost everything in between. She has been very skilled at painting/drawing since as long as she can remember, but have not had any formal graphical education

The movie studio uses Linux for most of it's 3d rendring as has chosen to also use Linux and KDE for the rest of their production line. Claire doesn't mind much as she hadn't really used a computer before taking this job 5 years ago. She does like using computers now though.

She has a big widescreen monitor and a tablet to draw with. The company require all drawings to be in very high definition and that the result looks great on big movie screens.

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