Krita Stability?

[Sven Langkamp]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Warren Baird <photogeekmtl at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:04 PM, LukasT.dev at gmail.com <lukast.dev at gmail.com
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>> Why do you want to move away from GIMP?
>> What are your use cases? How do you use GIMP and what do you expect from
>> Krita?
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> The main reason functionally is to get higher bpp.   My use cases are
> generally around blending 3 or 4 high resolution (21 mp) images and then
> overlaying 3 or 4 other masked images into the mix.   You can see examples
> of my artwork at  http://www.synergisticimages.ca - I generally bring in 3
> or 4 images layers, mess about with the blending modes - I usually end up
> using 'soft light' or 'hard light', I then mess about with transparency and
> image layering a lot, and then start bringing in other images.
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> The base images are RAW images mostly from either a Canan 350D or a 5D mrk
> ii - so 12 or 14 bit per channel.  Currently I'm converting them to jpegs in
> aperture and working on the jpegs in gimp.
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> I'd love to just be able to load the raw images into krita as a 16bit per
> channel image, and do all my blendings at a higher bit depth.
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> Of course that means I'll need to find a way to print higher bit depth
> images, but I'll worry about that later.
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> I also spend a fair bit of time in the gimp separating people and objects
> from their backgrounds - but frankly I could continue doing that in the
> gimp, save out a png and bring that into krita - bit depth is less important
> there...
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> Bonus points for an app that is native mac os x and doesn't need X11.
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> Warren
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There is a native mac os x version, although I'm not sure if that is
packaged.

Krita currently isn't ready to manage such an amout of data yet. There is
work in progress to further improve on that, but it will take a bit to be
available.
For now I wouldn't recommend to use Krita in this megapixel/gigabyte range.
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