Whither Krita?

[Matthew Woehlke]

LukasT.dev at gmail.com wrote:
> Anyway so far we are trying to be [Gimp+MyPaint] and I think it is good way 
> but we need more developers :( I like the way to be [Gimp+MyPaint] for KDE.
> Developers will not come in the first hardest part of the development when 
> things crashes etc..

For me, that's not the problem, it's lack of time (or else I would 
likely work on Krita at least some). If anyone has any brilliant ideas 
how to be /paid/ to work on Free graphics programs... ;-).

> Also Vera seems to be promising these days.

What is Vera? (Besides a word that is too common to Google effectively...)

> I would like to use Krita for web-development and photo editing in future also.

I could use an HDR process program. Right now I use rawstudio for raw 
processing, and have no functional multi-image HDR process. (So far I 
haven't seen satisfactory results from any of qtpfsgui's mapping modes; 
what I think I really need is rather to be able to composite multiple 
tone-mapped raws.) I looked at cinepaint for this but it was buggy (and 
doesn't import raw directly). IOW, see [1] and [2].

I'd also like to see generators take off in a big way ([3]). Yeah, I 
know, I seem to be the only one interested (I suppose noise never became 
a generator, and even solid does not seem to work... well, at all :-( ) 
and I don't really have big enough blocks of time to sit down and much 
with them.

And I am interested in natural media painting. Yes I know, opposite ends 
of the spectrum :-).

1: http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/Direct_RAW_Editing
2: http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/High_dynamic_range
3: http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/Generator_Layers

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