Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 04 June 2012 Jun, Simon Legrand wrote:
> The most successful aspect of it is that it seemed to be able to deal with
> pretty large images at high bit depth natively. 

That turns out to be something we need to spend some more time on :-) The lut docker I and Sven worked on yesterday turned up some dust in our code.

> The next thing was the
> familiar UI. People in my industry feel at home with QT as most of our
> vendors use it. Also Krita has a photoshop-esque design that made everyone
> feel comfortable. But it was the brush engine got the biggest wows.
> 
> Of course it was merely a preliminary demo to see if artists were willing
> to put a bit of a 'bump' in their workflow (by using Krita instead of
> photoshop) for the greater good. Most were and by next week I have to have
> a 64bit version installed in our package manager. {Gulp}

For 5 or 6? I've built Krita on CentOS6 64 bit now -- only need to tar it up and make it available.
 
> The best thing about it was that even artists with a windows machine and
> potatoshop installed in addition to their Linux box showed a definite
> interest in testing Krita. I was expecting to only win over the poor sods
> who only have access to Gimp, but it seemed to win over a lot more people
> than I expected.
> 
> Photoshop has a lot of bells and whistles that we don't need in VFX, if
> Krita focuses on performance and scalability, it will take photoshop's cake
> in VFX quite easily I believe.


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Boudewijn Rempt
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