Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Simon Legrand wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
>       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.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately we may be moving to 6 in the future, but not any time soon. You seem to be busy enough on the LUT docker now, so I may actually go ahead and distribute the 32 bit version as a starter, with a disclaimer.
>

It was interesting to do the CentOS6 build in any case. In the meantime, I 
fixed my issues with the CentOS 5/64 build, and I'm tarring it up right 
now.

Boudewijn