Linux Pro: Krita review on this Italian magazine

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Aug 27 12:19:26 UTC 2013


Awesome!

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, silvio grosso wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> This month, on the Italian magazine "Linux Pro" [0], there is an interesting 6 pages review comparing 5 open
> source software to edit images.
> Linux Pro is highly widespread in Italy (you can buy it everywhere and every month there is a new issue).
> 
> To make it short, the contest was about: Krita, Gimp, Pinta, Inkscape, MyPaint.
> 
> They compared the:
> - Multi-platform support (Windows, Linux etc);
> - Editing of text (Titles etc);
> - Interface (how  "productive" and easy to grasp it is);
> - Video Animation (e.g. Gap plugin for Gimp);
> - Easiness of the tweaking related to the Gui (group widgets together and so on);
> - Macro - plugins (e.g. Script-Fu for Gimp);
> - Documentation.
> The final winner is....  Krita :-)
> 
> Naturally, this comparison is probably *quite* subjective (surely *every* one of these software has its powerful
> and unique features).
> As for me, in all truth, I have thought the natural winner to *edit image* was likely to be Gimp. In addition,
> most of the past articles on Linux Pro were about Gimp itself. To my surprise, they judged Gimp a bit too
> complicated to use.
> 
> In conclusion,  I deem rewarding to see krita recognized as a worthy application to work with :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Silvio Grosso
> 
> [0] www.linuxpro.it
> 
>


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