MewMus

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I've been experimenting with Krita again because I saw posts that it was finally going to have one of my deal breaker missing features (gap closing for fill and magic wand)

But I've since found out that this is only in the beta version which I can't be bothered to download atm (it'll be in full release soon enough I'm sure) but I've been playing around with it anyways

The last two artworks I've made where drawn start to finish in it. Honestly I've had a pretty good time and I'm excited by the prospect of being able to switch away from CSP (something I wanted to do for a lot of reasons, but CSP is very good software)

I'll keep testing as I'm sure a lot of my pain points are still there, but if I can or can't switch I'll likely still do a writeup on the differences between software/pros and cons of each


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Krita's great. I used it before I was gifted CSP. And given what that company has pulled in more recent times, I definitely would be tempted to go back to Krita if they added some features. The main thing I'd miss is the pose doll thing for references. It's super useful. If Krita added that, I think CSP would find themselves losing a lot of customers.

See the pose dolls where a big draw for me as well, but realistically I ended up not using them too much because I found they where making my drawings too stiff.

CSP does handle a lot of little things much better though

  • Clipping Layers
  • Brush Stabilization
  • Adjustment and Pattern Layers
  • Geometry Tools (line, circle, curve etc)
  • File exporting
  • PSD compatibility
  • A tonne of tiny UI things (eg. common transform controls right under a selection on the canvas)
  • and just in general being a lot more performant

But I do agree, CSP as a company is getting slowly but surely more "capitalist" in it's practices and are just a bit too willing to try and implement machine learning features into their software. Combined with it's ever worsening compatibility with Linux systems (something that is already too bad to daily drive there) and I just can't see myself sticking with it into the future.

That said for right now, I am an artist that needs to get work done and CSP is just better software. I can only make the switch full time to something else if it isn't a noticeable loss in productiveness and quality.

I use the dolls a lot, but admittedly maybe I should dial it back a bit, heh. I hope Krita catches up on all those things, because yeah I'd much rather leave Celsys in the garbage bin where they belong. Can't really blame ya for sticking with them in the meantime though.