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Krita's Kickstarter Was a Success; Prepare to be Second-Fastest, Photoshop

posted by martyb on Monday June 15 2015, @05:02AM   
from the zoom-zoom dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote in with a report from Softpedia:

Krita Foundation completed a fundraising campaign successfully raising money for making their Krita digital painting app faster than the well-known Photoshop software from Adobe.

[...] On May 4, we reported that the Krita developers decided to do another Kickstarter campaign, after last year's successful one, this time to raise €20,000 ($22,000) for making the next version of the application faster.

[...] Krita's fundraising campaign was successfully completed, raising a little over €30,000 ($34,000), which means that the developers will concentrate all of their efforts on making the open-source digital painting app much faster than Photoshop.

[...] The current version of Krita is 2.9.5 [...] Most probably, the new, improved code will be implemented in Krita 3.0, which should be out later this year.

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• Re:More money = more fast? (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 15 2015, @06:23AM

  by c0lo (156) on Monday June 15 2015, @06:23AM (#196376) Journal

  The money they raised is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount Adobe has spent and continues to spend on Photoshop development.

  Over a certain limit, more money put into the software development is a poor indicator of the success of that software success.
  You know? Same undelying causes as for "nine women giving birth to a child in one month" or adding more programmers to a project will only delay it.

  ... I certainly hope it wasn't a "well, at least it won't be slow anymore" fundraiser.

  Fingers crossed.

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