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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by No Respect on Monday June 15 2015, @07:11AM
Never heard of this project and it sounds like a scam. From TFA, "... digital paining software". And you want to be my latex salesman. Fucking idiots will believe anything.
(Score: 5, Informative) by epl on Monday June 15 2015, @08:45AM
Ok, they made a typo and they SHOULD have found it before posting, but that doesn't automatically make this a scam. Krita has been around, in one for or another, for quite a long time. First as part of KDE's KOffice and later it was split off as its own entity entirely, with its own Foundation to manage it. First actual release I can trace back was in June of 2005, so they're not exactly fly-by-night. They're not hiding this history by the way, they have it on their homepage [krita.org], and if you don't trust them, hit up the mail archives; they're all public as far as I'm aware.
Krita started as "QT needs a better GIMP", but it has become much more than that over time. I do hope this injection of funds helps them smooth and improve, but that I refuse to speculate about. Just wanted to clear up any image some might have that this is a new piece of software, something that has just started or just a bunch of guys doing a quick money grab (they might, but their history seems to suggest a low chance of this).
(Score: 1) by axsdenied on Monday June 15 2015, @11:32AM
Just because you never heard of Krita it does not mean it a scam. Either refrain from commenting or first spend 10 seconds on Google to find out about it.
The project has been around for probably 10 years and it is part of KDE. Arguably some people say it is better than Gimp.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @08:25PM
Are you one of those hipsters whose first impulse is to talk down their nose at everything despite knowing jack shit?