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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:Is it vaporware yet? (Score: 3, Touché) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday June 15 2015, @12:28PM

  by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday June 15 2015, @12:28PM (#196455) Journal

  Well, if you have money, you don't need volunteers - you can have something called "staff" instead. Volunteers are great, but they often can't give as much time as they'd like, because they have other commitments (like a job) pulling them away from the project. If the project *is* their job, then suddenly they can put a lot more into it.

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