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posted by janrinok on Thursday December 25 2014, @08:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the alternative-to-libreoffice-draw dept.

Krita is a GPL'd graphics editor with raster, vector, filter, programmatic, group, and file-backed layers. It is based on KDE/Qt and is a part of the Calligra Suite.

Krita.org announces

From January 1st, KO GmbH will no longer be involved with Krita. Until now, the Krita maintainer, Boudewijn Rempt, was employed at KO GmbH. KO GmbH publishes Krita Gemini on Steam and provided commercial support for Krita to VFX studios and artists. While there was growth in the business, it was never enough to keep KO GmbH solvent.

From this point on, the Krita Foundation will support the Krita Studio users. The foundation will provide CentOS and Ubuntu LTS builds, as well as bug fixes and engaging in custom development projects.

New releases of Krita on Steam will also be provided by the Krita Foundation. Proceeds from Steam sales will go directly to the Krita Foundation (minus Valve's cut of course).

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Marand on Thursday December 25 2014, @09:56AM

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday December 25 2014, @09:56AM (#129066) Journal

    I wish them luck and hope this doesn't hurt development too much. Krita's probably the best open source graphics app and pretty good competition even against a lot of the proprietary stuff. The devs have been responsive, helpful, and listen to users about additions and improvements.

    Krita's high quality and I think it's the graphics app open source users should be promoting rather than gimp. It has things that people have wanted from gimp for years, like non-destructive transforms and edits, high bit depth image support, multiple colour space support, etc. Flexible UI, openGL accelerated canvas, insanely configurable. I don't want to go into a huge feature list, but my point is that this is the program people should point out in discussions about the state of FOSS graphics software. It's a much better counterargument to the "gimp sux" trolls than trying to convince Photoshop users that gimp is fine.

    That said, It's not really a direct competitor to Photoshop because they have different goals (image creation vs editing), so it won't be useful for everybody. There's enough overlap that it can still work for a lot of uses and it's a good enough program that it can even be used to complement things like Photoshop. And, because it has a different use case, UI differences between it and PS are less likely to scare people off.

    So, I hope things work out for them despite the setback, because they deserve it. Maybe this will help bring attention to the project and attract more users and help.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Kunasou on Thursday December 25 2014, @11:44AM

    by Kunasou (4148) on Thursday December 25 2014, @11:44AM (#129071)

    I've been using Krita for a while after I switched from Gimp. I really like it and it works very well so I hope this doesn't affect its development. I really like the OpenGL usage since I have a discrete card (even though my nvidia does weird stuff with it sometimes).

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @12:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @12:14PM (#129077)

    What a terrible headline, catching up with Slashdot already.

    If you read more it will become clear that.he is not "dropping out" but rather is in need of a steady day job, which KO GmbH (the company formed to develop Koffice/Calligra) can no longer provide.

    So rather than working as an employee of KO he is looking for other work but will remain active with Krita

    Read more about the state of Krita Foundation
    http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/boudewijn-rempt-on-the-state-of-affairs-with-krita-foundation [libregraphicsworld.org]

    This cloud might still have a silver lining, more time to work on Krita but he needs funding. "Right now, we have about two dozen test accounts for companies, and half a dozen real, paying users." Which optimistically means now is the he best time ever to try and get on board and help enable the lead developer to work on Krita full time.

    Love your work boud, hope you can get the opportunities you need to continue.

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    Anon

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Thursday December 25 2014, @05:18PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 25 2014, @05:18PM (#129117) Journal

      So.... KO GmbH is dropping out then...? No, not the individual programmer, but the company that paid for him.

      Ah, yes, a quote from TFA:

      From January 1st, KO GmbH will no longer be involved with Krita.

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by darkfeline on Thursday December 25 2014, @11:18PM

      by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday December 25 2014, @11:18PM (#129177) Homepage

      Decided not to mod down this horrible comment (How is this modded +5 informative?) and post something informative instead. According to the summary, the company itself who was supporting Krita, and especially Krita on Steam, is dropping out, which is very sad news to hear.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 26 2014, @12:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 26 2014, @12:55PM (#129269)

    why the heck steam?