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A Good Month for Free Software with Three Major Releases

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 29 2021, @12:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the world-domination dept.

Rich writes:

The holiday season has brought us major releases of three lighthouse projects of the Free Software world:

Krita has reached version 5.0 on the 23rd: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/

Blender already got to version 3.0 on the 3rd: https://www.blender.org/press/blender-3-0-a-new-era-for-content-creation/

and KiCAD hit 6.0 on the 25th: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/

The upgrades are significant, and these three applications already rule their domains at the entry level. How much further will they go?

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  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday December 29 2021, @05:16PM (1 child)

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday December 29 2021, @05:16PM (#1208502) Homepage Journal

    Krita is focused on digital painting. Photoshop is the industry standard, but Manga Studio might be a better comparison.

    I'm not an artist, but in my limited experience it is obvious that Krita focuses on painting, while GIMP is an all purpose raster editor. When I was trying to create digital art with my tablet Krita provides the better experience. Then Inkscape exists for vector graphics.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Wednesday December 29 2021, @06:15PM

    by crafoo (6639) on Wednesday December 29 2021, @06:15PM (#1208520)

    I disagree. I use Krita for pixel-level work and it is pretty good although there are better free apps out there. I use Krita for processing textures exported from Blender - rendering static lightmaps, normalmaps, etc. Krita has a MUCH more useable interface than Gimp and far more streamlined and useful UI organization and shortcuts. In my opinion it is superior to Gimp in every aspect that I find these type of programs useful at.