• Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Would it be understandable to compare Gimp and Krita to Photoshop and Illustrator? If so, which is closer to which?

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      9 months ago

      Not really both Krita and GIMP works mainly on raster images like Photoshop. Illustator is a vector graphic software. The closest foss relative of which would be Inkscape.

      The thing is, Photoshop was born as a photo manipulation tool but the drawing functionality has become an industry standard (I think mostly because they give free licenses to students). GIMP is a photo manipulation tool and Krita is a digital painting software. They have overlap but neither of them aim at replacing Photoshop as a whole. GIMP may be the closest match. Krita is more comparable to ClipStudio or Corel painter imo.

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        9 months ago

        Thank you for the insight! I rather work with logos, icons or other flat and vector drawings usually, a lot of the time upscaling or working up from zero so Krita looked rather irrelevant with how the those types of tools were not readily apparent. I’ll check Inkscpae for this.

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        9 months ago

        And/or Scribus. It can also import .ai files, sometimes even to something recognizable.

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          8 months ago

          Sorry, but NO. Scribus is a page layout app. It is not intended for image creation/manipulation. That is truly using a shoe for hammer, or a hammer for a screwdriver or a screwdriver for a butter knife.

          You can use Word for page layout or image manipulation too. Again, screwdriver for a butter knife. Right tool for the job and all.

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            8 months ago

            You’re right. I think I was confusing it with InDesign.

            Illustrator was once more like FontForge + Inkscape. I haven’t used any recent versions though.