Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time.
John,
This isn't a fair comparison. You would either want to compare to vector graphics editors like inkscape to Karbon in koffice, or a raster graphics editor like Krita to the GIMP or photoshop or whatever.
What are you looking to do with your graphics programs? Do you want to draw a lot of stuff from scratch? Or, do you want to mainly edit photos?
~Aaron
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This is sort of an apples and oranges comparison; Inkscape and Krita are used for somewhat different purposes. Both are full of fruity goodness, but only one is appropriate for making pie filling with.
In fact, the two programs are complementary, since output from Inkscape would be appropriate to post-process in Krita (or maybe vice versa). So prioritizing which to learn depends a lot on what sort of art you intend to create. In general Krita is definitely more appropriate if you deal with photo manipulation, whereas Inkscape is more appropriate if you're creating diagrams or drawing an image from scratch.
So in a way comparing Inkscape and Krita is sort of like comparing paint brushes and camera lenses; both make art, but in completely different ways. :-)
Bryce
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Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
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On Mon, 7 May 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:
Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time.
Short Answer:
You are asking the wrong question.
You can compare gimp and krita.
You can compare dia and inkscape.
Comparing krita and inkscape is a bit weird.
gimp, krita, photoshop are raster graphics manipulators (with a touch of vector).
inkscape, dia, illustrator are vector graphics manipulators (with a touch of raster).
So back off a second, ask yourself whether vector graphics or raster graphics is your aim? And then reask your question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics
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On Tue, 8 May 2007, John Carter wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:
Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time.
Short Answer:
You are asking the wrong question.
So back off a second, ask yourself whether vector graphics or raster graphics is your aim? And then reask your question.
Ok, so maybe we're being a trifle unfair and unhelpful. You want to make pictures, quite likely both vector and raster and in paper docs and on the web. So what is the best package?
Linux.
In particular Ubuntu latest (fiesty fawn) is quite Good.
Why? Because you sometimes want raster (gimp best but little unfriendly, krita better UI and some nifty new features), sometimes vector (Inkscape's the best) and sometimes anyone of a dozen formats (ImageMagick will convert them all) and Linux has them all and will happily toss any format to any format and will never lock your data in a proprietary rat hole with no exits.
OpenOffice will integrate spreadsheets and documents with your pictures. Several HTML editors are floating around, scripting languages are lovely glue for gluing it all together in real time live....
What's more every Linux package expects you want to use other packages as part and parcel of constructing a document.
Windowsy users seek the One True Package that Will Do It All. Linuxy users seek The Best Tool for the particular job in hand, knowing they can use the output of this job as the input for the next job / matching Best Tool.....
...and then as after thought flourish glue everything together with scripts and slap it instantly on a web server live..
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