Tas_mania wrote:
I think of Krita as software that replaces a sketchpad but maybe I'm wrong?
Doing a traditional sketch/watercolor and then photographing it with a digital camera essentially digitizes it producing a result similar to Krita.
![Painting :paint](./images/smilies/painting.gif)
A 'sketchpad' is not really covering it - Krita is a full art creation and editing suite these days.
Krita actually can do pretty much everything that GIMP can, at least for my usage. It has a smaller selection of custom filters than the latter and don't have the long history and big community of scripters etc. But things like GMic are available as a menu item. The only thing I really lack is the ability to clone between layers (but I think that was being looked at).
Overall though, Krita's main focus is on _creating_ artwork - digital painting, drawing and the like. It also has quite powerful animation features. Unless that changed recently, as far as I know, Gimp devs have stated quite clearly that their primary focus is on photo manipulation; that is, _editing_ existing artwork rather than creating it.
![Image](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/22916c25-6299-453d-a221-446ec839f567/dcfpjdj-75965fd9-7d11-4b8e-a088-5f71f985a89e.jpg/v1/fill/w_774,h_1032,q_70,strp/to_greener_pastures_by_griatch_art_dcfpjdj-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTIwMCIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzIyOTE2YzI1LTYyOTktNDUzZC1hMjIxLTQ0NmVjODM5ZjU2N1wvZGNmcGpkai03NTk2NWZkOS03ZDExLTRiOGUtYTA4OC01ZjcxZjk4NWE4OWUuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTkwMCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.alqO_ZUYCLklG7IqInhUXbiKOlf7BfgOeLMH52I1aVM)
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Griatch