K1TesseraEna wrote:
Many PSD file features are not transferable to GIMP, we can't speak of full PSD support, much less of commercial use in GIMP with output psd format.
As far as I know, many commercial outfits only require work to be submitted in PSD, they don't care if they are editable or not, and in many cases it's ok to just submit your work as a flattened single-layer PSD image. This can more than easily be done with both GIMP and Krita. And PSD support for both is improving constantly.
K1TesseraEna wrote:
This is an overstatement. GIMP 2.9 is not recommended for production by the devs, not to mention the fact that it is extremely slow and crashes on large images. Krita has not been around long enough to speak of ages.
Krita development started in 1999, and higher bit depth support was introduced in version 1.5 (current is 2.6).
K1TesseraEna wrote:
GIMP, Inkscape and Krita operate in RGB color space only.
False. Krita operates in CMYK natively. It also natively supports YCbCr, LAB, XYZ and grayscale colour spaces. And each of them optionally in higher bit depths (8bit, 16bit and 32bit float).
I just went and created a new 16bit CMYK image in Krita. (Doesn't work too smoothly on my ancient hardware but the latest Photoshop probably won't even run on it, so...)
K1TesseraEna wrote:
I wouldn't bring up Krita as an argument at all. First of all, it has not yet gained popularity.
Lots of crappy things are popular. Lots of great things are unpopular.
My point is simply that as long as we keep taking for granted that "Photoshop is the industry standard" and repeating it, it's going to stay in the collective minds of people as a "truth". When the fact is there are alternatives that people can use. In most cases, there's no need for photoshop - 90% of all tasks can be done with open source alternatives, the tasks that require Photoshop or other proprietary software are becoming less and less.
K1TesseraEna wrote:
And it's not going to happen soon as long as the majority of computer users are on Windows and Mac (80-85% for PC and 90-95% for corporations combined). Krita is pretty much unusable on Windows
Meh, that could easily change in the future, all microsoft has to do is stick to windows 8 and refuse to extend the life of windows 7...
K1TesseraEna wrote:
OpenCL is going to be used with GEGL for GPU rendering in GIMP in later releases of GIMP 2.10
Possibly, if they get it working by then - I wouldn't take GIMP devs' roadmaps as 100% canon. I mean, I love the work they do but come on. The point is, Krita has it now... there's just so much stuff in Krita that GIMP is only beginning to implement. I love both softwares and they're both great for what they're meant for, but in some areas Krita is simply way ahead of GIMP.
K1TesseraEna wrote:
Krita is pretty much unusable on Windows (trust me, I tried it)
When did you try it? They've improved on windows compatibility recently.