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It then lets you create different types of layers in that drawing - some layers are called 'paint layers' which store raster, others are called 'vector layers' which store vector (then there's group layers, filter layers, clone layers, etc). Krita has its own file format called *.kra. I see someone wrote in the OSArch wiki that Krita uses SVG. However honestly for archviz these tools are more than capable and it's amazing to see it all in one package.

However you won't find the advanced SVG stuff like fancy SVG gradients or XML editing or def authoring. It's basically GIMP + Inkscape rolled into one! You'll find all the usual Inkscape tools like stroke, fills colours, stroke patterns, arrowhead markers and so on, as well as the align / distribute tools. I was totally wrong! But Krita does have good vector support. I know I know, I totally had the opposite impression. Krita is primarily a raster graphics editing tool, which means that most of the editing changes the values of the pixels on the raster that makes up the image.

I can't show my commercial archviz unfortunately, so I found some old university renders of highly unrealistic and unbuildable stuff.

Filters, like colour tweaks (curves, saturation, etc).

All the basic tools, selection, brushes, clone, heal, 'patch', gradients.

Super cool pen support, which I'd love if I had one :DĪll the other usual features you might expect for Archviz work is there:.

blurring, sharpening, light intensity.) - very neat for touching up renders The one big feature that Krita has that GIMP doesn't that makes it an instant win and something I'd readily recommend is that it supports filters masks (a.k.a adjustment layers in Photoshop lingo) for non-destructive editing. It's super easy to pick up, whereas The GIMP might be a little unintuitive for Photoshoppers. For the tools that arch guys need, from my brief foray I just wanted to share that I think it is more than capable and we should definitely be advertising it as an Adobe Photoshop alternative. Krita started after the GIMP, and I tried it a little when it first started but my goodness now it's much more mature and gives off quite a polish that The GIMP just doesn't convey (well, to me, personally, at least). One tool that I never played with was Krita. I'm very familiar with the Adobe suite, and also with The GIMP. I've done a lot of arch viz, both the 3D kind and the 2D image-collage kind. I recently checked out Krita after reading about their latest beta release:

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TL DR go and recommend Krita to those using Photoshop! If they've tried The GIMP and turned back, this may surprise them! This should be one of the links on the wiki for beginning their free software journey, as it's a nice easy win.

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