THANK YOU for acknowledging that Gimp is primarily for photo editing and not drawing. I've seen many artists just dismissing it as bad when it just isn't great for that specific usecase. That being said, the biggest benefit of gimp imo is the programmability of it. The api is insane and pretty much anything you can do in the UI, you can script.
While I understand your sentiment,... I was in such high hopes for Gimp 3, especially hyped by Brody, and it was a complete disappointment. It is still a tool that is built by coders for coders to do some crazy stuff that no normal person needs. It was OK in 90s-2000s, it is NOT OK in 2020s And while you CAN make it work for you one ways or around, it is usually easier to find some alternative. IMO Gimp has failed to adapt and thus it is dead.
@@hackdesigner Gimp easily folds these other apps when it comes to photo editing. Kinda silly to cherry pick features unless you're looking for something very specific. Sure blender can "draw" but that's not it's main focus.
@@Knightimex No it is not. Gimp is an unusable unintuitive mess. Which is actually confirmed in the video. You have to invest a ton of time for it. Nobody is going to do it now.
@hackdesigner It's really not. It's a very good editor. I highly recommend using apps for their strengths, not capabilities. Krita is great for drawing but terrible vs gimp for editing. Just use both for best results.
GIMP is amazing and I prefer it a _lot_ compared to Krita for example for a lot of photo editing tasks. And now with all of the non-destructive workflows that were recently added I don't need to use Krita anymore for effects/filter layers for example But I've been using GIMP for at least 15? ish years now, and I agree the UI and hotkeys seriously need a revamp of sorts to match the modern day experience for UX... I hope they spend time on that to make adoption by a lot of people used to the modern apps of the world a lot easier
finally someone who didn't spend 10min in krita and say it's crap without giving it a chance, i use for animation everyday and i love it, thank you for the video! Love you Pikat Edit: thx for the likes everyone❤️
id say krita is similar to blender in user experience. its a powerhouse of a software and it does so much shit but theres a big learning curve and you can get overwhelmed easily, but once you learn how to use it you can really personalize it to your workflow.
@@garliecharlie absolutely agree, i just said that because i've seen some "reviews" of people that used for like 25min and expected to become a master, i had to use krita for 2 whole weeks to learn the basic stuff but generally i've been using for 2 years and there's tools and stuff that i didn't even think krita was capable of, also felt so good when i finally learned how to use krita!!
Hey everyone! One of the editors here. As some of you have pointed out, Paint does have layers now, but only if you are on Windows 11! Pikat acknowledged this during the review, but I forgot to put it into the video. Sorry! So please treat this as a review of Paint before Win11. I hope you enjoyed the video!
I wish I could remember the artist but I once saw a beautiful painting of a monkey diving in some glorious tropical water. Many people thought it was done in Photoshop but no, it was done in Paint with a mouse because the artist still had Windows 95 in 2018
Thank you so much for not abandoning Krita after two minutes and calling it crap like SO MANY OTHER art program reviews, you would not believe how much that has happened
I'd have loved a bit more highlight on the features myself but honestly the surprise of "Hey it has Blender's feature search built in btw" honestly makes me not care if she didn't talk about the animation side or anything.
Another wildcard feature of Krita is that you can make hand drawn animations in it. Great video, I've been using Krita for about a year now and haven't even considered getting more brushes cause the ones in the program are already so good. Anyway, was fun to see how other free programs are doing and glad to know I probably picked the one best suited for me. Last note, GIMP definitely shines best when used as a photo editor that just so happens to have some drawing features.
Really heartwarming seeing all the Krita fans here. Like Pikat said, it does have a steep learning curve (I even gave up on it once because I was just that unfamiliar with it) BUT once you learn the shortcuts and layers, brushes and painter's palette, it works like a dream!!😊 Iirc there's even a button/docker that has the presets of other popular art programs like CSP, so if you're coming in from another art program you can tweak it to you're liking in no time! Love the support this app had and is getting!! Thanks, Pikat❤
This has never happened to me. I even got Blender to freeze and unfreeze a few times while applying Boolean modifiers, but it has (almost?) never crashed on me. That is among the top reasons why I stopped using Maya.
@@Shining4Dawn Same, never had that happen to me either. I deal with 3d printing so I sometimes have to open like 200mb STLs with a billion polys that does freeze while it calculates and loads it for a straight 5mins, but once it's loaded it works really smoothly and doesn't crash.
@@Shining4Dawn I never used blender so I can just speculate that for these unexpected crashes might be from overdose of data or some oparating system problem or drivers
@MidnightBlackbelt I ran Maya 2018 on a Wacom MobileStudio Pro and it crashed every time I hit the 3 key on my keyboard until I found the setting to change the subdivision method in the settings.
Your comments about GIMP had me laughing. I remember trying to use it decades ago. It was like they looked at photoshop and decided 'We'll make everything different'. I couldn't get it to work at all. I do know people who swear by it, (not at it) so it does have a following.
Nearly fifteen years ago I tried Gimp; never could figure it out. As a traditional artist I would attempt to produce something with it and think "why?" Like you said people swore by it. A friend of mine who isn't an artist but heard great stuff about Gimp gave me a well used laptop with it installed (to encourage me to try digital.) I couldn't produce anything worthwhile with it. It seemed like a bad joke. Pencil and paper still hold up.
OH MY GOSHH YESS KRITA IN S TIER 🙏🙏🙏🙏 i saw the thumbnail and got so scared that u were going to trash on it omg i love krita so much i always recommend it to everyone
Hmmmmmmmmmmm Well if the cat-hamster-whatever-the-heck-crumb-is says it's a good art program I guess I believe them. -But it's still too much work to completely switch art programs-
I'm such a Krita fan. I see Krita's icon on a thumbnail, I immediately click just to see what you think of it. I've been using this program for so many years and I always learn more things about it. What do you mean it can FILL IN FLATS!? HUH That's such a game changer!! That's one of the things I envy CSP users on but it turns out Krita also has it AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
SAAAMEMEE i am a die hard krita fan and learning about that is revolutionary, i've been experimenting more with krita recently and finding out SO much about what it can do
I prefer Krita over the ps trash is bexause you can really hotkey anything, so the canvasrotation is on space + shift instead of janky "Rotation tool", the shift holding brush size changer is a very powerful hotkey. Kritas constraint tool is pretty useful. I dislike just one thing: color scheme is not like in photoshop, so its harder to make saturated paintings.
as a finger artist, i find amazing how pc users can draw so good bc im terrible at drawing on pc, even with a graphic tablet (also find it hard to draw with my index finger, i only use it to move the canvas and overall i use my thumb anyway)
paint actually does have interesting stuff! very underrated - holding the right click while erasing erases that colour only which soooorta means if you use a pale colour then you have multiple layers! also setting the page to black/white turns the colours into dithering brushes which makes it great for pixel art
The Krita and GNU/Linux combo has been an incredibly comfortable setup for me over the past few years. Not having to deal with Windows or resort to pirating CSP/Photoshop has been a real relief. The KDE team and all the contributors to Krita have done an outstanding job. For a free and open-source program, Krita is surprisingly feature-rich and holds its own against paid alternatives. In fact, I’d argue that once you master Krita’s brush engine, it surpasses CSP’s.
And if you haven't already, definitely contribute to them via code or financial incentive so that the app can be the best that it is! KDE puts a lot of care into their apps, whether it be Krita or Kdenlive, and it's wonderful to never have to boot my Windows SSD up anymore.
The biggest issue with it is the banding especially if you work with almost unsaturated dark colors, it feels like it's easier to get banding in Krita than Photoshop. But that's only a problem if you're a semi realism or realism artist and since it seems like a software mainly driven by painters I see why they don't really care about it.
@@Thewingsoffreedom. that sounds like your signal to start using bigger bit depth and linear color spaces. Krita's colors in sRGN have the exact same numbers as PS's ones, 256^4, which does mean a pretty small amount when the colors are very close together.
I can get resorting to pirating Photoshop, especially now with Adobe's blatantly anti-consumer practices making headlines, but please don't pirate CSP. It's high quality professional software that can be bought with a single payment of under $60 USD. I love Krita for simple illustrations, but I've experienced slow down when messing with filters and non-destructive editing and you very quickly get a lot of frame skipping when making high resolution animation with it.
Gimp holds a very special place in my heart because it was THE free art software when I was a kid, but man, not having a major version update in 20 years makes it sooo bad.
Well at least GIMP 3.0 is finally coming probably next year but um the release candidate have made using it way better especially for drawing too since it has the brushes from my paint if you press and hold the mouse button ( right click and select it in the brush icon ).
I have been drawing with GIMP for years now. I hope it can get some new additions, so it is more comparable to photoshop. Something to help with shading would be nice.
я буквально весь свой путь использую это приложение. Пыталась переходить на аналоги, но они мне не понравились, так чтго firealpaca навсегда в моем сердце😍
As someone who uses GIMP for image editing, I fully agree. That thing is NOT beginner friendly 😭 I do very basic edits for VRoid textures and that's it.
@@weston7995I was 16 in 2006 when I joined :) I just found this video through the algorithm, don't typically watch pikat but she's very informative here.
As someone who uses GIMP for art, just don't. RC1 has made it miles better but if you're getting into it just use Krita. The only reason I use GIMP is because I started using it for photo editing and then started doing art with it too.
i'd like to offer an additional piece of krita propaganda: it doesn't crash often for me but if it does it's usually not a big deal because it has a pretty good autosave feature. you can also record your process. it's a great program overall it just takes some getting used to
A few years ago it crashed really often But for 2/3 years there has been no more problem in any case on my side, even for the animation, while I was able to make animations with background and several animated layers
i found out how to program krita so that there is virtually no lag. its in the color dpi settings. lower it to 72dpi. another important setting is the color bits from (16mbps to 8). I started doing screen records also +20minutes.
8:40 to the person in chat saying "someone was paid to make that spin"... That's the beauty of it, the answer is 100% no, it's pure peer reviewed volontiers work. Which I think is even better, rather than a moody higher up asking for this, a whole community of passionate devs and artists saw that change being offered and went "hell yeah, backflips"
The 'colorize' mask thing in Krita is going to be a game changer. I've used the program for years, never knew this or the command palette existed. Holy cow
Here's another little gem. You can have Krita automatically separate the flat color layer into many by color, and it names them by the name of the closest color swatch.
Oh cool, Pikat is rating some of my favorite drawing programs! I see GIMP in the thumbnail, which I quite enjoy. I hope she has cool and positive thoughts and experiences with the program! Okay, time to watch
I learned a trick for paint in a speedpaint once, you have to use the default pencil for it to work better tho. You first draw your sketch in the colour thats not going to be your lineart color, then line it, then use the bucket tool to color the sketch into white, because white is transparent in paint!
You can also change the color of only a part your lineart(or a specific color section), I can't remember the key, but you have to change the color to the color you want to change, the secondary one I to the one you want, and maybe you hold the right key with while drawing on the part, then voila! (Take this one with a grain of salt I don't remember the exact anymore it's been years my friend taught me that)
I made a joke recently about using Blender for everything, its so funny that you included it here. To be fair - there's a surprising number of 2D animators that love Grease Pencil. I personally couldn't get the flow right 😂
In Blender, you can press F3 to search commands, like Krita's ctrl + enter search thingy. I'm learning Blender grease pencil only cuz I've already used Blender for 3d for years. So I already know how to setup materials, edit mode, and most importantly for me, how to make auto-save permanent so i won't lose any work if my pc freezes. Random blender tips: - If you wanna learn Blender for some reason, use an Lts version (long-term support) that had a lot of updates, cuz they're usually more stable with lots of fixes. - With Blender, you can also change colours later IF you used materials. - You can press tab and pick edit mode and press O to turn on proportional editing (and turn on "only connected") to move vertices in the curves around. - you can add grease pencil modifiers (e.g. noise). Might slow your pc tho. And... apparently, GEOMETRY NODES works with grease pencil! Which, if I understand correctly, if you have super mega brain power intellect, you can do all sorts of crazy stuff! Ps ages ago, you had to right click to select stuff in Blender. not Left click. Lol.
i used to be a true gimp soldier for the first two years after getting a tablet to make digital art with... and just because of that fact i hold it close to my heart as being the software that really helped me grow as an artist, also pressure sensitivity is posstible (at least was for me) and if im not misremembering every photoshop brush that exists also works on gimp! ( which was the main reason i chose it, since back in the day every professional artist used photoshop for some reason) after getting over some of the unique features and way it works its really a fine drawng software that gives u acces to a lot of photo-editing knowledge and skills (since you are kinda forced into using that terminology when editing ur art)
also almost everything was customizable and especially my color wheel and stuff did NOT look like that LOL. u can even animate in gimp if u wanted to (altough its of course not the most convinient software for that but i still remember making some animations a few years a go and it not being hard at all after watching a tutorial)
I remember that era! Part of the reason Photoshop (and Adobe in general) had a chokehold on the market back in the day was that a) it was before they started their full-on predatory subscription payment scheme and so you could pay once and have it forever, and b) there was not really any solid competition, free or otherwise. From what I remember, back then Gimp was really the only one that carved out a niche as a free but functionally limited alternative, with other options (either free like FireAlpaca or single payment like Paint Tool Sai) only getting a solid foothold later once Adobe started jacking up their prices and changed to the subscription model. Adobe's greed effectively priced out independent artists, and these days the only ones I know who still use their software are corporate graphic design firms. These days it's not even really worth the effort to pirate them, since from what I've heard they've become bloated buggy messes, and there are so many other _better_ options for indies and newbies looking to not break the bank who just want decent 2d art software.
Yeah, I think Krita has an objectively better UI than Gimp (especially for those starting out), but I'm much more used to Gimp than Krita, so I end up getting things done faster and more efficiently in Gimp. A lot of what she said about Blender also applies to Gimp though: it'll do everything on that list and then some, if you can find it and figure out how to use it, but for someone who doesn't have experience with Gimp and its terminology, it's kind of a huge scavenger hunt. I'd say I honestly agree with most of her list, but I'd put Gimp in A-tier (yes, it's that good when you're used to it) and move Medibang down to B (the ads and login nagging really kill it, imho). I'd definitely recommend Krita to new artists, but Gimp isn't a bad choice for those willing to do some digging. And I'd honestly say both Gimp *and* Krita are better than Photoshop.
I used to use gimp when I first started out. Then I got a photoshop copy through my school that I adapted to. After that recently expired I downloaded both the currently released gimp and the beta version for 3.0 and couldn't get back into either of them. I still like them both quite a lot, but after so many years I decided to pay for semi-familiarity and got Affinity Photo 2 (and then they dropped their 6 month trial 😅). It does the job quite well. What I don't do there I handle in either krita or, and this is a shocker I'm sure, blender.
Blender crashing out the moment you first use it is so on brand. It's a great piece of software and an absolute pain in the 'a' to learn to use at first.
@@shaunmiller6305 Nah, it just does that. There's always a point no matter how many resources you have. It's very easy to try something slightly too optimistic in a modifier and have it crash out, for example. That's practically a normal workflow thing for Blender though once you get used to it--I mean you'd normally get mad at software for that, but it's so typical you learn to just factor it in (it helps that it launches amazingly fast for something so powerful). My number one dream feature is some kind of operation complexity estimator so it can say "bro did you just click Skin on accident just now" though.
The Krita default brushes are quite excellent. I, after using Krita for 5-ish years, just now learned about the command list. I'm learning more about it every day
Using Grease Pencil without actually drawing the lines by hand seems like it's missing the point of the whole feature. Animating 2D characters on a 3D background or mixing together 2D and 3D characters for narrative purposes... Now that's the way to go.
@@Shining4Dawnno, it’s really not for styalized 3D work. There’s a pretty good tutorial that uses that technique. If you search for “grease pencil tutorial” it’s the one with the vending machine.
Or animation. Since the grease pencil lines connect right into the rest of blender it connects right into all blender's animation tools. And this is so intended that the new 2d document is specifically called 2d animation. Of all the software listed blender is definitely the one you will have the easiest time animating a 2d bouncing ball.
Krita is surprisingly powerful. It's one of the few apps that let you work with and create HDR images and has a surprisingly robust set of tools to help you accomplish that. And I'll tell you right now, drawings hit different when they're in HDR.
In krita for those who don't know, if your doing art studies but you hate the "reference image tool" you can go into settings, configure krita, general, window, go down to where it says multiple document mode: Tab, click on tab and change it to subwindow. There you can use two windows at once, another thing you can use for art studies is if you have a list of thing's you want to study for you can go into settings, dockers and then press composition and use that as a check list, you can type out what you want to focus and then press the plus icon and it will add it with a little check box that you can toggle on and off, best part to it is you can use that to export your studies once it's done under that name. Composition docker isn't just for storyboards you can pretty much use it for studies, or a quick before and after method.
7:02 GIMP actually does allow pressure sensitivity, it's just set to disabled on default. Go to Edit> Input devices, replace Core Pointer with your device and set the mode from Disabled to Screen. Now, there's the Dynamics bar under Brush Properties, it has a list of options like Pressure Opacity or pressure size available. I hope this helps.
What you also need to know is, that most of the Tablets will only be recognised, if you start Gimp with your Tablet and Pen. (Sorry for my bad english, i am from Germany)
@@ootarantulaoo6692 I have a touchscreen laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book Pro), and I can't for the life of me get GIMP to recognise the touch screen, even after messing with the Input Devices option :/
GIMP enjoyer here! Fully agree that it is not intuitive for artists, especially beginners, but I am that kind of person who enjoys watching hours of tutorials and installing plugins and brushes in order to learn how to draw there. Also loving my rituals for making the brush sensitivity and tablet keys to work. (I wanted to install Krita once I was ready to move on from MS Paint, but laptop couldn't handle it.) All jokes aside, I actually am grateful for GIMP developers and modders for adding so many features compatible with so many different OS and file types and all of it being so customizable and surprisingly light-weight. Sure, I had to learn to edit program files to add what I wanted, but honestly it's a plus for me, I love learning 😅
The lag at 20:00 is the Windows Ink issue. There is a thing SOMEWHERE in the settings app (as always, Windows hides that pretty well) that disables the hold-to-RMB thing of Windows Ink. An easier way out is to simply disable Windows Ink in the tablet driver control panel. Sincerely, Wacom CTH-480 owner that had a lot of fun fighting that in Photoshop.
I was having a similar issue and for me it had something to do with a "logitech lamp array" task but after I ended it in task manager my strokes were perfectly fine. It took an hour to figure it out but apparently it's a known thing on windows 11
@@sh1dori366 huh? pirating is always a good thing! why give greedy corporations your money, especially a subscription service like CSP? Screw that. Pirate to your heart's content, man! YO HO!!!
this type of comments are so funny because yeah let's pretend digital artists suddenly don't know how to draw if they switch mediums, such a pretentious take
krita is absolute nuts for me, i dont start out massive like now, but it help me from being a low-tier artist, when i first got my own pentablet, the pen taper stablilization thing changed my artist career, not to mention the brushes have fades 👁 there are many choices to choose from, 5/5, no drama.
As someone who's used Photoshop for years and recently moved to Krita, they're actually pretty similar in a sense that they can do pretty much everything, that is if you actually know how to do the stuff. I mean, even for a Photoshop veteran, I had to get a whole series of tutorials from UA-cam just to get my bearings right (pretty much have my old workspace at this point) but I feel like my knowledge of the app is still less than 20%.
Been using ibispaint for 6 years and still ongoing, and I do agree that this app and its interface are tailored for phone usage. There are some limitations but generally it's just fine, only the issue of this app for me is brush customization isn't really as extensive compared to CSP or others, and sometimes zooming the artwork still makes it blurry or pixelated even with recommended settings.
@@ozzi9816counter counter point. Most computers now have windows 11 and older versions of windows are slow or simply not as good for a myriad of reasons
You were absolutely right; Gimp was never really meant to be for freehand art. It's more for things like logo design, and photo editing. For those things it's incredibly powerful, but yeah, it's quite the learning curve. I've spent a lot of time in Gimp, and I still don't even know how to use half of what it can do. By the way, my PFP was made using Gimp, lol. The paths tool is your friend.
you kind of forget how weird as shit blender UI is until you have to teach someone else how to use it. what i really like about blender is that it's somehow very consistent with how tools handle and shortcut works. It is consistently weird but once you get used to it, exploring other part of blender feels very easy
I use Gimp, but only for touching up my traditional art and screwing around with silly designs or photo manips, it does seems super complicated though. The section on it in this video was amazing XD Your reaction to the Command Palette in Krita was adorable~!
I was actively looking for a new drawing app, so you posting this was perfect timing! I tested these and landed on medibang, which I had never heard of before your video. Thank you!
Hello, gimp professional here. Yeah not going to lie its not beginner friendly lol, not at all. as you mentioned, its not really made for artists, its more of added as a second feature lol. i mean, GIMP is just the shortened version of the official name, GNU Image Manipulation Program. I would have to say for a beginner, i agree completely with your verdict, but if you know how to use it (and make the saturation triangle not spin) its definitely better and easier to use. Awesome video!!
Krita is so good! There are even extra resource packs that are packed in that you can activate, and plugins and lots of free brushes (and nice artists on the forum). It's why I picked an android tablet, I love some Krita.
I Don't know enough about digital art to say if gimp is a great program but I used it for a few years just to Photoshop images for fun as a hobby and I personally loved Gimp. Everything was free which was a huge plus and UA-cam had TONS of tutorials on how to make awesome and fun projects from editing pics to making your own gifs and animated logos etc etc. I'm just saying that if u wanna learn how to play with Photoshop and have no money Gimp was an excellent way to begin learning and having fun with digital art. Just adding that left my comment before watching the video 😅 watching it now. Just really loved Gimp so figured I'd leave my opinion before hearing what she had to say. Respect to her opinions and thank you for entertaining us with your videos.
i work with krita and once you get the hang of it and have your brushes, it works really awesome. for beginners it might be a bit confusing at first but like i said once you get the hang of it, you can create everything
That you even decided to include Blender makes you GOAT af lol. Excellent breakdown! Ranking seems spot on if you're sticking to strictly free options. If you had just focused exclusively on beginner apps I would have likely put Ibis Paint X in the A or even S category. While lack of customization is a nod downwards for me the ease-of-use is a no brainer, and the included filters can be very powerful when used correctly. Even with the mobile-centric sensibility this runs great on PC. On my Microsoft Surface Pro tablet this app simply OWNS - pressure sensitivity on touch screen and brush customization are amazing. Having said all that, Krita rules the roost for me as well. Really enjoyed this - thank you! SUBSCRIBED!! ❤
Krita is such a solid drawing software, add in all the possible plugins people can make for it. Donated a few times for it, just because it's fun to use.
Funny story, I used to use Microsoft paint a lot when I started digital drawing and I had a makeshift way of making layers. What I would do is I would take one of the shape tools, set it to filled in, and set it's transparency to something lower but still easy to see the sketch underneath. I would do this to not only clean up the sketch, but also work on lineart. Once I got to lineart, I used the fill tool to colour it in, then just manually fixed any mistakes myself.
Krita is great! Its an open source program! If I havent paid CSP for one time, I'd still draw on it as my main program. Well I do draw in it on my tablet (Samsung) and animate with it.
I make webcomics on GIMP- full color, full painting/drawing webcomics and it's amazing. HOWEVER: you must add the proper plugins to MAKE it a painting software. That will get you all the painting brushes and all the features you'd expect in PSP. D tier is deserved for trying it as-is, but most people/artists unfamiliar with GIMP don't realize it's a 'build your own fit' software designed to have every plugin available for what YOU need, rather than packaged all in advance. And I'm not at all a coder and managed to modify my GIMP to be basically Photoshop. So it's doable but you have to know you need to do it
I never knew IBS paint wasn't free on PC, that's honestly crazy to me. Makes me even more grateful for my Chromebook that can fold into a tablet. I get IBS paint for free
This is my first time watching your challenge and just a glimpse is enough for me to learn quickly Like how is this even possible Your so good at drawing you manage to even influence me for good
I remember also struggling with GIMP early on, and i couldn't figure out why for the longest time, then a friend of mine pointed out that it's not a drawing tool, it's an image manipulator. Suddenly a lot of the jank began to make sense. This was a really fun video! Hope you do one for mobile/tablet apps. Would love to know your opinion on Ibis mobile and Infinity Paint.
Maybeee a smidge better. I am able to get slighty better brush work in Clip, not enough for me to switch completely. The thing that really keeps me in krita is every single key can be completely rebound (and it has an erase layer mode). Now the only reason i use Clip is for its glow dodge for post processing.
I use Krita as my main drawing app and GIMP as my main image editor. At least you pointed out correctly that GIMP is an image editing program, it's not trying to be used for digital art, though you can!
I've tried, off and on, to use GIMP for decades. For me, the layer compositing is straight-up defective. I actually did a video about that, and the devs said "that's how it's supposed to work." NO IT ISN'T, according to EVERY paint/photo program I have ever used! I love that you created a "GIMP" tier. I fully agree. Tool setup is a nightmare. Just getting ANYTHING to work is a nightmare. I use Krita for my daily driver. I'm fascinated that you reviewed Blender, since it's not what I'd call a paint program AT ALL! The Grease pencil strokes are all vectors with stroke information overlaid. They can all be edited after you draw them. Blender is more for things like feature length movies ("Next Gen" "Flow")
As someone who mainly uses clip studio for pixel and Affinity designer for Vektor, I have to admit, Krita is pretty pretty good. And I wouldn't even say for a free software, just in general pretty awesome.
As an avid Krita user. To make Krita more friendly for a user you can change up the interface layout by going to settings -> dockers. With this you can move where your different interfaces sit on the screen. As well in the windows tab at the top they have workspaces automatically built in that you can choose from. Or make your own that feels right for you after you get all your interface dockers added. All in all. heavy software with a lot of customization capabilities too! So glad to see it in S tier
I would put photopea in S tier solely for the fact that it's a completely competent and free cheaper photoshop in the browser, by ONE GUY. One person made that, in the browser. That's amazing. It's not top tier in ease of use and such. But from the perspective of solo projects. This is super inspirational and insane of an achievement. Especially being recognized as legit in any capacity.
You also can easily report issues and bugs in the site's GitHub page. Even suggest further features. Though it not saving tool settings between sessions, and not liking when you use adblock is kind of annoying.
I'm not an artist, but as someone who frequently needs to make small edits on images and photos using a Linux PC, and doesn't want to install GIMP, it's my go-to.
s-tier for photo editing/photoshop replacement, not so much for drawing/painting from scratch (just like photoshop with it's bucket tool that doesn't fully fill and hardest brush not being actually hard...) still very impressive piece of software
My biggest issue with ibis paint is the amount of ads that pop up if you have wifi turned on. Not to mention you only have a select amount of brushes, with all the pro ones being locked behind a subscription. But other then that it’s pretty good, I just use it with the wifi turned off otherwise you get ads switching between drawings and whenever you add a certain amount of layers.
Actually, I'm not sure if this isn't available on PC but- You can make and import custom brushes 😅 you gotta look at every setting until you make something good, but there isn't just a limited amount of brushes. (Also PC version since it came out has been,, nobody mentions it anymore, it wasn't really enjoyed, on mobile devices you can watch ads to get pro brushes for some hours)
As a long time Krita user, it's been quite funny to watch honestly, especially the GIMP and Blender parts, I have used these two softwares for the purpose they're initially made for (especially GIMP, which has done me quite some useful services once or twice, if only its UI was better damnit), and I wasn't expecting someone to try rating them as 'drawing applications' XD You've also blown my mind with Paint, I never expected such a simple program to have a pen pressure input feature.
the first rule to use blender is learn the features and how 3D workspace works…. it may takes u days or even weeks. after u comfortable enough then u can learn other features like sculpture, grease pencil and others advanced option… if people wanna start drawing digitally for the first time and want to use blender instead of other apps even though they have 0 knowledge about blender or other 3d software, i can only say that they are CRAZY…😂😂😂
blenders grease pencil is as hard as learning 3d modeling. i have been learning to use blender for a year, and im still learning entirely new things. when i went to animate and the objects didnt move in the way i wanted them i found the graph editor and it changes the animation, but i broke everything. then i found out you can make guidelines for object to follow, like making an iron bar always point at a cat. so you dont need to animate the bar just the cat. you can also make the cat follow a path which is dependent on a number. you can then add an automatic driver to that number or you can add a manually made driver which is just a cube that you drag left and right. finally, you make the walking animation and send the cat on its way with the iron bar pointing at it that is essentially every time you go to make one thing in blender it just leads to a million different tasks to do just to get the one thing done
I might be talking from nostalgia, but being a kid in the 90s, playing on Paint with a mouse. I might say while it might not be good for anyone seriously getting into digital art, its definitely a program that can help children get a simple understanding of drawing and colouring on a screen. That will be where Paint works well.
@DragonologyStudent Yeah! On the upside, people might archive the executable the way they did with the older version of Paint, so you can still get it if you're brave lol (since it's a limited art program IDK how much anyone could hack it anyway) but I haven't checked to see if anyone has archived it.
@digitaleva My mistake. I thought Paint 3D was just the newest iteration because it has the same 2D functionality as well (and I never used the 3D side of the program.) It came pre-installed in Windows 10 and I didn't realize they actually upgraded MS Paint to a point that it demands I get Windows 11 to run it which is just wild lol. Thank you for pointing out the difference.
Krita has been my main drawing app for years and I had no idea that the command palette was a thing.. this changes everything
Bruh I had no idea Gaussian blur was a thing it looks sick
10@@Scoonga_Doonga
same
Same bro...today marks the day...I have acquired the knowledge 'Command Palette'...🗿
same
Thanks for specifying "(for PC) " me and the other 4 mobile artists were about to defend Ibis paint with our lives
I'm here too it's five now :D
ibis paint is greaton mobile
I am defending it with my life
I will lay down my life for ibis paint x
Although i hate the ads i love ibispaint anyway
THANK YOU for acknowledging that Gimp is primarily for photo editing and not drawing. I've seen many artists just dismissing it as bad when it just isn't great for that specific usecase. That being said, the biggest benefit of gimp imo is the programmability of it. The api is insane and pretty much anything you can do in the UI, you can script.
While I understand your sentiment,... I was in such high hopes for Gimp 3, especially hyped by Brody, and it was a complete disappointment. It is still a tool that is built by coders for coders to do some crazy stuff that no normal person needs. It was OK in 90s-2000s, it is NOT OK in 2020s And while you CAN make it work for you one ways or around, it is usually easier to find some alternative. IMO Gimp has failed to adapt and thus it is dead.
@@hackdesigner Gimp easily folds these other apps when it comes to photo editing.
Kinda silly to cherry pick features unless you're looking for something very specific.
Sure blender can "draw" but that's not it's main focus.
@@Knightimex No it is not. Gimp is an unusable unintuitive mess. Which is actually confirmed in the video. You have to invest a ton of time for it. Nobody is going to do it now.
@hackdesigner It's really not. It's a very good editor. I highly recommend using apps for their strengths, not capabilities. Krita is great for drawing but terrible vs gimp for editing. Just use both for best results.
GIMP is amazing and I prefer it a _lot_ compared to Krita for example for a lot of photo editing tasks. And now with all of the non-destructive workflows that were recently added I don't need to use Krita anymore for effects/filter layers for example
But I've been using GIMP for at least 15? ish years now, and I agree the UI and hotkeys seriously need a revamp of sorts to match the modern day experience for UX... I hope they spend time on that to make adoption by a lot of people used to the modern apps of the world a lot easier
Also, you can 'mod' krita by downloading plugins made by others (eg. customise your own pie wheel, have palette generators etc.)
My favorite thing is custom ui colors, i currently have my krita set on a pink/black theme :>
that sounds awesome actually, was thinking of sticking with ibis paint even for pc, but I'm considering krita now if I get to do stuff on pc someday
I do that by getting more brushes including my favorite C R U N C H Y set
@@darth_emerald I love crunchy brushes
how would you do this?
finally someone who didn't spend 10min in krita and say it's crap without giving it a chance, i use for animation everyday and i love it, thank you for the video! Love you Pikat
Edit: thx for the likes everyone❤️
id say krita is similar to blender in user experience. its a powerhouse of a software and it does so much shit but theres a big learning curve and you can get overwhelmed easily, but once you learn how to use it you can really personalize it to your workflow.
@@garliecharlie absolutely agree, i just said that because i've seen some "reviews" of people that used for like 25min and expected to become a master, i had to use krita for 2 whole weeks to learn the basic stuff but generally i've been using for 2 years and there's tools and stuff that i didn't even think krita was capable of, also felt so good when i finally learned how to use krita!!
Mee too omg...I use krita for everything
everyone LOVES to hate on krita w/o actually trying on it
@@LeonSouza-de2fl i use both krita and blender and its been several years and i still wouldnt call myself a master in either lol
Hey everyone! One of the editors here.
As some of you have pointed out, Paint does have layers now, but only if you are on Windows 11! Pikat acknowledged this during the review, but I forgot to put it into the video. Sorry! So please treat this as a review of Paint before Win11.
I hope you enjoyed the video!
This needs to get pinned tbh, but thanks for telling us this!
Paint is so... comforting. You don't expect to make masterpieces on it, but when you do... the confidence boost is amazing
I wish I could remember the artist but I once saw a beautiful painting of a monkey diving in some glorious tropical water. Many people thought it was done in Photoshop but no, it was done in Paint with a mouse because the artist still had Windows 95 in 2018
There's an artist named Christian Young who makes amazing paintings in MS Paint. Definitely check them out if Paint is your thing.
Also on newest version of paint in my win11 has layers, so that might be a plus 1 point
@@inuendo6365 never underestimate the talent that comes with creativity
@inuendo6365 i still remember the realistic santa one. I think it's still on YT somewhere.
Thank you so much for not abandoning Krita after two minutes and calling it crap like SO MANY OTHER art program reviews, you would not believe how much that has happened
Actually! Love krita lmao
I'd have loved a bit more highlight on the features myself but honestly the surprise of "Hey it has Blender's feature search built in btw" honestly makes me not care if she didn't talk about the animation side or anything.
How do you get the 3d modeling app
@SkylerFordwatts it's on steam or its own website
honestly I didn't like it but it was yearsss ago
Another wildcard feature of Krita is that you can make hand drawn animations in it.
Great video, I've been using Krita for about a year now and haven't even considered getting more brushes cause the ones in the program are already so good.
Anyway, was fun to see how other free programs are doing and glad to know I probably picked the one best suited for me.
Last note, GIMP definitely shines best when used as a photo editor that just so happens to have some drawing features.
Really heartwarming seeing all the Krita fans here. Like Pikat said, it does have a steep learning curve (I even gave up on it once because I was just that unfamiliar with it) BUT once you learn the shortcuts and layers, brushes and painter's palette, it works like a dream!!😊 Iirc there's even a button/docker that has the presets of other popular art programs like CSP, so if you're coming in from another art program you can tweak it to you're liking in no time! Love the support this app had and is getting!! Thanks, Pikat❤
It really is so nice to see more krita fans in the wild
Krita was how I rally started getting serious with my art journey. Albeit I used mouse and you can tell cuz the lines are so SO shaky
I’m going to be honest, I started on krita and didn’t know what I was doing, and I didn’t know that there was easier options to get into
Krita is just the best free art app, period. Its just a matter of learning how to use it.
I used krita for years and I enjoy using it, my only problem Is exporting transparent bg animations without making an image sequence first
Opening blender and instantly crashing is the universal blender experience
This has never happened to me. I even got Blender to freeze and unfreeze a few times while applying Boolean modifiers, but it has (almost?) never crashed on me. That is among the top reasons why I stopped using Maya.
@@Shining4Dawn Same, never had that happen to me either. I deal with 3d printing so I sometimes have to open like 200mb STLs with a billion polys that does freeze while it calculates and loads it for a straight 5mins, but once it's loaded it works really smoothly and doesn't crash.
@@Shining4Dawn I never used blender so I can just speculate that for these unexpected crashes might be from overdose of data or some oparating system problem or drivers
can't even open it with my now dead GFX card, openGL 4.3, don't even need to liquid simulation for that openGL requirement
@MidnightBlackbelt I ran Maya 2018 on a Wacom MobileStudio Pro and it crashed every time I hit the 3 key on my keyboard until I found the setting to change the subdivision method in the settings.
Your comments about GIMP had me laughing. I remember trying to use it decades ago. It was like they looked at photoshop and decided 'We'll make everything different'. I couldn't get it to work at all. I do know people who swear by it, (not at it) so it does have a following.
Nearly fifteen years ago I tried Gimp; never could figure it out.
As a traditional artist I would attempt to produce something with it and think "why?"
Like you said people swore by it. A friend of mine who isn't an artist but heard great stuff about Gimp gave me a well used laptop with it installed (to encourage me to try digital.) I couldn't produce anything worthwhile with it. It seemed like a bad joke.
Pencil and paper still hold up.
OH MY GOSHH YESS KRITA IN S TIER 🙏🙏🙏🙏 i saw the thumbnail and got so scared that u were going to trash on it omg i love krita so much i always recommend it to everyone
Fr, It’s a shame it’s not industry standard 😭
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Well if the cat-hamster-whatever-the-heck-crumb-is says it's a good art program I guess I believe them.
-But it's still too much work to completely switch art programs-
Hey, look, it's crumb
it's 14.99 on windows😭
@daybreak_ofcits free and open source???? i think ur getting scammed lol
I'm such a Krita fan. I see Krita's icon on a thumbnail, I immediately click just to see what you think of it.
I've been using this program for so many years and I always learn more things about it. What do you mean it can FILL IN FLATS!? HUH That's such a game changer!! That's one of the things I envy CSP users on but it turns out Krita also has it AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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wait csp also has it?????
SAAAMEMEE i am a die hard krita fan and learning about that is revolutionary, i've been experimenting more with krita recently and finding out SO much about what it can do
Wait... i watched so many tutorials and Pikat showed me more of krita in her first impressions that like 40 tutorial... what the flip
fun fact, krita can also record timelapses of your drawings, i discovered the feature recently, it's pretty cool!
I prefer Krita over the ps trash is bexause you can really hotkey anything, so the canvasrotation is on space + shift instead of janky "Rotation tool", the shift holding brush size changer is a very powerful hotkey. Kritas constraint tool is pretty useful. I dislike just one thing: color scheme is not like in photoshop, so its harder to make saturated paintings.
There's an old greentext where a guy takes his linux tablet with GIMP to art class and has a nervous breakdown when he gets asked to draw a circle.
Ibis is really best on tablets/phones. The amount of insane art ive seen made on that from people just using their finger to draw is crazy
REAL FINGER ARTISTS ON IBIS PAINT ARE LIKE ANOTHER BREED
As one of those finger artist, yeah its a lotta work lol
@percyfunny same lol, I saw this 11 yr old and she draws so good like how 😭
I also draw on it with my finger but more in the direction of my little pony^^
as a finger artist, i find amazing how pc users can draw so good bc im terrible at drawing on pc, even with a graphic tablet (also find it hard to draw with my index finger, i only use it to move the canvas and overall i use my thumb anyway)
KRITA MY BELOVED
paint actually does have interesting stuff! very underrated - holding the right click while erasing erases that colour only which soooorta means if you use a pale colour then you have multiple layers! also setting the page to black/white turns the colours into dithering brushes which makes it great for pixel art
The Krita and GNU/Linux combo has been an incredibly comfortable setup for me over the past few years. Not having to deal with Windows or resort to pirating CSP/Photoshop has been a real relief. The KDE team and all the contributors to Krita have done an outstanding job. For a free and open-source program, Krita is surprisingly feature-rich and holds its own against paid alternatives. In fact, I’d argue that once you master Krita’s brush engine, it surpasses CSP’s.
And if you haven't already, definitely contribute to them via code or financial incentive so that the app can be the best that it is! KDE puts a lot of care into their apps, whether it be Krita or Kdenlive, and it's wonderful to never have to boot my Windows SSD up anymore.
The biggest issue with it is the banding especially if you work with almost unsaturated dark colors, it feels like it's easier to get banding in Krita than Photoshop. But that's only a problem if you're a semi realism or realism artist and since it seems like a software mainly driven by painters I see why they don't really care about it.
@@Thewingsoffreedom. that sounds like your signal to start using bigger bit depth and linear color spaces. Krita's colors in sRGN have the exact same numbers as PS's ones, 256^4, which does mean a pretty small amount when the colors are very close together.
I can get resorting to pirating Photoshop, especially now with Adobe's blatantly anti-consumer practices making headlines, but please don't pirate CSP. It's high quality professional software that can be bought with a single payment of under $60 USD.
I love Krita for simple illustrations, but I've experienced slow down when messing with filters and non-destructive editing and you very quickly get a lot of frame skipping when making high resolution animation with it.
@@Shining4Dawn $60 can be extremely expensive in some parts of the world. And this is even worse if you aren’t even an adult. Other than that I agree
Gimp holds a very special place in my heart because it was THE free art software when I was a kid, but man, not having a major version update in 20 years makes it sooo bad.
Have you heard of gimp 3.0 rc (release candidate) ?
Well at least GIMP 3.0 is finally coming probably next year but um the release candidate have made using it way better especially for drawing too since it has the brushes from my paint if you press and hold the mouse button ( right click and select it in the brush icon ).
Luckily GIMP 3.0 comes out next year (hopefully)
I have been drawing with GIMP for years now. I hope it can get some new additions, so it is more comparable to photoshop. Something to help with shading would be nice.
I use gimp as a photo shop replacement krita for drawing
i grew up with firealpaca and couldn’t be more thankful 🙏
я буквально весь свой путь использую это приложение. Пыталась переходить на аналоги, но они мне не понравились, так чтго firealpaca навсегда в моем сердце😍
As someone who uses GIMP for image editing, I fully agree. That thing is NOT beginner friendly 😭 I do very basic edits for VRoid textures and that's it.
Is it alright to ask how old you were when you created this account😭 I am just so shocked. 17 years ago?? Wow
TIL you can find user account creation date right on the channel page, thanks stranger!
Another 17 year old account reporting in :)
(I feel so old)
@@weston7995I was 16 in 2006 when I joined :) I just found this video through the algorithm, don't typically watch pikat but she's very informative here.
As someone who uses GIMP for art, just don't. RC1 has made it miles better but if you're getting into it just use Krita. The only reason I use GIMP is because I started using it for photo editing and then started doing art with it too.
i'd like to offer an additional piece of krita propaganda: it doesn't crash often for me but if it does it's usually not a big deal because it has a pretty good autosave feature. you can also record your process. it's a great program overall it just takes some getting used to
wait you can record? how
Wait recording? How lmao
Settings -> Dockers > Recorder
A few years ago it crashed really often But for 2/3 years there has been no more problem in any case on my side, even for the animation, while I was able to make animations with background and several animated layers
i found out how to program krita so that there is virtually no lag. its in the color dpi settings. lower it to 72dpi. another important setting is the color bits from (16mbps to 8). I started doing screen records also +20minutes.
8:40 to the person in chat saying "someone was paid to make that spin"... That's the beauty of it, the answer is 100% no, it's pure peer reviewed volontiers work. Which I think is even better, rather than a moody higher up asking for this, a whole community of passionate devs and artists saw that change being offered and went "hell yeah, backflips"
But why??????? I use gimp and that color wheel annoys me
The 'colorize' mask thing in Krita is going to be a game changer. I've used the program for years, never knew this or the command palette existed. Holy cow
Here's another little gem. You can have Krita automatically separate the flat color layer into many by color, and it names them by the name of the closest color swatch.
@@ginemginem what the fuck thats wild
@@ginemginemhow
What the command for that?
@@ginemginemno wayyy
How???
thats honestly the kindest review of GIMP i've ever seen. brings a tear to my eye
Just think if she learned how to use it lol That's all I use for drawing!
Oh cool, Pikat is rating some of my favorite drawing programs! I see GIMP in the thumbnail, which I quite enjoy. I hope she has cool and positive thoughts and experiences with the program! Okay, time to watch
I find this so funny to see all the Krita people being happy in the comment. I'm one of them, and I actually clicked because I saw the Krita logo )
krita my beloved, it saved me the hassle of making clip studio paint work in linux
Same here
Also same
I learned a trick for paint in a speedpaint once, you have to use the default pencil for it to work better tho. You first draw your sketch in the colour thats not going to be your lineart color, then line it, then use the bucket tool to color the sketch into white, because white is transparent in paint!
You can also change the color of only a part your lineart(or a specific color section), I can't remember the key, but you have to change the color to the color you want to change, the secondary one I to the one you want, and maybe you hold the right key with while drawing on the part, then voila!
(Take this one with a grain of salt I don't remember the exact anymore it's been years my friend taught me that)
I made a joke recently about using Blender for everything, its so funny that you included it here. To be fair - there's a surprising number of 2D animators that love Grease Pencil. I personally couldn't get the flow right 😂
@MidnightBlackbelt I'm not going to try using Blender for illustration lol
Blender is like an artist's equivalent to EMACS lol
@@notme8232Now if only I could get EMACS to run Blender....
Heaven.
LOL
Krita is amazing, the whole webcomic pepper and carrot is made with it. And you'll love it 100%
In Blender, you can press F3 to search commands, like Krita's ctrl + enter search thingy.
I'm learning Blender grease pencil only cuz I've already used Blender for 3d for years. So I already know how to setup materials, edit mode, and most importantly for me, how to make auto-save permanent so i won't lose any work if my pc freezes.
Random blender tips:
- If you wanna learn Blender for some reason, use an Lts version (long-term support) that had a lot of updates, cuz they're usually more stable with lots of fixes.
- With Blender, you can also change colours later IF you used materials.
- You can press tab and pick edit mode and press O to turn on proportional editing (and turn on "only connected") to move vertices in the curves around.
- you can add grease pencil modifiers (e.g. noise). Might slow your pc tho.
And... apparently, GEOMETRY NODES works with grease pencil! Which, if I understand correctly, if you have super mega brain power intellect, you can do all sorts of crazy stuff!
Ps ages ago, you had to right click to select stuff in Blender. not Left click. Lol.
took me a while to figure out Krita's ctrl + enter command palette need to be specifically the left enter key
i used to be a true gimp soldier for the first two years after getting a tablet to make digital art with... and just because of that fact i hold it close to my heart as being the software that really helped me grow as an artist, also pressure sensitivity is posstible (at least was for me) and if im not misremembering every photoshop brush that exists also works on gimp! ( which was the main reason i chose it, since back in the day every professional artist used photoshop for some reason) after getting over some of the unique features and way it works its really a fine drawng software that gives u acces to a lot of photo-editing knowledge and skills (since you are kinda forced into using that terminology when editing ur art)
also almost everything was customizable and especially my color wheel and stuff did NOT look like that LOL. u can even animate in gimp if u wanted to (altough its of course not the most convinient software for that but i still remember making some animations a few years a go and it not being hard at all after watching a tutorial)
I remember that era! Part of the reason Photoshop (and Adobe in general) had a chokehold on the market back in the day was that a) it was before they started their full-on predatory subscription payment scheme and so you could pay once and have it forever, and b) there was not really any solid competition, free or otherwise.
From what I remember, back then Gimp was really the only one that carved out a niche as a free but functionally limited alternative, with other options (either free like FireAlpaca or single payment like Paint Tool Sai) only getting a solid foothold later once Adobe started jacking up their prices and changed to the subscription model. Adobe's greed effectively priced out independent artists, and these days the only ones I know who still use their software are corporate graphic design firms. These days it's not even really worth the effort to pirate them, since from what I've heard they've become bloated buggy messes, and there are so many other _better_ options for indies and newbies looking to not break the bank who just want decent 2d art software.
Don’t forget the fact that Gimp is soon getting a 3.0 update!
Yeah, I think Krita has an objectively better UI than Gimp (especially for those starting out), but I'm much more used to Gimp than Krita, so I end up getting things done faster and more efficiently in Gimp. A lot of what she said about Blender also applies to Gimp though: it'll do everything on that list and then some, if you can find it and figure out how to use it, but for someone who doesn't have experience with Gimp and its terminology, it's kind of a huge scavenger hunt.
I'd say I honestly agree with most of her list, but I'd put Gimp in A-tier (yes, it's that good when you're used to it) and move Medibang down to B (the ads and login nagging really kill it, imho). I'd definitely recommend Krita to new artists, but Gimp isn't a bad choice for those willing to do some digging. And I'd honestly say both Gimp *and* Krita are better than Photoshop.
I used to use gimp when I first started out. Then I got a photoshop copy through my school that I adapted to. After that recently expired I downloaded both the currently released gimp and the beta version for 3.0 and couldn't get back into either of them. I still like them both quite a lot, but after so many years I decided to pay for semi-familiarity and got Affinity Photo 2 (and then they dropped their 6 month trial 😅). It does the job quite well. What I don't do there I handle in either krita or, and this is a shocker I'm sure, blender.
Blender crashing out the moment you first use it is so on brand. It's a great piece of software and an absolute pain in the 'a' to learn to use at first.
its mainly cause its extremely resource intensive
I got the all-in-one for dummies book on it! Along with Blender Essentials. No GIMP for dummies exists yet. But it's easy to learn.
@@shaunmiller6305 Nah, it just does that. There's always a point no matter how many resources you have. It's very easy to try something slightly too optimistic in a modifier and have it crash out, for example. That's practically a normal workflow thing for Blender though once you get used to it--I mean you'd normally get mad at software for that, but it's so typical you learn to just factor it in (it helps that it launches amazingly fast for something so powerful).
My number one dream feature is some kind of operation complexity estimator so it can say "bro did you just click Skin on accident just now" though.
@@Radxix I've only had it crash when I accidentally did too many subdivisions on smth at once
funny how I never got any crash 🧐🧐
started out on gimp as an early teen, it was rough then and still is, but it has a very special place in my heart.
The Krita default brushes are quite excellent. I, after using Krita for 5-ish years, just now learned about the command list. I'm learning more about it every day
Same! I learned to animate in Krita, and yet I'm just now learning about that command listing.
Damn where do I find that command list?? Lmk pls and thanks 😭🙏
@@Skitzidyyy ctrl + Enter 😉
@skitzidy8465 It’s ctrl + enter. It shows everything. I didn't even know Krita HAD a gausian blur feature until seeing the commands list
@@SkitzidyyyI think it's Ctrl + Enter, she says it at the end of her first impressions of Krita, around 1:00
Grease pencil is really meant for mixing 3d and 2d art together. You can actually make line art from your 3d objects with just a few clicks.
Using Grease Pencil without actually drawing the lines by hand seems like it's missing the point of the whole feature.
Animating 2D characters on a 3D background or mixing together 2D and 3D characters for narrative purposes... Now that's the way to go.
i only really use grease pencil for annotations
@@Shining4Dawnno, it’s really not for styalized 3D work. There’s a pretty good tutorial that uses that technique. If you search for “grease pencil tutorial” it’s the one with the vending machine.
Or animation. Since the grease pencil lines connect right into the rest of blender it connects right into all blender's animation tools. And this is so intended that the new 2d document is specifically called 2d animation. Of all the software listed blender is definitely the one you will have the easiest time animating a 2d bouncing ball.
Krita is surprisingly powerful. It's one of the few apps that let you work with and create HDR images and has a surprisingly robust set of tools to help you accomplish that. And I'll tell you right now, drawings hit different when they're in HDR.
In krita for those who don't know, if your doing art studies but you hate the "reference image tool" you can go into settings, configure krita, general, window, go down to where it says multiple document mode: Tab, click on tab and change it to subwindow.
There you can use two windows at once, another thing you can use for art studies is if you have a list of thing's you want to study for you can go into settings, dockers and then press composition and use that as a check list, you can type out what you want to focus and then press the plus icon and it will add it with a little check box that you can toggle on and off, best part to it is you can use that to export your studies once it's done under that name.
Composition docker isn't just for storyboards you can pretty much use it for studies, or a quick before and after method.
YOOO
I think I'll rate Pikat... hmmm... S-tier! The design is very human. Great art UA-camr. Very easy to use.
7:02 GIMP actually does allow pressure sensitivity, it's just set to disabled on default.
Go to Edit> Input devices, replace Core Pointer with your device and set the mode from Disabled to Screen.
Now, there's the Dynamics bar under Brush Properties, it has a list of options like Pressure Opacity or pressure size available. I hope this helps.
What you also need to know is, that most of the Tablets will only be recognised, if you start Gimp with your Tablet and Pen. (Sorry for my bad english, i am from Germany)
@@ootarantulaoo6692 I have a touchscreen laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book Pro), and I can't for the life of me get GIMP to recognise the touch screen, even after messing with the Input Devices option :/
@@22NightWing Oh thats so anoying .... Thats why i switched to Krita :D
@@ootarantulaoo6692 Word. I've done the same.
I just still have a soft spot for GIMP, since it was the first art-based software I used.
GIMP enjoyer here! Fully agree that it is not intuitive for artists, especially beginners, but I am that kind of person who enjoys watching hours of tutorials and installing plugins and brushes in order to learn how to draw there. Also loving my rituals for making the brush sensitivity and tablet keys to work. (I wanted to install Krita once I was ready to move on from MS Paint, but laptop couldn't handle it.)
All jokes aside, I actually am grateful for GIMP developers and modders for adding so many features compatible with so many different OS and file types and all of it being so customizable and surprisingly light-weight. Sure, I had to learn to edit program files to add what I wanted, but honestly it's a plus for me, I love learning 😅
Gotta agree
Gimp is my fav, I use it for sprite creations, background and pixle are now a days.
Your description sounds like it would love blender.... Except for the part that blender really isn't lightweight 😅
@@gabrieldinix I sure am excited about Blender too! Once I'll upgrade my hardware I'll try it and Krita :)
The lag at 20:00 is the Windows Ink issue. There is a thing SOMEWHERE in the settings app (as always, Windows hides that pretty well) that disables the hold-to-RMB thing of Windows Ink. An easier way out is to simply disable Windows Ink in the tablet driver control panel. Sincerely, Wacom CTH-480 owner that had a lot of fun fighting that in Photoshop.
That's bitten me before. Some programs work better with it turned on. Others work better with it turned off. It's all annoying trial-and-error.
I was having a similar issue and for me it had something to do with a "logitech lamp array" task but after I ended it in task manager my strokes were perfectly fine. It took an hour to figure it out but apparently it's a known thing on windows 11
Not an artist but this also used to cause issues back when I was into osu!... I still don't know what Windows Ink is supposed to do
Wacom AND Photoshop. We're both on the struggle bus.
THANK YOU!! ive been looking for good apps for so long!!
i use csp's trial version and just screenshot my work LMAO
oh the blender drawing is actually my favorite in the video
Just pirate csp, it's not like they are a good company
@swgman i would if i could FIGURE IT OUT, i fear im too dumb for pirating
@@mikomiko. Maybe it's for the better, pirating is never a good thing, except when we are talking about windows.
@@sh1dori366 huh? pirating is always a good thing! why give greedy corporations your money, especially a subscription service like CSP?
Screw that. Pirate to your heart's content, man! YO HO!!!
@@swgman A bunch of Csp cracks have malware. You need to dowload the one from a Chinese forum that is not the multi-language version...
"How do people draw with just one layer?"
That's something people figured out literally thousands of years ago.
Shhh dont tell the digitl artists
It's just because the people thousands of years ago were actually painting, and not making any lineart that would need to be above the colors
@@Renikee you mean they actually learned how to paint and draw.
@@Renikee Traditional artists don't use layers either, but it'll definitely be difficult digitally 🤧😭
this type of comments are so funny because yeah let's pretend digital artists suddenly don't know how to draw if they switch mediums, such a pretentious take
krita is absolute nuts for me, i dont start out massive like now, but it help me from being a low-tier artist, when i first got my own pentablet, the pen taper stablilization thing changed my artist career, not to mention the brushes have fades 👁 there are many choices to choose from, 5/5, no drama.
As someone who's used Photoshop for years and recently moved to Krita, they're actually pretty similar in a sense that they can do pretty much everything, that is if you actually know how to do the stuff. I mean, even for a Photoshop veteran, I had to get a whole series of tutorials from UA-cam just to get my bearings right (pretty much have my old workspace at this point) but I feel like my knowledge of the app is still less than 20%.
Been using ibispaint for 6 years and still ongoing, and I do agree that this app and its interface are tailored for phone usage.
There are some limitations but generally it's just fine, only the issue of this app for me is brush customization isn't really as extensive compared to CSP or others, and sometimes zooming the artwork still makes it blurry or pixelated even with recommended settings.
Your voice is so calming 😢❤
dear miss pikat ms paint HAS LAYERS NOW
that literally changes everything LOL
WHAT
@@fulicious2991yeah in win 11
Counter point: you need to have windows 11
Is it really worth it?
@@ozzi9816counter counter point. Most computers now have windows 11 and older versions of windows are slow or simply not as good for a myriad of reasons
BASED Krita, voluntarily brought on Steam for $15
You know you can download it for free, right?
@ColdCactus405 Yea, hence why I said "voluntarily".
@ColdCactus405 Buying it on Steam is essentially a donation, to keep Krita good AND free
@@SynthLizard8I'm starting learning Krita today. I might not hesitate to name my future daughter Krita. It's a wonderful name
@@MarketerVinod I didn't notice before but Krita IS a beautiful name indeed.
I've come for the recomendations, since I lost my pc with paint tool sai, need a new software... but oh god, your art is gorgeous, love it!
As a big FOSS/Linux fan, good to see you being fair on Krita, Gimp and Blender and acknowledging their advantages as well as the shortcomings.
I'm curious as to what versions she got her hands on though? You don't just open any of these and start using them like photoshop.
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You were absolutely right; Gimp was never really meant to be for freehand art. It's more for things like logo design, and photo editing. For those things it's incredibly powerful, but yeah, it's quite the learning curve. I've spent a lot of time in Gimp, and I still don't even know how to use half of what it can do. By the way, my PFP was made using Gimp, lol. The paths tool is your friend.
you kind of forget how weird as shit blender UI is until you have to teach someone else how to use it. what i really like about blender is that it's somehow very consistent with how tools handle and shortcut works. It is consistently weird but once you get used to it, exploring other part of blender feels very easy
Not as weird when it belonged to Not A number (NaN).
I use Gimp, but only for touching up my traditional art and screwing around with silly designs or photo manips, it does seems super complicated though. The section on it in this video was amazing XD
Your reaction to the Command Palette in Krita was adorable~!
I love how excited you're
I was actively looking for a new drawing app, so you posting this was perfect timing! I tested these and landed on medibang, which I had never heard of before your video. Thank you!
Hello, gimp professional here. Yeah not going to lie its not beginner friendly lol, not at all. as you mentioned, its not really made for artists, its more of added as a second feature lol. i mean, GIMP is just the shortened version of the official name, GNU Image Manipulation Program. I would have to say for a beginner, i agree completely with your verdict, but if you know how to use it (and make the saturation triangle not spin) its definitely better and easier to use. Awesome video!!
Mega extra points for Krita for having an animation feature that also has audio scrubbing.
I started my art journey with medibang paint and a wacom intous small; medibang will always have a special space in my heart.
Krita is so good! There are even extra resource packs that are packed in that you can activate, and plugins and lots of free brushes (and nice artists on the forum).
It's why I picked an android tablet, I love some Krita.
I Don't know enough about digital art to say if gimp is a great program but I used it for a few years just to Photoshop images for fun as a hobby and I personally loved Gimp. Everything was free which was a huge plus and UA-cam had TONS of tutorials on how to make awesome and fun projects from editing pics to making your own gifs and animated logos etc etc. I'm just saying that if u wanna learn how to play with Photoshop and have no money Gimp was an excellent way to begin learning and having fun with digital art.
Just adding that left my comment before watching the video 😅 watching it now. Just really loved Gimp so figured I'd leave my opinion before hearing what she had to say. Respect to her opinions and thank you for entertaining us with your videos.
Using blender specifically to draw should be a war crime
I love imagining your profile pic Carebear saying this lol like it's a very special episode
I personally use Maya as my main drawing software
I draw in Neovim
Why? The 2D feature and space is there for that...
@@notme8232 Baahhahahhahahhaa either that's a good joke either you're coding in GLSL and doing shaders.
The latest version of MS Paint actually does have layers. And supports transparency.
i work with krita and once you get the hang of it and have your brushes, it works really awesome. for beginners it might be a bit confusing at first but like i said once you get the hang of it, you can create everything
That you even decided to include Blender makes you GOAT af lol. Excellent breakdown! Ranking seems spot on if you're sticking to strictly free options. If you had just focused exclusively on beginner apps I would have likely put Ibis Paint X in the A or even S category. While lack of customization is a nod downwards for me the ease-of-use is a no brainer, and the included filters can be very powerful when used correctly. Even with the mobile-centric sensibility this runs great on PC. On my Microsoft Surface Pro tablet this app simply OWNS - pressure sensitivity on touch screen and brush customization are amazing. Having said all that, Krita rules the roost for me as well. Really enjoyed this - thank you! SUBSCRIBED!! ❤
Krita is such a solid drawing software, add in all the possible plugins people can make for it. Donated a few times for it, just because it's fun to use.
Funny story, I used to use Microsoft paint a lot when I started digital drawing and I had a makeshift way of making layers.
What I would do is I would take one of the shape tools, set it to filled in, and set it's transparency to something lower but still easy to see the sketch underneath. I would do this to not only clean up the sketch, but also work on lineart. Once I got to lineart, I used the fill tool to colour it in, then just manually fixed any mistakes myself.
Ooh, I'm excited to see this.
Krita is my go-to and I really want to try blender for grease pencil painting and not just for sculpting.
I love how the main brush you picked for Krita is the one I love the most and have been using for over a year lmao Krita brushes are incredible!
Wow, the video is great. Well done.
The gimp color wheel with the music fucking SENT me! Oml I'm crying, & still trying to stop laughing! 😂
Krita is great! Its an open source program! If I havent paid CSP for one time, I'd still draw on it as my main program. Well I do draw in it on my tablet (Samsung) and animate with it.
Wait krita has an android version???
@@bubblesparksanywhere but ipad
@@bubblesparks yes
@@bubblesparks Yes, but it's fairly new and still in the development stage as far as I know. Still, it's great
I make webcomics on GIMP- full color, full painting/drawing webcomics and it's amazing. HOWEVER: you must add the proper plugins to MAKE it a painting software. That will get you all the painting brushes and all the features you'd expect in PSP. D tier is deserved for trying it as-is, but most people/artists unfamiliar with GIMP don't realize it's a 'build your own fit' software designed to have every plugin available for what YOU need, rather than packaged all in advance. And I'm not at all a coder and managed to modify my GIMP to be basically Photoshop. So it's doable but you have to know you need to do it
0:25 KRITA MY LOVEEEEE
I never knew IBS paint wasn't free on PC, that's honestly crazy to me. Makes me even more grateful for my Chromebook that can fold into a tablet. I get IBS paint for free
IBS paint 😭
This is my first time watching your challenge and just a glimpse is enough for me to learn quickly
Like how is this even possible
Your so good at drawing you manage to even influence me for good
8:10 "Im spinning like a ballerina! " Ahh color wheel🙏-
Krita is such a heavy hitter for a free drawing and animation program
I remember also struggling with GIMP early on, and i couldn't figure out why for the longest time, then a friend of mine pointed out that it's not a drawing tool, it's an image manipulator. Suddenly a lot of the jank began to make sense.
This was a really fun video! Hope you do one for mobile/tablet apps. Would love to know your opinion on Ibis mobile and Infinity Paint.
Krita is literally the GOD of free art software. I consider it even better than paid software like Clip Studio.
??? Whats even the difference between both??? They both ar similar, krita just has an ass interface and its free.
Yeah, I won't go that far. The brushes in Krita is still not in the same league as the Clip Studio's brushes/G-pen module.
Maybeee a smidge better. I am able to get slighty better brush work in Clip, not enough for me to switch completely. The thing that really keeps me in krita is every single key can be completely rebound (and it has an erase layer mode). Now the only reason i use Clip is for its glow dodge for post processing.
I use Krita as my main drawing app and GIMP as my main image editor. At least you pointed out correctly that GIMP is an image editing program, it's not trying to be used for digital art, though you can!
I've tried, off and on, to use GIMP for decades. For me, the layer compositing is straight-up defective. I actually did a video about that, and the devs said "that's how it's supposed to work." NO IT ISN'T, according to EVERY paint/photo program I have ever used! I love that you created a "GIMP" tier. I fully agree. Tool setup is a nightmare. Just getting ANYTHING to work is a nightmare. I use Krita for my daily driver.
I'm fascinated that you reviewed Blender, since it's not what I'd call a paint program AT ALL! The Grease pencil strokes are all vectors with stroke information overlaid. They can all be edited after you draw them. Blender is more for things like feature length movies ("Next Gen" "Flow")
As someone who mainly uses clip studio for pixel and Affinity designer for Vektor, I have to admit, Krita is pretty pretty good. And I wouldn't even say for a free software, just in general pretty awesome.
I've been using Krita for years and you just now taught my how to use the colorize mask I've never felt so incompetent oml.
As an avid Krita user. To make Krita more friendly for a user you can change up the interface layout by going to settings -> dockers. With this you can move where your different interfaces sit on the screen. As well in the windows tab at the top they have workspaces automatically built in that you can choose from. Or make your own that feels right for you after you get all your interface dockers added.
All in all. heavy software with a lot of customization capabilities too!
So glad to see it in S tier
I would put photopea in S tier solely for the fact that it's a completely competent and free cheaper photoshop in the browser, by ONE GUY.
One person made that, in the browser. That's amazing.
It's not top tier in ease of use and such. But from the perspective of solo projects. This is super inspirational and insane of an achievement.
Especially being recognized as legit in any capacity.
You also can easily report issues and bugs in the site's GitHub page. Even suggest further features.
Though it not saving tool settings between sessions, and not liking when you use adblock is kind of annoying.
I'm not an artist, but as someone who frequently needs to make small edits on images and photos using a Linux PC, and doesn't want to install GIMP, it's my go-to.
ONE GUY?????
s-tier for photo editing/photoshop replacement, not so much for drawing/painting from scratch (just like photoshop with it's bucket tool that doesn't fully fill and hardest brush not being actually hard...)
still very impressive piece of software
Just checked, and yeah it is in fact by just one person. There are three more contributors but all they really did was fix typos
My biggest issue with ibis paint is the amount of ads that pop up if you have wifi turned on. Not to mention you only have a select amount of brushes, with all the pro ones being locked behind a subscription. But other then that it’s pretty good, I just use it with the wifi turned off otherwise you get ads switching between drawings and whenever you add a certain amount of layers.
Actually, I'm not sure if this isn't available on PC but- You can make and import custom brushes 😅 you gotta look at every setting until you make something good, but there isn't just a limited amount of brushes. (Also PC version since it came out has been,, nobody mentions it anymore, it wasn't really enjoyed, on mobile devices you can watch ads to get pro brushes for some hours)
You're thinking about the mobile ibis paint, ibis paint x doesn't exist on PC, there's no ads.
As a long time Krita user, it's been quite funny to watch honestly, especially the GIMP and Blender parts, I have used these two softwares for the purpose they're initially made for (especially GIMP, which has done me quite some useful services once or twice, if only its UI was better damnit), and I wasn't expecting someone to try rating them as 'drawing applications' XD
You've also blown my mind with Paint, I never expected such a simple program to have a pen pressure input feature.
Thank you in general, and for putting the proper respect on Krita.
the first rule to use blender is learn the features and how 3D workspace works…. it may takes u days or even weeks. after u comfortable enough then u can learn other features like sculpture, grease pencil and others advanced option… if people wanna start drawing digitally for the first time and want to use blender instead of other apps even though they have 0 knowledge about blender or other 3d software, i can only say that they are CRAZY…😂😂😂
Bro the “ we hot pepper brushes “ got me on the floor! 😂 ( I love the vid
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blenders grease pencil is as hard as learning 3d modeling. i have been learning to use blender for a year, and im still learning entirely new things. when i went to animate and the objects didnt move in the way i wanted them i found the graph editor and it changes the animation, but i broke everything. then i found out you can make guidelines for object to follow, like making an iron bar always point at a cat. so you dont need to animate the bar just the cat.
you can also make the cat follow a path which is dependent on a number. you can then add an automatic driver to that number or you can add a manually made driver which is just a cube that you drag left and right. finally, you make the walking animation and send the cat on its way with the iron bar pointing at it
that is essentially every time you go to make one thing in blender it just leads to a million different tasks to do just to get the one thing done
I might be talking from nostalgia, but being a kid in the 90s, playing on Paint with a mouse. I might say while it might not be good for anyone seriously getting into digital art, its definitely a program that can help children get a simple understanding of drawing and colouring on a screen. That will be where Paint works well.
Sadly, Microsoft has stopped supporting the more recent version of Paint, as of this year. RIP MS Paint 2024
@DoveJS so sad :c
@DragonologyStudent Yeah! On the upside, people might archive the executable the way they did with the older version of Paint, so you can still get it if you're brave lol (since it's a limited art program IDK how much anyone could hack it anyway) but I haven't checked to see if anyone has archived it.
@@DoveJS They've dropped support for (And delisted) Paint 3D, which is not MS Paint.
@digitaleva My mistake. I thought Paint 3D was just the newest iteration because it has the same 2D functionality as well (and I never used the 3D side of the program.) It came pre-installed in Windows 10 and I didn't realize they actually upgraded MS Paint to a point that it demands I get Windows 11 to run it which is just wild lol. Thank you for pointing out the difference.
More recent versions of Paint do actually have layers and many more advanced features
16:05 I love Paint since it's so simple and only had one layer, it feel similar when painting traditionally. I feels like painting with gouache!