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What do you want to do in GIMP that Krita can't do with a better UI?


Skew transform and other transforms.

GIMP also has an excellent print interface. Krita doesn't have one at all.


> Skew transform and other transforms.

Krita has them both destructively, and non-destructively as transform layers. What is it you're missing?


I think I might've got confused with Inkscape. I remember GIMP handles transforms very well.


> What do you want to do in GIMP that Krita can't do with a better UI?

Adjust levels in photos.


Do you mean with the levels filter that Krita has, with the curves filter that Krita has, with the color balance filer that Krita has, with the slope, offset, power filter that Krita has, or with the hue/saturation/luma or red chroma/blue chroma/luma adjustment filter that Krita has?[1]

They are all available as non-destructive filter layers, by the way, and Krita users had access to this way before GIMP 3.0 was released with non-destructive filters.

[1] https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.ht...


> Do you mean with the levels filter that Krita has, with the curves filter that Krita has, with the color balance filer that Krita has, with the slope, offset, power filter that Krita has, or with the hue/saturation/luma or red chroma/blue chroma/luma adjustment filter that Krita has?

Honestly, I did not know that these existed in Krita (when I used Krita, I did not find them).

However, I still stubbornly maintain that I answered the question sufficiently, which used the qualifier "with a better UI".

Taking a leaf out of my wife's book "Even when I'm wrong, I'm right!* :-)

(Yeah yeah, I know I was wrong)


Does Krita let you change those black n white icons to something with some colour?


I wonder if this research is really valid. It was published 20 years ago, there is nothing in the abstract about arcdegrees and I can't read the full thing, and it's cited with zero consideration for the actual content being presented.

If Wikipedia had 70 characters per line I would never read it.


That's a good point, 2560p wasn't a popular resolution back then. I'm sure people browsing in 4k suffer worse.


Same reason <ahref="/page.html"> is invalid.


Oh, a free potato!


>I don't know if you can blame the viral post itself.

Edit: nevermind, I just read the article again and the viral post is 100% to blame.


Now that I think about it, it's rather ironic that's a quote because you didn't write it.


I wish they separated the lossless codec into "WebPNG." WebP is better than PNG, but it's too risky to use (and tell people to use) a lossless format that is lossy if you forget to use a setting.


They won't "accept ads" but they also won't pay for the extension, so I think in practice this is a good way to tell users "you're costing me money, go away."


I think this every time someone suggests an alternative to YouTube. Sorry but no one is making a video hosting service for users who both reject adverts and a premium subscription. And no content creator is going to work for free to post there.


As someone who isn't a native English speaker, I believe most people who use the Internet would benefit from simply learning English rather than having an unchecked AI translate things to them. Reddit for example has joined millions of terrible Wordpress websites in auto-translating everything for SEO purposes and Google seems to be fine with this for some reason. It's ironic that it has reached the point that if you search for a "multi-language" plugin for Wordpress, most of the results aren't about letting you write an article in multiple languages, they're just about automatically translating a single article to 30 languages with machine translation.

The reason none of this makes sense to me is that it's intellectually crippling Internet users. Computers and the Internet are tools. If you want something machine translated to you, you can use a tool like Google translate to translate it for you. If the webmaster does this, it robs people from the opportunity to learn to use those tools and they become dependent on third parties to do this for them when they would have a lot more freedom if they just did it themselves (or if they learned English).

Teach a man to fish...


A lot of written text out there in other languages isn't available in English, simply put you have many eco chambers of singular languages out there. Most people are ok with just reading what they understand.


You miss an advantage. If everything is inter-translated, then you can do your search in the language you know and find the answer written in a language you didn't know.


Yes, half of my entire political ideology is based on posts written by 12 year olds on the Internet. The other half is based on posts written by dogs[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...


Yep, it's either dogs or r̸u̸s̸s̸i̸a̸n̸ chinese bots.


> Yep, it's either dogs or r̸u̸s̸s̸i̸a̸n̸ chinese bots.

Please consider users of screen readers and other assistive technologies, as your nonstandard usage of nonstandard characters makes parsing your comment difficult if not impossible. Not a slight or a correction, as I am a fan of Zalgo text myself, but after being informed by others about how inscrutable it can be to the differently abled, I have reconsidered using it.


Didn't realize that, thanks!

I wonder if the future of screen reading applications is bypassing these issues + avoiding parsing weird websites by just doing AI driven OCR.


I used to use Zalgo text to make it harder to read my name when I use it, as I use my “real name” and didn’t want it to be scraped by bots, but some folks literally blocked me on social media after a bit of a spat that I’ll admit was caused by a misunderstanding on my part. Apparently, these kinds of characters’ interpretations are context-specific, and using them as a person as strike-throughs is readily apparent for some, but while the meaning is possible to be deduced by an AI, it shouldn’t be expected or assumed to be understood. My HN username in Zalgo text was taking over 30 seconds to read all of the diacritics per post on platforms I used it on, so I had to change my ways or admit that I didn’t care about the experience others had, the latter of which couldn’t be further from the truth.

AI has a hard time deriving how many r’s are in strawberry, so I won’t expect it to parse my text on behalf of others any time soon, though I don’t think you meant any harm. In the interest of respect for those who don’t have a choice in using tech to help them do what comes easily and naturally to me, I thought I’d pay forward the knowledge of how the world and our perceptions of it is as unique as every individual.


TalkBack on Android seems to read it just fine, assumedly without needing any fancy AI or OCR


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