[ubuntu-studio-devel] Krita - Was: PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

I had no trouble using GIMP for photoediting even on Pentium III class
machines. None of the photos were larger than 6MP however.

On 10/29/2015 at 7:38 AM, "set" <public at sakrecoer.com> wrote:
>
>On 2015-10-29 12:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>> Gimp (and PhotoShop) are for painting/drawing too.
>> 
>> Krita performs on other machines as other apps do? On my machine 
>it
>> performs very bad. It's very, very slow. Does it require special
>> graphics settings, CPU and or RAM resources that aren't needed 
>for GIMP?
>> 
>Yes you can draw with gimp too, and do so very well. But gimp has 
>MANY
>functions and is hence not always suited for painters who do not 
>really
>care about those affinities. I run it on intel core i3 with 4 gb 
>ram and
>no graphic cards, its smooth like a vanilla yogurth. I also run it 
>on a
>intel core i7 with 16gb ram, Nvidia 4gb GTX770 and SSD. The only
>difference between both machines i can notice (except from the 
>obvious
>overall system speed increase) is that the 16gb ram one can handle 
>more
>layers. No special settings required... Never crashed, computer 
>never
>said "no".. :)
>
>Here is a picture i've drawn with it. Nothing else used. At it's 
>height
>it had 17 layers with transparencies and filters and such... Not a 
>huge
>piece of any sort, but proof it works well for what is ment.