On the tool front, Krita has geometric drawing tools with which you can paint rectangles, ellipses, stars, line segments, Bezier curves, and irregular polygons and polylines. Krita also supports two kinds of layers not found in the GIMP: watercolor paint simulation and basic adjustment layers - essentially “filter layers” that contain no image data but merely apply a color or tone adjustment to all visible layers stacked beneath. The current stable version of Krita (1.6) also supports color management, which the current stable version of the GIMP (2.2) does not. The most oft-cited check mark in Krita’s column is that it supports more bit-depths (8, some 16, and some 32) and color modes (grayscale, RGB, CMYK, L*a*b, LSB, and YCbCr) than the GIMP (which supports grayscale, RGB, and indexed). Krita sports some features that the GIMP does not, and the GIMP sports some that Krita does not. Consequently, the tools and operations that they have in common far outnumber the differences.īut there are some differences.
#Gimp vs krita free
The drawing, editing, and selection tools, the layers metaphor, the floating palettes, even the menu structure and terminology of the two free editors closely follow Adobe’s lead. Let’s take a cold, hard look at the two, and compare the features side by side.īoth apps are strongly influenced by the interface and feature set of the 800-pound gorilla of proprietary raster graphics tools, Adobe Photoshop. Coming as they do from the divergent GTK+ and KDE programming camps, it can be hard to assess the differences between the GIMP and Krita without being swayed by politics and emotion.
With the release of Krita 1.6, it seems like a good time to compare the two big raster image editors for Linux.
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