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by JQL on 17 Dec 2020
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I understand what you're saying and it makes total sense. However I'm not at all familiar with Krita documentation sobl, even if it takes me more time I think it's easier for me to create the tutorials.
That's also something that I see myself doing for other OS software that I'd use.
Doing that in a way that could fit a global workflow purpose, would be better, but I've been thinking that the only OS I use is Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, ProjectLibre and LibreOffice.
Apart from Krita and LibreOffice all the rest I use only very little and for very specific functions.
The whole purpose of being around here is to learn more about what can I do with them. I confess it's been very hard getting to grips with the software around here as I can't be sure where it will lead.
I felll in love with FreeCAD's sketches though and I will explore it again as soon as I have some more time.
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by Moult on 17 Dec 2020
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+1 votes
@duncan not sure how .kra might help with shadow diagrams.
@JQL I would love to see more talk about Krita :) I don't think it's niche, I see it as a powerhouse tool ready to be used in production by arch firms.
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by duncan on 18 Dec 2020, edited 18 Dec 2020
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@duncan I mean for vector based scale drawings with layers of raster trees, shadows and other graphics. All stored in one file. My impression is that this is something the .kra format is well suited to, I don't know if regular .svg can do that.
@JQL you should totally contribute whatever you thinks makes sense. I was just talking about an ideal situation. Sounds like a section of the wiki in a category of 'Graphics' is ready to start ... done. See https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Category:Visualization_and_Documentation
So anything you add to that category (write [[Category:Visualization_and_Documentation]] at the bottom of the page) will now be part of that list. Great stuff!
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by JQL on 18 Dec 2020, edited 18 Dec 2020
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+2 votes
@duncan and @Moult
Krita is able to mix vectors and graphics and use them as mask for each other. In that sense it's very similar to Affinity (I haven't used Photoshop for long so I cannot tell). It can import pdf files but I think it always rasterizes them. I haven't tried importing SVG files actually, but it might work as a vector import.
About those trees. We could possibly create brushes that cycles through a lot of 2D trees and randomly colors them, scales them and mirrors them with the dynamic parameters of the brush. If you can do that with trees, you can also do that with many other 2D vector assets you might have, as long as you can convert them to pdf/svg and open them on Krita. That is a nice idea and I might try it when I have some time.
Where it shines these days, is that you can do that in an Android Tablet too. So Krita might have it's uses also as note taking and quick illustration work on the go and even on site. There are a lot of alternatives for that, though not as many and as visually powerful as Krita and very few, if any that is open source. Even on proprietary software. This kind of work is mostly ipad dominated.
Krita does shine with a stylus and Android support is really only at the beginning. Architects on the go that have access to a stylus tablet, either windows or android, might already love the idea of having a full blown image editor at hand with incredible reactivity to their stylus and no limitation on workflow, apart for the desktop like UI (which some might even prefer). I might explore it myself and see what possibilities that might open.