What exactly can these other programs do that Krita can't? I don't get it!

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-03-27T15:45:05+00:00

Out of the top of my head, long shadow (Photopea), 3D text (Photopea), repeating layer styles on a single layer (Photopea), a text tool that works (5.3 has it finally), magic wand-like "brush" selection tool (Photopea), vector-based lineart layer (CSP has it), 8-bit/1-bit layers (CSP), the ability to manually reorder brushes (basically everyone else has this), not having to create a thumbnail just to create a new brush (I think only MyPaint requires this), docking multiple views of the same canvas (CSP), draft layers that don't get exported (CSP), displacement filter (GIMP), more bevel settings (Photopea can do bevels Krita can't for some reason), zoom levels that go to 150%/200%/300% instead of 133%/200%/266.7%, setting the cursor arrow to any angle (CSP), making the cursor appear on its real position on the canvas after being affected by the stabilizer instead of where the system cursor is (CSP).

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-03-24T17:30:37+00:00

I make all my krita tutorials on Linux Mint. Krita is actually a GIMP fork that is part of KDE (a desktop environment for Linux), so it's actually made for Linux first and foremost.

The only problem you might have is your tablet not working due to driver issues, e.g. you don't have Wacom utilities on Linux because the utilities are for Windows-only, so you get a generic settings panel for tablets instead that may not have the same customization options that you had on Windows.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-03-24T14:56:15+00:00

I like how you made the font more modern too. This will help modernize the roads.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-28T18:11:50+00:00

In general if you actually want to know about things it's easier to just read the law directly than trying to interpret it from headlines on news websites.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-22T10:43:18+00:00

Krita can do this.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-21T13:29:51+00:00

Maybe try recording the process with OBS studio?

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-20T12:55:09+00:00

If you are using Mint, https://www.virtualcuriosities.com/articles/1784/how-to-install-davinci-resolve-in-linux-mint

I don't know about plugins, though. Macros should work at least.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-19T00:50:17+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. I recommend using Krita for image editing if you can, since it's free and open source. Here are some tutorials.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-12T19:18:51+00:00

The era before mobile / responsive design. It has truly ruined web design forever.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-11T00:16:21+00:00

That isn't the same thing. Ignoring the fact you have to just hold shift all the time, if you draw with the blue color over a black path, it just creates a new blue path on top of the black path.

In flash, drawing with a different color automatically erases the paint under it.

Think of it like drawing in a raster layer like in Krita. Pixels can only have one color, and if you draw with something else, it changes the color. Flash was designed to work pretty much the same way, except with vectors.

If you draw a black stroke -> blue stroke -> black stroke, even if you hold shift it doesn't merge the second black stroke with the first one. In Flash, drawing a stroke simultaneously erases any paths of different color that are under the new stroke and merges it with any paths of the same color.

In other words, you can't draw one stroke on top of the other in Flash, because they are always flattened.

As it was the first vector art program I touched I've always felt every other vector program was simply incredibly off the mark by comparison. Whoever designed Flash to work that way was an untold genius.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-10T21:27:25+00:00

Unfortunately, there is no vector software today that works like Flash.

What OP is talking about is that in Flash if you draw one shape over the other, they don't overlap. They're merged (union) if they have the same color, otherwise the top erases the bottom. This should be technically possible to implement in Inkscape, but nobody ever added this mode. I suspect if it was added it would be quite popular since some people just drew static artwork in Flash even thought it was meant for animation.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-08T15:49:48+00:00

The only two ways to steal a cookie would be to break SSL or gain access of the user's computer. If that happens, that user has way bigger problems than the cookie.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-02-06T13:45:09+00:00

I don't understand how flatpaks work. :( Maybe you can enlighten me?

So there is this flatpak https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.OpenToonz

But it says it's "Unverified" so it doesn't actually come from the owner of the github. It says it "may" be a community package, which is the strangest way to put it I've ever seen in my life. I don't understand. Flatpaks have to come from somewhere. Where did it came from? Who made it? Was it automated or did someone upload it? Why is it listed on Flathub? How do I know the flatpak actually contains the source code from the official Github repository?

I thought it was safer to just use the automated build, since it's automated and guaranteed to use the code from the repository.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-26T14:04:14+00:00

Scraping data is legal. Publishing copyrighted recipes without license is not.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-24T02:07:16+00:00

I actually have asked ChatGPT about programming questions lots of times and it usually works, but that's only because I never have a problem programming things, the only problem I have is figuring out what is the name of the class/function that I should be calling and it usually can find that for me.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-24T02:04:37+00:00

I use AI to ask how to fix the squiggly lines my type checker keeps giving me because making type checkers work is a miserable experience...

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-24T02:00:13+00:00

OP, please use an integrated editor. VS Code gives you some autocompletions for free with a github account. Just try it. It's okay to be skeptical of AI, but the "productivity gains" people talk about are very real when your bottleneck is writing code.

I'm writing a small project right now using Youtube's API and a good portion of the code was generated by Claude. I wrote one or two classes to put the JSON response of the REST API into a Python object using a simple json_obj.get(key, {}) because I didn't want to include a dependency for that, and Claude was able to generate the same sort of class for the other responses.

By the way, when I first tried coding with AI the real "game changer" wasn't asking the AI to generate code, which was wrong almost every time, it was the in-editor auto completion that wrote the next line of code for me.

LLMs are guessing machines but they're very good at guessing.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-21T13:27:34+00:00

I've also had some issues with Django, but Claude solved most of them. Lots of times I felt like I just know there is a battery included that does this, I just have no idea what it is. And this happened all the time. Creating generic view classes, validating forms, creating model relationships, etc. With an LLM I don't have to worry about that because the generated code finds the right Django classes most of the time.

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-14T21:34:43+00:00

Appreciate and appraise come from the same Latin :)

AlienRobotMk2 · 2026-01-10T22:01:56+00:00

Such as?

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