Very well presented. Since my focus is more on photo editing and layouts, the Affinity products are more for me. However, I now have a deep respect for Krita for digital artists.
Honestly, if you're shopping JPEG, Krita is still amazing. I really do prefer it. Where it faltered was handling my CR2 raw files (it couldn't debayerize the image well) last year when I first delved into it. I heard that, since then, they've updated support for CR2 so I'm curious to go back and update Krita to see if the handling has improved as I'm not enjoying Affinity at all.
I tried Affinity Photo for drawing and it's like what you said: It is only meant for photo editing, not really for drawing. My biggest problem with Affinity Photo are the brush strokes. They are too jagged and pixelated and there is no option to fix it.* Instead, I would recommend Krita, because of how amazing it is for digital drawing. * There is however a reason, why it's pixelated: Affinity Photo gives you a photo realistic view (how it looks like on paper), hence why the pixels. So, it isn't really meant for digital drawing. In terms of drawing, Affinity Designer does a better job, but it's meant for vector graphics.
Yep, but not only free of price but also 'free' of freedom. It source code is available for everyone! If you are a programmer, you can see the source code, learn from it, make changes that you need and help to improve the program =) As the same way as blender. For more information look for GPL, Linux, FSF and Richard Stallman. =) Regards!
Excellent video as always! I can't believe I'm just now discovering Krita in 2022 😂 your absolutely right draw in Krita and finish in Affinity Photo or Designer. It's part of the trifecta
23:08 you can also enable to use this perspective grids for brush parameter. For example if you link Brush size in the brush editor to perspective the size of the brush is affected by the perspective grid. So it will be big in the front and smaller as it goes back :)
Thank you for doing this useful comparison. I'm a beginner and started using Krita for digital painting. I have found it easy to use and a great way to get into digital art. Recently I was tempted to buy Affinity Designer at special spring sale discount and am considering purchasing AP also. Seems like Krita, AP and AD can work together. It would be nice if you could demonstrate how to take work done in Krita and finish it off in AP and/or AD to get a more professional look.
i learned a lot about Krita , thank you. I play with it but mostly use sketchbook pro for drawing. Photo can be used for drawing but it isn't really designed for that. That said , it isn't terrible for artwork, but since one is cheap and the other is free, i say use both!
@@OlivioSarikas It does have more features, I come from a pen and ink background and so far, Sketchbook has the that look like real pen strokes to me. I also like it has less features, keeps me closer to a real drawing on paper experience in some ways. That is certainly changing though, we have an embarrassment of riches with drawing programs these days!
4:20 I just need to say, thatt next to the stabaliser option there are the two icons, one is a circle on is a bounce. You've got the delay one on this is to create a drag feeling. The other is immediate input display, this will have it like krita
Don't open the sliders for Width, Opacity, etc., as mentioned around 10:00, just click and drag left/right over the words Width, Opacity, or Flow, etc. and the value will change. I think I saw it in a Ps video by Unmesh and just tried it. I used to use Alt-Both-Mouse-Buttons to adjust Width all the time because of this, but now the other settings are almost as easy, too.
19:00 Actually, you could just create a new layer to paint on and then drag it on to the old layer which will work as the mask, which you can change by just painting/erasing on it again. That way you can have multiple layers masked on to the same base layer without much fear of going outside the lines. Another alternative is to activate Protect Alpha on your brush which will prevent you from painting on transparent parts on any layer. I do think however that locking the alpha channel on individual layers like in Krita and Photoshop should be added to Affinity as well. I used it quite a lot and it is a pretty nice quality of life feature.
Hi Frozen, that are some really creative ideas to make that happen. Thank you :) I wonder how well that works in areas where you have blured edges and such. I will give it a try :)
Thank you, I'm a beginner to both and was wondering if I should bother using Krita for drawing if I can do both photo editing AND digital drawing in AP.. I thought if AP could do both it would save time to only learn one program for everything in one go. There's not much info on drawing in AP but since it's similar to Photoshop I knew it was a possibility since a lot of people use Photoshop to draw.
Personally, I already own Affinity Photo but I find Krita much more enjoyable for drawing/painting. It really didn't take long to learn either program. I just use Krita for the drawing/painting, and Affinity Photo for post-processing if needed. That being said, neither Affinity PHOTO nor PHOTOshop are meant to be dedicated illustration programs in the first place, they are tailored specifically for photo editing, which sometimes includes painting over images which is why they have these tools in the first place.
hmm, 5 mins of krita on osx and i see that the crop tool butchers my drawing, as does trim to selection. And the clone stamp tool doesnt work to select the source. Feels like its rather buggy...
Isn't Affinity Designer more for digital painting and artwork though, as I thought that was the case when I looked at their website. I knew Affinity Photo was for photo edits, but didn't realise you could do artwork on that one. My other question is, can you do flowing lines on Krita and Affinity with just a mouse or do you really need a stylus and pressure pad to do this. Great video as always my friend.
Affinity Designer isn't suited for digital painting at all, because it is a Vector program. You can however do Vector art that can look like a painting and it has Vector brushes. I would very much suggest that you use a Stylus (or better said an drawing tablet) because a mouse has no pressure sensitivity, no angle, no rotation and also you can't move a mouse like you can move a pen.
4:49 ... I don't have that delay in Photo, and I have a very low machine... Not in a 49px brush (in every app, most machines will lag with a large canvas and a 300 - 1000 px brush size, depending on the PC/Mac. There are more factors, not only the stabilizer : - Which is the space between sampled dots (spacing, often called). Is a huge factor in Photo. It indeed is also in Photoshop. - Which brush are you using (some brush features are really "dangerous". Often heavy textures in a brush can do this, too. Try basic brushes) - Size of the canvas ! - Whether if you are using or not the experimental tablet precision feature in preferences. In some systems it affects largely. Nothing in another ones. - Whether if you are using or not the "Windows Ink" feature in your Wacom panel, for the customization of Photo, or as a general setting. - In some more rare cases, the graphic card could be a factor. - In some more rare cases, could be a really under powered CPU. You could be using a very low PC, but is rare to find someone with one older and lower than mine on internet. And I still get very good performance. So... that thing can be addressed, IMO.
When I use XP-Pen on Affinity Photo, it crashes often and it prevents me from doing any kind of progress. I love Affinity Photo but it crashes too too too much. I don't know what is causing it to crash. I have an RTX 3060 Ryzen 5000 16 cores with 16GB of RAM. I don't have Chrome or Brave open when using it. I don't know what is causing Affinity Photo to crash. I want to assume it is the XP Pen but I am not sure.
I think you should contact Affinity Photo Support with that to let them know. I don't work for or with them, so I wouldn't know how to help you with this. Sorry
You mention the delay between the the tool and what it is drawing in Affinity Photo. Could this be a side effect of the very useful preview that you get of a tool's impact on the image before you actually press the mouse or pen button to produce the final result - a feature that is very useful in photo editing? If you are using a conventional tablet the lag could be useful to correct direction in hand-eye co-ordination before your conscious brain can process 'Ooops things are not right'
Hi Sail, this also happens when you are actually drawing. So this wouldn't really support the eye hand coordination, because you don't see anything where you draw, while you draw and the color only arrives later when you already set the stroke and your eyes are at a different place - at which point it is to late to correct it anyways, because you already made the stroke and can only undo it. - but maybe it's a setting i don't know about
Hi Anne, that would be a great comparison too. However i compare this for Digital Painting, which mostly uses pixel brushes. Affinity Designer is mostly vector.
@@OlivioSarikas I use affinity designer for digital painting and haven't had any issues. The only thing is I wish it had affinity photo's crop tool but outside of that 99 percent of my painting process is affinity designer using hte rater side of the program.
I realize I may be a bit late to this party. But I would imagine that a better comparison would be between 2 digital design tools. Namely Krita and Affinity Designer. Just my 2 cents. It would be cool to that comparison, since they both have vector graphic capabilities.
@@OlivioSarikas I may check it out in the future. I have, like and want to learn designer more before jumping on another tool. I also just got a pen display and that's why I wanted the comparison. But after spending a bit more time researching I've settled on clip studio paint to play around on the new display. I appreciate your content and friendly response. New sub here.
@@gamenicity5905 when you start to learn digital painting, especially look into masking and blend modes. because digital painting is very different from real painting. also learn how to rotate and zoom the canvas. that will make your work a lot easier and try to copy other peoples work for exercise to see how they did things. you can actually see me work one a piece here in krita: ruclips.net/video/T_Z1YgER684/видео.html
File layers in krita are more or less like smart objects in photoshop: files link as layers. You can't edit them directly (you have to open the other image for that), but you can use masks to filter them, transform them or change their transparency.
I honestly wish that Affinity Photo was more like Krita. I find Affinity to be so clunky. Also, Affinity is less touchscreen friendly as it relies so heavily on keyboard shortcuts, which ruins the canvas experience for Surface users and other PC tablet users. Case in point: Krita has a quick to reach "undo" button whereas Affinity requires multiple clicks. (Also other factors such as Krita having bigger icons and text which makes tablet/touch use even easier.) Alas, I am stuck with Affinity for working my RAW files until Krita decides to bring photographers back into the fold. (As Krita's focus is primarily art, not photography.)
I hate drawing and painting in Affinity Photo but Affinity Photo is useful for photo editing. Krita is better for digital painting, inking, and drawing.
I'm trying to learn how to paint in Affinity Photo effectively since I bought it, but it is just painful comparing to Krita. But I remember when I went from MyPaint to Krita, that was painful also, so one day hopefully. I would say brushes in Krita are seriously making work easier and more pleasing.
i used Affinity for drawing before, but right now i am just getting straight lines, this is really frustrating, trying to do drawings with a drawing pad but it only gives me STRAIGHT LINES!!!??? Please help if you know the fix, still looking around for fixes.
Its allways: What do you want to create.!? I come from Photoshop and now ist Affinity.. Because of the price, ok.. BUT: I work much on T-shirt-Design and Web-Graphics... And here is Affinity Photo MY tool...
Really nice comparison, thanks so much! Sometimes I really struggle with the brushes in affinity, because of the missing testpad that Krita has and I become frustrated opening up all the menu again. Looks really handy all in all! 🎉🤘🙏
The default for artists is iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, Procreate. Underpinned by Affinity Designer and Photo. You have lost your way. I support you so you can use the correct hard and software. Time to advance from amateur to Professional...
No.... iPad...Pro(?) is NOT the default professional tool for artists, by any means, although there are some misleading people working to build that image. There are limitations in iOS (even in latest 13 version!) , in color calibrating the device, in Metal and the limit of just 8 gb of ram, versus half a terabyte that u can have in a desktop machine... A Windows or Mac professional machine plus a Wacom Cintiq 32 or the previous Cintiq 27 QHD, does largely beat the iPad pro for any full time, 8-10 hours-a-day artist. I should know, my plate of food gets there solely thanks to my art. Since quite some decades, being before a traditional artist, for obvious reasons. And now, in software terms, go make gigs and projects for clients that work with the industry standards, that is, proficiency and files exchange based on Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel Painter. And its native files, never fully well read by any iPad app. It's a nice toy, I give it that, though. I use a Windows machine + a Wacom tablet. Have worked as a professional graphic artist in several fields, at 10 companies and then a long time as a freelancer. A bunch of clients would very, *very* strongly disagree with anyone thinking I am an "amateur who must switch to professional" because I don't use, neither expect ever to do so, an iPad. They're absolutely happy and constantly proposing to put positive quotes + references about my work everywhere. And I use, very happily, a Windows PC (which is not even a powerful one!), standard graphic software (a very varied set, among them, the Affinity apps) and a large Wacom tablet. Most respect to you, I mean no ad hominem disrespect (neither any kind of disrespect, obviously), but that statement is not accurate. At all.
Yes! I've been experimenting with this and have found that, if you re-export your Krita project as PSD, Affinity Photo will import it with all layers, masks, and groups properly preserved. I had originally tried doing this "properly" with an open interchange file format and, unfortunately, the groups and layer hierarchies weren't properly preserved and the masks were black and white pixel layers (which I suppose could be converted back to a mask). But, alas, the "wrong" way of using PSD as an interchange format is actually the best way for these two programs to work together. Have fun!
Very well presented. Since my focus is more on photo editing and layouts, the Affinity products are more for me. However, I now have a deep respect for Krita for digital artists.
Honestly, if you're shopping JPEG, Krita is still amazing. I really do prefer it. Where it faltered was handling my CR2 raw files (it couldn't debayerize the image well) last year when I first delved into it. I heard that, since then, they've updated support for CR2 so I'm curious to go back and update Krita to see if the handling has improved as I'm not enjoying Affinity at all.
Thank you, Alan. Krita has some neat tricks for editing too. You can use them together. Since Krita is free there is no harm in having it :)
4:20 Regarding that lag, if you go to Edit>Preferences>user interface, and uncheck the option "show brush previews", it helps a little
I tried Affinity Photo for drawing and it's like what you said: It is only meant for photo editing, not really for drawing. My biggest problem with Affinity Photo are the brush strokes. They are too jagged and pixelated and there is no option to fix it.* Instead, I would recommend Krita, because of how amazing it is for digital drawing.
* There is however a reason, why it's pixelated: Affinity Photo gives you a photo realistic view (how it looks like on paper), hence why the pixels. So, it isn't really meant for digital drawing. In terms of drawing, Affinity Designer does a better job, but it's meant for vector graphics.
Krita really suprised me with how deep it is for a free program.
Thank you, Kutty. Yes, me too. When i first saw the website, i thought it's just a toy. But it's a really good and deep program :)
Yep, but not only free of price but also 'free' of freedom.
It source code is available for everyone!
If you are a programmer, you can see the source code, learn from it, make changes that you need and help to improve the program =)
As the same way as blender.
For more information look for GPL, Linux, FSF and Richard Stallman. =)
Regards!
An open source toy. Mean it could be improved by any ingeneers on the planet eheh
Finally, I have been waiting for somebody to do this. Thank you so much for this video. :)
Thank you, Nina w
@@OlivioSarikas You are very welcome . I love your content!
Excellent video as always! I can't believe I'm just now discovering Krita in 2022 😂 your absolutely right draw in Krita and finish in Affinity Photo or Designer. It's part of the trifecta
23:08 you can also enable to use this perspective grids for brush parameter. For example if you link Brush size in the brush editor to perspective the size of the brush is affected by the perspective grid. So it will be big in the front and smaller as it goes back :)
thank you very much for taking the time to do this!
Thank you for doing this useful comparison. I'm a beginner and started using Krita for digital painting. I have found it easy to use and a great way to get into digital art. Recently I was tempted to buy Affinity Designer at special spring sale discount and am considering purchasing AP also. Seems like Krita, AP and AD can work together. It would be nice if you could demonstrate how to take work done in Krita and finish it off in AP and/or AD to get a more professional look.
i learned a lot about Krita , thank you. I play with it but mostly use sketchbook pro for drawing. Photo can be used for drawing but it isn't really designed for that. That said , it isn't terrible for artwork, but since one is cheap and the other is free, i say use both!
You are welcome, Vincent. Sketchbook pro is great too, but i think Krita has more features - if i remember correctly. But they are both great :)
@@OlivioSarikas It does have more features, I come from a pen and ink background and so far, Sketchbook has the that look like real pen strokes to me. I also like it has less features, keeps me closer to a real drawing on paper experience in some ways. That is certainly changing though, we have an embarrassment of riches with drawing programs these days!
4:20 I just need to say, thatt next to the stabaliser option there are the two icons, one is a circle on is a bounce. You've got the delay one on this is to create a drag feeling. The other is immediate input display, this will have it like krita
Don't open the sliders for Width, Opacity, etc., as mentioned around 10:00, just click and drag left/right over the words Width, Opacity, or Flow, etc. and the value will change. I think I saw it in a Ps video by Unmesh and just tried it. I used to use Alt-Both-Mouse-Buttons to adjust Width all the time because of this, but now the other settings are almost as easy, too.
Thank you, Joshua. great idea. i didn't know that :)
19:00 Actually, you could just create a new layer to paint on and then drag it on to the old layer which will work as the mask, which you can change by just painting/erasing on it again. That way you can have multiple layers masked on to the same base layer without much fear of going outside the lines. Another alternative is to activate Protect Alpha on your brush which will prevent you from painting on transparent parts on any layer. I do think however that locking the alpha channel on individual layers like in Krita and Photoshop should be added to Affinity as well. I used it quite a lot and it is a pretty nice quality of life feature.
Hi Frozen, that are some really creative ideas to make that happen. Thank you :) I wonder how well that works in areas where you have blured edges and such. I will give it a try :)
Thank you, I'm a beginner to both and was wondering if I should bother using Krita for drawing if I can do both photo editing AND digital drawing in AP.. I thought if AP could do both it would save time to only learn one program for everything in one go. There's not much info on drawing in AP but since it's similar to Photoshop I knew it was a possibility since a lot of people use Photoshop to draw.
Personally, I already own Affinity Photo but I find Krita much more enjoyable for drawing/painting. It really didn't take long to learn either program. I just use Krita for the drawing/painting, and Affinity Photo for post-processing if needed. That being said, neither Affinity PHOTO nor PHOTOshop are meant to be dedicated illustration programs in the first place, they are tailored specifically for photo editing, which sometimes includes painting over images which is why they have these tools in the first place.
hmm, 5 mins of krita on osx and i see that the crop tool butchers my drawing, as does trim to selection. And the clone stamp tool doesnt work to select the source. Feels like its rather buggy...
Maybe spend more than 5 minutes with a new software and look in online forums for help ;)
Isn't Affinity Designer more for digital painting and artwork though, as I thought that was the case when I looked at their website. I knew Affinity Photo was for photo edits, but didn't realise you could do artwork on that one. My other question is, can you do flowing lines on Krita and Affinity with just a mouse or do you really need a stylus and pressure pad to do this. Great video as always my friend.
Affinity Designer isn't suited for digital painting at all, because it is a Vector program. You can however do Vector art that can look like a painting and it has Vector brushes.
I would very much suggest that you use a Stylus (or better said an drawing tablet) because a mouse has no pressure sensitivity, no angle, no rotation and also you can't move a mouse like you can move a pen.
@@OlivioSarikas ahh ok I see, thank you my friend.
Btw I did not know about "lock transparency" That just made digital painting 1000x faster for me.
Happy i could help, Ron :)
4:49 ... I don't have that delay in Photo, and I have a very low machine... Not in a 49px brush (in every app, most machines will lag with a large canvas and a 300 - 1000 px brush size, depending on the PC/Mac.
There are more factors, not only the stabilizer :
- Which is the space between sampled dots (spacing, often called). Is a huge factor in Photo. It indeed is also in Photoshop.
- Which brush are you using (some brush features are really "dangerous". Often heavy textures in a brush can do this, too. Try basic brushes)
- Size of the canvas !
- Whether if you are using or not the experimental tablet precision feature in preferences. In some systems it affects largely. Nothing in another ones.
- Whether if you are using or not the "Windows Ink" feature in your Wacom panel, for the customization of Photo, or as a general setting.
- In some more rare cases, the graphic card could be a factor.
- In some more rare cases, could be a really under powered CPU.
You could be using a very low PC, but is rare to find someone with one older and lower than mine on internet. And I still get very good performance. So... that thing can be addressed, IMO.
Thank you, 3polygons. I will look into that. Maybe i can setup my software differently, so i don't have that delay :)
Hola Olivio, what about Capture 1 vs Affinity Photo? Which is better to raw processing?
I haven't worked with Capture 1 yet ;)
When I use XP-Pen on Affinity Photo, it crashes often and it prevents me from doing any kind of progress. I love Affinity Photo but it crashes too too too much. I don't know what is causing it to crash. I have an RTX 3060 Ryzen 5000 16 cores with 16GB of RAM. I don't have Chrome or Brave open when using it. I don't know what is causing Affinity Photo to crash. I want to assume it is the XP Pen but I am not sure.
I think you should contact Affinity Photo Support with that to let them know. I don't work for or with them, so I wouldn't know how to help you with this. Sorry
You mention the delay between the the tool and what it is drawing in Affinity Photo. Could this be a side effect of the very useful preview that you get of a tool's impact on the image before you actually press the mouse or pen button to produce the final result - a feature that is very useful in photo editing? If you are using a conventional tablet the lag could be useful to correct direction in hand-eye co-ordination before your conscious brain can process 'Ooops things are not right'
Hi Sail, this also happens when you are actually drawing. So this wouldn't really support the eye hand coordination, because you don't see anything where you draw, while you draw and the color only arrives later when you already set the stroke and your eyes are at a different place - at which point it is to late to correct it anyways, because you already made the stroke and can only undo it. - but maybe it's a setting i don't know about
Krita always plays nicer with my computer than Affinity does. Affinity requires a lot more power and can slow things down.
I’m not finished watching, but wonder why you aren’t comparing Affinity Designer to Krita?
Hi Anne, that would be a great comparison too. However i compare this for Digital Painting, which mostly uses pixel brushes. Affinity Designer is mostly vector.
@@OlivioSarikas Oh, that's true! Thank you.
@@OlivioSarikas I use affinity designer for digital painting and haven't had any issues. The only thing is I wish it had affinity photo's crop tool but outside of that 99 percent of my painting process is affinity designer using hte rater side of the program.
My problem with Krita is that the vector tools are difficult to work with, unlike Affinity photo that functions like the one in Photoshop.
Amazing and surprising it is free! Good video Olivio!
Thank you, jawneethecurious
i've had Krita .. was overwhelmed by UI UX ..Affinity is much less complicated , but hey.. it's up to you... ))
Beautiful beard 🧔
Thank you, Dan dman
This was super helpful thanks so much
Can Krita import psd files?
Hi Jorge, you can open PSDs but not all photoshop function are supported in Krita, so it's a bit if a gamble
I realize I may be a bit late to this party. But I would imagine that a better comparison would be between 2 digital design tools. Namely Krita and Affinity Designer. Just my 2 cents. It would be cool to that comparison, since they both have vector graphic capabilities.
Not really, because Designer is a Vector Design Tool not a pixel Edit Tool. Designer compares to Illustrator or Inkscape, but not really to Krita
@@OlivioSarikas okay got it. Thanks for explaining the difference.
@@gamenicity5905 you are welcome :) Inkscape is very capable as a vector design program and free too. give it a try :)
@@OlivioSarikas I may check it out in the future. I have, like and want to learn designer more before jumping on another tool. I also just got a pen display and that's why I wanted the comparison. But after spending a bit more time researching I've settled on clip studio paint to play around on the new display. I appreciate your content and friendly response. New sub here.
@@gamenicity5905 when you start to learn digital painting, especially look into masking and blend modes. because digital painting is very different from real painting. also learn how to rotate and zoom the canvas. that will make your work a lot easier and try to copy other peoples work for exercise to see how they did things. you can actually see me work one a piece here in krita: ruclips.net/video/T_Z1YgER684/видео.html
File layers in krita are more or less like smart objects in photoshop: files link as layers. You can't edit them directly (you have to open the other image for that), but you can use masks to filter them, transform them or change their transparency.
Wow, are they really that powerful? I know you can do some really crazy stuf with them. :)
I honestly wish that Affinity Photo was more like Krita. I find Affinity to be so clunky. Also, Affinity is less touchscreen friendly as it relies so heavily on keyboard shortcuts, which ruins the canvas experience for Surface users and other PC tablet users. Case in point: Krita has a quick to reach "undo" button whereas Affinity requires multiple clicks. (Also other factors such as Krita having bigger icons and text which makes tablet/touch use even easier.)
Alas, I am stuck with Affinity for working my RAW files until Krita decides to bring photographers back into the fold. (As Krita's focus is primarily art, not photography.)
Thank you, Shayna. i really like the workflow in Krita too. You can really sink into your work. Affinity Photo has some nice things too though :)
U krita for a open source is really good .
But affiliate photo and design are made to replace Photoshop and illustrator .
Krita is definitely the better choice and it's completely free unlike Affinity Photo that cost money.
I hate drawing and painting in Affinity Photo but Affinity Photo is useful for photo editing. Krita is better for digital painting, inking, and drawing.
Thank you, Ron :)
True, affinity sucks for drawings and paintings
I really hate using multiple different softwares for various task. I miss photoshop. If I had money, I would've bought the license.
I'm trying to learn how to paint in Affinity Photo effectively since I bought it, but it is just painful comparing to Krita. But I remember when I went from MyPaint to Krita, that was painful also, so one day hopefully. I would say brushes in Krita are seriously making work easier and more pleasing.
i used Affinity for drawing before, but right now i am just getting straight lines, this is really frustrating, trying to do drawings with a drawing pad but it only gives me STRAIGHT LINES!!!???
Please help if you know the fix, still looking around for fixes.
You can only changed the size jitter in affinity not opacity jitter
Two different applications!! Affinity is also available for IPad.
Thank you, AJ. Yes, that's true. I don't have a iPad, but i hear that Procreate is really good for digital painting on there.
Its allways: What do you want to create.!?
I come from Photoshop and now ist Affinity..
Because of the price, ok..
BUT: I work much on T-shirt-Design and Web-Graphics... And here is Affinity Photo MY tool...
Hi Doc, that's interesting. Yes, for these purposes Affinity Photo is better suited :)
I use both of them 🤗
Me too :)
Really nice comparison, thanks so much! Sometimes I really struggle with the brushes in affinity, because of the missing testpad that Krita has and I become frustrated opening up all the menu again. Looks really handy all in all! 🎉🤘🙏
You are welcome, Cyber :)
24 seconds and I already know Krita is this good it even paint beards red. Wow, another dimension software.
Why are you comparing a photo editor with an animation app? You’re comparing apples with bananas here. Why aren’t you using Affinity Designer?
Hi John, that's because i talk about digital painting, which is mostly done in pixels, while Affinity Designer is mostly a Vector Program.
Krita is a drawing app first and an animation app second.
The default for artists is iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, Procreate. Underpinned by Affinity Designer and Photo. You have lost your way. I support you so you can use the correct hard and software. Time to advance from amateur to Professional...
😂 Not sure what you are smoking, but i wan't some 😂 - But iPad + Procreate are super cool. At least from what i have heard :)
Maybe for rich artists, Bo.
No.... iPad...Pro(?) is NOT the default professional tool for artists, by any means, although there are some misleading people working to build that image. There are limitations in iOS (even in latest 13 version!) , in color calibrating the device, in Metal and the limit of just 8 gb of ram, versus half a terabyte that u can have in a desktop machine... A Windows or Mac professional machine plus a Wacom Cintiq 32 or the previous Cintiq 27 QHD, does largely beat the iPad pro for any full time, 8-10 hours-a-day artist. I should know, my plate of food gets there solely thanks to my art. Since quite some decades, being before a traditional artist, for obvious reasons. And now, in software terms, go make gigs and projects for clients that work with the industry standards, that is, proficiency and files exchange based on Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel Painter. And its native files, never fully well read by any iPad app. It's a nice toy, I give it that, though.
I use a Windows machine + a Wacom tablet. Have worked as a professional graphic artist in several fields, at 10 companies and then a long time as a freelancer. A bunch of clients would very, *very* strongly disagree with anyone thinking I am an "amateur who must switch to professional" because I don't use, neither expect ever to do so, an iPad. They're absolutely happy and constantly proposing to put positive quotes + references about my work everywhere. And I use, very happily, a Windows PC (which is not even a powerful one!), standard graphic software (a very varied set, among them, the Affinity apps) and a large Wacom tablet.
Most respect to you, I mean no ad hominem disrespect (neither any kind of disrespect, obviously), but that statement is not accurate. At all.
...lol..did you write that with your digital paintbrush or a Kolinsky Maestro? ;-p
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Great video! Can krita files be opened in Affinity?
Yes! I've been experimenting with this and have found that, if you re-export your Krita project as PSD, Affinity Photo will import it with all layers, masks, and groups properly preserved. I had originally tried doing this "properly" with an open interchange file format and, unfortunately, the groups and layer hierarchies weren't properly preserved and the masks were black and white pixel layers (which I suppose could be converted back to a mask). But, alas, the "wrong" way of using PSD as an interchange format is actually the best way for these two programs to work together. Have fun!
@@ShaynaPulley Thanks Shayna!
Thank you for the answer, Shayna. I learn something new :)