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Krita/KOffice Preview Version and Video Available

Posted by michael on from the smiley-face dept.

xiando writes "Developers aim at making Krita a user-friendly image manipulation program where users with no computer experience or slim experience with other light-duty image programs like Paint Shop Pro should feel right at home. LinuxReviews has a 5.5 MB preview video by developer Bart Coppens available, showing how the app looks and feels. Check it out or download the source preview packages by Daniel Molkentin to try it yourself. Developers hope to make Krita a part of the KDE office suite KOffice 1.4, scheduled spring 2005."

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  1. Krita Fun Facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Krita" means 'chalk' or 'crayon' in Swedish. "rita" means 'to draw'.

    IKN.

    1. Re:Krita Fun Facts by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Informative
      Why wouldn't it? Other fun facts: konsole means "console" in German. Many of the "k" words are either German spelling or stand for KDE - kate is "KDE Advanced Text Editor".

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  2. Coral link by g-to-the-o-to-the-g · · Score: 4, Informative

    I managed to coralize the first video just before the server went bye-bye: here

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  3. Kai's Photo Soap by nuxx · · Score: 5, Informative

    If they want to make it easy, they are going to need to do something like what was done in Kai's PhotoSoap. This is the *only* image editing app (besides iPhoto) that I've seen computer novices be able to figure out. The tools were simple, made sense, and the UI was great. And it worked well, too.

  4. Re:Much needed IMHO: GIMP for digital photographer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Luckily, Digikam performs all of these functions except for the last one. Try it! You might like it:

    http://digikam.sf.net