<story><title>Krita: A professional free and open source painting program</title><url>https://krita.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmayrgundter</author><text>I used to use Gimp for photoshop type operations but it&amp;#x27;s become unusable for me due to slowness, even with a M1 native build.  No idea what&amp;#x27;s up.&lt;p&gt;Tried Krita and it works great</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hirako2000</author><text>Same. I find gimp even lagging behind photoshop which itself can be a clog. A shame since Gimp is a fantastic app.&lt;p&gt;Krita is a complete replacement at this point. And, its features caters to drawing&amp;#x2F;painting to a greater degree than photoshop, by far. The brush engine is phenomenonal and just for this has become my favorite drawing tool.&lt;p&gt;Two tools into one. Snappy fast even on OSX, and feels very much native visually.&lt;p&gt;Tip: Veikk manufactures great 8192 pressure sensitivity A4 size tablets for about 40 to 60 bucks. Packed with extra nibs and everything . Krita and this obscure made of tablets plugged onto a commodity laptop is the best value artist station for all sort of digital work.</text></comment>
<story><title>Krita: A professional free and open source painting program</title><url>https://krita.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmayrgundter</author><text>I used to use Gimp for photoshop type operations but it&amp;#x27;s become unusable for me due to slowness, even with a M1 native build.  No idea what&amp;#x27;s up.&lt;p&gt;Tried Krita and it works great</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scetron</author><text>Agreed. Just made the switch over to Krita from Gimp for some simple workflows. Everything feels much faster across Mac, Windows, and Linux. Also the tools somehow make a bit more sense out of the box.</text></comment>