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My favorite in this space has always been Paint.net, but it is Windows only. I tried Krita a couple years back and it was too buggy to become my OSX alternative
by aaanotherhnfolk 6y ago
My favorite in this space has always been Paint.net, but it is Windows only. I tried Krita a couple years back and it was too buggy to become my OSX alternative. But reading in this announcement that they've spent a year focusing on bugfixes warrants giving them another try.
- dgellow 6y agoIf you find that Krita doesn't work for you, you may want to try MyPaint, it's also a cool open source project
- morganvachon 6y agoThere is a Linux-first clone of Paint.net called Pinta[1], but development stalled a few years ago[2] and the lead developer was asking for contributions to the codebase as of six months ago[3]. It has since been pulled from several distros' repositories, though it can of course still be built from source. It was a fantastic alternative to Paint.net when it was in development, but the last official release was quite buggy. Thankfully, work has resumed on it[4] and hopefully it will have another stable release soon. [1] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ [2] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/releases/1-6 https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/releases/1-6 [3] https://communiroo.com/PintaProject/pinta/discussions/370/pinta-was-great-now-non-functional https://communiroo.com/PintaProject/pinta/discussions/370/pi... [4] https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pinta-daily https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pin... On the other side, I can say that Krita has definitely improved over the years; it's stable enough now for me to use at work as a Photoshop alternative on Windows (though I still do most light editing in Paint.net).
- tti 6y agoPaint.net’s my favorite too, I wish more software animated the selected area and had their interface in small windows.