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  Full Tilt for Krita!
Graphics and Art Posted by Boudewijn Rempt on Monday 28/May/2007, @04:38
from the pendalino dept.
Krita development is in a crucial phase, we are adding fun, useful and amazing stuff at a stunning rate. But there are things that no Krita developer can do, because we lack the proper hardware. Krita's renaissance started with a simple Wacom Graphire tablet, and it led to some great new possibilities. But to implement support for modern tablet features like tilt and stylus rotation we need to buy more advanced tablets and art pens, and to make that possible, we need your help!

The tablet that started it all

It all started with this simple tablet, but now, to make Krita support modern painting features like stylus tilt, rotation and airbrush rate we need a set of more advanced tablets. And those are costly!

Ideally we would have at least two Intuos tablets, the size does not matter much for development, with two 6D art markers (for rotation) and two airbrushes (for rate). We need two tablets because that way two developers can hack and test each others work. That way we will not have the "but it worked for me" situations right after a release that we all hate so much!

And we do not want to wait too long: to get these features out with KOffice 2.0, and not delay the release, work has to start soon. In fact, Emanuale Tamponi, our Google Summer of Code student working on natural painting has almost finished his preliminary research and is panting to start coding! Thus we ask you, our users, if you value Krita and want us to develop innovative, first-grade painting and drawing capabilities, please help us out!

We have asked the KDE e.V. to aid us with the financial-service part, and you can donate on the KDE Donation page. If you donate through the button below your donations will be automatically tagged for Krita. If you donate through a bank order or US cheque, please mention it is for Krita.

And do not worry, if there is more money than we need for tablets, it will be spent for Krita, for instance by getting the Krita developers to Warsaw for the 2008 Libre Graphics Meeting.



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german paypal
by Patcito on Monday 28/May/2007, @04:51
When I click on th Make a Donation button it leads me to the german paypal. Anyway to make it to the local paypal site?
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Donated!
by Anon on Monday 28/May/2007, @04:51
Donated 30 Euros; I hope others will do the same!
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digg it!
by Patcito on Monday 28/May/2007, @05:55
http://digg.com/software/Help_the_Krita_Team
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2008 Libre Graphics Meeting
by Zbyszek on Monday 28/May/2007, @06:39
Hey, I live in Warsow, and I dont't know anything about Libre Graphics Meeting. Is there any website I can get info about it?
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10 Euros here
by Anon on Monday 28/May/2007, @06:52
10 Euros from me, I wish you all the best!
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&#8364;20 from me!
by Joergen Ramskov on Monday 28/May/2007, @07:41
Go Krita! Keep up the good work :)
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Out of curiosity...
by Matt on Monday 28/May/2007, @07:46
Just out of curiosity, how much does this tablet cost? I didn't even know things like these existed until I saw a Wacom at the Apple Store a couple years ago or so, and I've been interested in them ever since.
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Any additional way to help too?
by Jure Repinc on Monday 28/May/2007, @08:04
Is there any additional way we can help with the development. I'm asking this because my sister has a Wacom tablet (Graphire4 or something like that). So is there any other way she can help?
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15 euro from me
by cookiem on Tuesday 29/May/2007, @00:58
I like Krita :)
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Ask Wakom
by Max on Tuesday 29/May/2007, @05:56
Hi,

have you asked Wacom for tablets?
I know that the Gimp developers got one or two from Wacom some time ago. Perhaps you can ask Sven or Simon for the contact.
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I don't have a graphics tablet...
by Simon on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @04:36
... but I might one day and I use Krita so supporting it is well deserved.

20 euro on its way
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Somethings
by Ben on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @10:03
Somethings broken in the world of open source. Couldn't you get the pad as a gift from the hardware manufacturer?
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Why wacom?
by Fri13 on Thursday 31/May/2007, @03:52
Why only supported tablet for linux seems to be only Wacom? There are alot good tablets and even cheaper.

Like http://trust.com/products/default.aspx?cat=_Current&grp=TABLETS&type=12X9-INCH&item=14070

I buyed one for my sister who used windows. On that time it didnt work on linux. After OpenSUSE 10.2 i tryed it again and it got reconized and worked as normal mouse. But pressing dont work as should (512 levels).

And it is good tablet, draws straight line with ruler and works great (on windows side ;-)).

And it is very cheap for A4+ size, only 75 euros so many art students could afford it.
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Sorry..
by Amy Rose on Friday 01/Jun/2007, @00:02
I wish I had money, but I don't. When I have money, I'd like to donate ^^;
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A good thing to donate for
by soriac on Friday 01/Jun/2007, @00:16
"Natural painting" is still one of the things I'd like to see on the OpenSource segment. I hope someday it will be a good alternative to CorelPainter. And if it's this promising as krita or the whole koffice package, I don't have a doubt about this ;-). This is definitely worth a donation.
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Does anybody even use Krita?
by Scott on Friday 01/Jun/2007, @16:35
Every time I'm at http://kde-look.org, the artists there say they created their work with The GIMP (or Inkscape in the case of SVG - leaving Karbon14 in the cold as well).

I've yet to come across anybody anywhere (outside of this thread I suppose) who actually says they use Krita.

I've got no artistic talent so I barely use any of this stuff. :)

Personally I think you should hit up the Trolltech folks for donations. :)
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Natural Paint Lover
by Darth Omnious on Sunday 01/Jul/2007, @21:50
I don't have the funds now to donate but really want too. Before I discovered Krita I had to rely on painter for my painting.IMO-GIMP = Photoshop (style) and Krita = Corel Painter (style) and I prefer Painter's style over Photoshop's anyday. Oh and for the person wondering who uses Krita, I do. As well as Inkscape, Karbon, Blender,and a plethora of other gfx apps. To the developers PLEASE ADD A CUSTOMIZABLE WAY (HOTKEY) TO RESIZE YOUR BRUSH SIZE INTERACTIVELY (i.e.like painter (so I can finally ditch windows ;-) )

Oh and the color mixer would be cool too :D
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