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		basisword on March 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compet... I thought they were different tools. GIMP == Photoshop, Krita == Illustrator.

ZiiS on March 26, 2024 [–]

Krita defaults to a "Paint Layer" behaving very like Photoshop; it can also add "Vector Layers" that behave like Illustrator. I think it is fair to say it replaces both for a lot of use cases. GIMP is much closer to just Photoshop (and say Inkscape is much more only Illustrator).

basisword on March 26, 2024 | [–]

Interesting! I'll have to check it out.

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