[archerx]

I love Krita it is a great free open source photoshop replacement and does photo editing better than Gimp. People will say Krita is a digital painting program but it still goes photo editing in a much less frustrating way than gimp.

[BeetleB]

I agree it's less frustrating than Gimp, but as someone who did a lot of photoediting in the latter, Krita's abilities do not really compare with Gimp's. Last time I checked (admittedly years ago), there was no equivalent of Liquid Rescale in Krita. Nor was there smart object removal capability. I think the options for dealing with noise were quite limited, as well.

[k_sze]

Krita and GIMP serve different purposes, even though they have some overlapping functionality.

My understanding is that Krita is really for digital drawing, closer to Corel PaintShop Pro; whereas GIMP is for image editing, closer to Photoshop.