[pxc]

Before Krita was 'marketed' as a digital painting app, it was described and used as an alternative to GIMP and Photoshop.

At some point (in the 2010s?) there was a decision to refocus on digital painting, I think maybe because of the difficulty of keeping up with the expansive featureset of something like Photoshop or GIMP (and maybe the additional difficulty of still keeping a focused, pleasant UI).

But it's not like the developers removed a bunch of functionality. It's cool to hear that Krita remains capable of handling some heavy duty photo editing use cases.

[hallarempt]

Nah, the change was mostly because painting is what I'm most interested in, and I was -- and am -- the maintainer :-)

[smcnally]

WebP improvements, “New Storyboarding Tools and Workflow“ and new Timeline Docker all look amazing. Brava to you and the team. Thanks

https://krita.org/en/krita-5-0-release-notes/

[pxc]

Thanks for the correction. :)

And wow, you've been the maintainer for a very long time!

Thanks for your work. Imo Krita's design is a model for KDE productivity apps.