[dismalaf]

It's literally what each is designed to do?

"Gnu IMAGE Manipulation Program"

Versus Krita which is very obviously geared towards creation (from scratch) with it's plethora of painting tools. Or Inkscape for vector images.

Same goes for PHOTOshop versus Illustrator...

[robenkleene]

Ah you mean it's a better tool than the GIMP for content creation, not that it's the best tool period. I was confused by lumping Photoshop in there in the original statement. (I'd consider Photoshop more like a combination of Krita and the GIMP [i.e., Photoshop is a raster graphics program with both painting and photo manipulation tools], while Illustrator is more analogous to Inkscape [both vector graphics editors])

[dismalaf]

Well, Krita is easily the best painting tool I've ever used overall. I'd put it above everything for painting/creating raster art. Dunno it it's provable but it's a very, very good tool.

Definitely better than GIMP or PS.