So if you’re a Krita expert and I’ve missed something important in this comparison, please let me know in the comments!

I should say from the start that I’m not nearly as familiar with Krita as I am with GIMP, because my connection to the world of digital art comes through photography and photo editing rather than any skill with a pencil or paintbrush (either real or digital). Instead, I’ll break down the strengths and weaknesses of each program, and help you decide which program is best for your particular project! It’s typically used by artists working with precision input devices known as drawing tablets that offer much better control than a mouse, including tilt and pressure sensitivity.īecause GIMP and Krita are designed for different uses, it doesn’t really seem fair to compare them directly the way I usually do in these “versus” guides. Krita is also a raster image editor, but it is designed from the ground up to focus exclusively on digital drawing. It’s typically used for photo editing and image manipulation, but it also has some decent brush-based tools for creating complex artistic projects from scratch. GIMP is a general-purpose raster image editor that excels at the most common editing tasks. They’re both open-source image editors that are in active development, but they each have their own unique areas of specialization within the world of digital imagery. GIMP and Krita are two of the most popular free graphics programs available at the moment.

Krita brush sensitivity