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[everythingdigitips]

drawing apps/softwares---my experiences

[part 2] || from a pov of a user but not a pro

☁ krita

✧ pros:

F R E E krita is free! downloading it from its official website is free. who doesn't like FREE?? very simple it is the most simplest and easy to use software for me as its tools are easy to navigate and easy to understand. it is arranged like photoshop's tool bar on the left side tons of brushes there are ton of default brushes available and variations you can choose. default brushes were already amazing!! shortcut menu I remember using it with my old graphic tablet and there is a shortcut tab/menu wherein you can easily switch from any tool

✧ cons:

tool bar on top I find it complicated even though there are just a few tools/icons available on the tool bar at the top brushes importing brushes is very complicated for me tho, i love its default brushes but sometimes I want to use a specific brush and customize it but I don't know how well, I tried copying from a yt tutorial but it's too hard for me to understand inserting text inserting text is quite a hassle for me as typing a text is not directly being placed at the paper/canvas but it will be written on a text editing window

these reviews are not that plenty because I didn't used krita for a long time. I just used it because its free and the default brushes were amazing! i luv their textures

I tried paint tool sai before but I can't give much reviews from it since I didn't explore it much and used it for long since I switched to clip studio paint. i think krita and paint tool sai are more similar to each other consequently, part 3 is clip studio paint!

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^^meow

[everythingdigitips]

drawing apps/softwares---my experiences

[part 1] || from a pov of a user but not a pro

☁ photoshop

✧ pros:

blending modes it is available & easy to navigate! holy grail feature luv this for adding some textures & filters layer effects & styles very helpful & easy to use *press F7 to show layers on your screen shortcut keys default keys working & easy to memorize I find its shortcut keys the "universal/standard" as SOME are applicable to other adobe software and other drawing software as well brushes easy to import (any brushes in ABR file), can download from any website for FREE (ofc better brushes can be bought online), if you want to make a custom/personalized brush, you can create your own! I tried this and it is very easy, there are useful tutorials on yt (ofc its FREE! yes, I love everything that is F R E E !) warp/skew/distort/perspective YES, these are available in ps! that's why ps is the GOAT makes our life easier! i luv these features! can use these for retouching text i love how you can choose the font you want and filter them from sans serif to serif fonts--oh! and also other classes like handwritten, monospace, decorative and more you can also write inside a shape (any shape) and the text box will follow its shape. VERY VERSATILE INDEED PS. I insert texts for watermarks and labels for my drawings if you're wondering pen pressure settings you can adjust pen pressure settings on ps as well

there are more features that I love about ps but some are more into editing side. So far, here are the good points I like about ps when it comes to drawing

✧ cons:

experienced lag I don't know if it is just my old drawing tablet (a graphic tablet) before but when I increased my paper size, strokes of my pen is lagging in which caused me to switch to other drawing software well, I tried using it again but with my pen display tablet I bought recently and it works fine now! complicated for non-techie person i've been using ps since 2018 so I am much familiar to shortcut keys now and its basic tools but my friends using it the first time are having a hard time so I think it's a complicated software for non-techie people & beginners and if you'll just use it for drawing software size i checked mine, its about 6GB on my pc ps needs a pc that could take its huge file size

I love ps, and its versatility. you can do a lot of things here and if you master using its features, I bet you'll be unreachable!

storytime:

before ps, I used photopea website around 2015-2016. (photopea.com) it's an online version of photoshop but this doesn't have recovery files so if your computer lagged and exited its tab, you're DEAD. Although it has peadrive/onedrive/googledrive you can access for storage (I'm not sure). I haven't tried this using a drawing tab. Moreover, it's a good alternative for ps and helped me a lot for my projects during high school. I checked it today and it's still available!

see! this also have a layer styles like ps!! try it if your pc can't run ps this also supports psd, gimp files, raw files, ai files & moree!!! luv it!

--------to be cont. for part 2 ^^meow