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Illustrators, graphic designers, cartoonists and creative drawing enthusiasts. Krita is made for both the amateur and the professional artist or draughtsman.
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Also, its fantastic community is such a lovely place to be. Using Krita was definitely a pleasant experience for me, with some hiccups, that are bound to be fixed.
Frequent lags, non-detection of the pen, pressure sensitivity issues all plauged me, and eventually I had to move somewhere else.
This program works perfectly with a drawing pad and is so simple to get up and going, the brushes selection is great and the final results look amazing.
First, the documentation is lacking. Sometimes it's just what you expect, but because they are constantly adding features for some features the documentation is missing entirely.
It has been an overall excellent experience. I love using this software, its so easy and intuitive.
I dislike the fact that I had to find external plugins to export animations as videos.
It has a very good selection of brushes and tools. It's great that the software is free, so it can help beginners in design and vector drawing to start their careers for free.
Bit of a learning curve, especially if you have never used a similar product. Lags sometimes on my PC.
I love that just by learning the pen tool you can get amazing results, and the native integration with the adobe suite makes working along photoshop so easy.
It is difficult to really know if features are missing from the software or if in fact, it is missing from my knowledge of how to use it.
Great design/illustration software with a huge community of support and resources behind it. All the tools you need to create stunning graphics.
The process that was difficult to use was when saving back to a legacy format some complexity of file can be lost however that is to be expected of any software.
The best quality of Adobe Illustrator is definitely the fact that it allows you to work in vector and therefore to produce something quality is that it will not be grainy in printing.
Hard to get the tools to do what you want if you're not experienced. Also has AWFUL file size problems.
But with great flexibility, comes great complexity. So, therefore, even though I have a pretty good understanding of how to use Illustrator, there's still more for me to learn after many years.
Occasional updates in the software can be a little frustrating as adjusting to new features can cause disruption in my work.
Isabel S.: Hi, I'm Isabel. I work as a portrait artist. I am giving a number five out of five review for Adobe Illustrator. For more reviews like, this click below. Before Illustrator, I was using Paint and it was awful. I am not the best at drawing and I needed help with it. I just felt like, "Oh, my gosh, I'm going to have to spend hours and hours and hours getting better at drawing just to get better at Paint." Then, I discovered Illustrator and all of its quirks and features and greatness. I was like, "Oh, my gosh. I am going to stick with this." With all the problems that I was having with Paint and then the quick things that I needed to make, when I discovered that Adobe Illustrator goes and helps you to create those graphics to look nice, I was like, "Oh, my gosh, this is just a total game changer. It makes my life so much easier." I was just like, "I'm using this for the rest of my life, because this is easy." For me, it was really easy to get started with Adobe Illustrator. I'm really familiar with Photoshop. Illustrator works really similar to Photoshop. It just has a little bit of different tools to help you more purposely with drawing. Photoshop, you end up painting and you play with different levels and different colorations that are in there. You can do those same type of things with Illustrator, it's just Illustrator has really been made to help you with drawing that thing out and getting it to look good, and especially if you're a graphic designer or something like that, it's much better for that than Photoshop is. Yeah, for me, it was easy. There was a small learning curve, but because I already knew Photoshop, it really wasn't too bad. If you're considering Adobe Illustrator and you're doing things like graphic design, a lot of things that are simple to print or that's going to be on the internet, Illustrator is definitely the way to go. It seems to be the industry standard. It's simple to use, especially if you've been used to the Adobe Suite. When you open it up, and if you've been playing with any of the other Adobe programs that are there, it's going to feel familiar. Yes, I would definitely suggest going ahead and getting it over other methods if you're not the greatest illustrator on the planet, because it will definitely help you with all of those things, give you more options than you ever even knew were possible.
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