Krita

[harecanada]

Does anyone know why Krita won't work with .gif images? I prefer Krita over Gimp but can't work with .gifs and have to change them with Gimp to jpegs and then when done have to convert them with Gimp back to .gifs.
harecanada

[krazy]

Re: Krita

There's a launchpad bug on this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ice/+bug/71711

[Snowhog]

Re: Krita

Hmm. From the Krita Manual:

Image formats

Krita currently supports the following image formats, both for importing and exporting, apart from its own: PNG, TIFF, JPEG, Dicom, XCF, PSD, GIF, BMP, XPM, Targa, RGB, and OpenEXR. Additionally, Krita can import ICO files. PSD (the Photoshop file format) is only supported up to version 6, from version 7 on, the Photoshop file format is closed.

[Snowhog]

Re: Krita

... have to change them with Gimp to jpegs and then when done have to convert them with Gimp back to .gifs.
harecanada

If you have the package imagemagick installed, you can use the console command convert:

NAME

convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image,
blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much
more.

SYNOPSIS
convert input-file [options] output-file


OVERVIEW

The convert program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools.
Use it to convert between image formats as well as resize an image,
blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much
more.

For more information about the convert command, point your browser to
file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.7/www/convert.html or
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php.

[harecanada]

Re: Krita

Adept says that imagemagik is installed but I can't find it on my system*&&*&&^%%$#
Not sure what to do. I read the bug report and it's the same for me in that when I go to save an image, there is no option to save as gif.
harecanada

[harecanada]

Re: Krita

Thought I would add this. Dolphin converts anything in my picture file to jpeg,png,gif,or tif!!!
This is too easy. Doesn't handle the why behind Krita not working with gifs but almost makes the problem redundant.
harecanada

[Troberg]

Re: Krita

Just one small advice: If you are going to bounce a file through another format, don't use JPG. JPG is a lossy format, so you will lose quality. I'd suggest PNG, TIFF or BMP instead.

[Nate]

Re: Krita

As for imagemagick, what happens when you type "convert" on the command line? If something happens then imagemagick is working normally. As far as I know, imagemagick is just a suite of command line tools that can also be used by gui apps.

[Snowhog]

Re: Krita

Introduction to ImageMagick

[alpinist]

Re: Krita

Just one small advice: If you are going to bounce a file through another format, don't use JPG. JPG is a lossy format, so you will lose quality. I'd suggest PNG, TIFF or BMP instead.

That's true, but if you use jpg with only 1% compression it is not very lossy and is still only about half the size of tiff.

[harecanada]

Re: Krita

Thanks for the help. I'll have to look into all this.