What Is Krita? Krita is often described as the open-source answer to Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop for digital painting. But that undersells it. Krita was built from the ground up for one thing: painting. Not photo editing, not graphic design — painting. Version 5.2 is the most polished release yet, with brush engines that […]

GIMP 2.10 was first released in 2018. Seven years, countless plugin updates, and three release candidates later — GIMP 3.0 is finally here. And it was worth the wait. This is not a minor refresh. The jump from 2.10 to 3.0 is the biggest in GIMP’s history. Under the hood it has been rebuilt on […]

We’ve all been there. The subscription renewal email hits your inbox, and you realise you’re paying another £100+ a year for software you barely use half the features of. Here’s the thing: most of us don’t actually need paid software. We think we do because that’s what came pre-installed, or that’s what everyone else uses. […]