Based on our record, Krita seems to be a lot more popular than Playscii. While we know about 300 links to Krita, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Playscii. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Fairly well known on HN by now but Krita is also excellent and simple image editor and painting app like Photoshop was 20 years ago https://krita.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago
Well, there is Serif's suite: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ (There's also a Photo and page layout app) or the open-source stuff: - https://krita.org/en/ - https://inkscape.org/ - https://www.scribus.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago
These are all valid alternatives with real world use, but none of them are Photoshop, and that's kinda the problem we face. Krita - https://krita.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago
I migrated away from Adobe after Photoshop CS6 which I believe was the last release before they switched over to a subscription only pricing model. If you're looking for a Photoshop alternative to break away from the incredibly user hostile relationship with Adobe I can heartily recommend either Krita (open source) or Pixelmator (Mac only). Pixelmator Pro is my daily driver for image related work and is incredibly... - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago
Check out Krita[0]. It's what I used after leaving Windows - a little different, maybe 25% more complicated, but has everything you need. If you just want a MS Paint replacement, KolourPaint[1] is the way to go [0] https://krita.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
An alternative to your first link: https://jp.itch.io/playscii. Source: over 2 years ago
Oh, and to easily convert images to ANSI-like art on a modern system, use a program called Playscii (https://jp.itch.io/playscii). Source: about 3 years ago
I found this cool ASCII art program on Itch.io called Playscii. After faffing about with it for a while I thought some of the character sets would work well for making maps. So I redrew the map of a Sky Tomb from the Stars Without Number adventure Hard Light. They're not spectacular (I'm still new to visual art) but I think they look super cool. I think this visual style fits really well with the OSR. Source: over 3 years ago
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