Krita vs Clip Studio Paint

Over the years digital paintings and graphic images gained a lot of popularity due to their use in clickable web ads, creating banners, online marketing and advertising etc. Photo editing, manipulation and creation have always been tough tasks for designers so a lot of IT organizations released different photo editing software to ease this task. People often get confused in choosing the right software so we will compare two famous photo editing and image manipulation software, Clip Studio Paint and Krita. Both of these softwares are very advance and provide a large number of robust tools to ease designing tasks.

Krita is computer software which is used to edit and create raster graphics. It is open-source software and is used in animation and digital painting applications. It was developed by Krita Foundation. Initially, it was released in 2005 and its stable version came in 2022. It is developed using C++ and Qt programming languages. It provides a simple user interface. It supports various operating systems like Windows, macOS, Linux, Android etc.

Advantages of Krita

• It is open-source software so it has large community support.
• It comes with a large number of brushes which help in creating complex digital artwork.
• It allows 2D animation and image editing in an easy manner.
• It comes with drag and drop functionality to ease the animation process.
• It comes with free customizable templates.

Limitations of Krita

• The layer managing features of Krita is confusing.
• It provides basic image editing features.
• Digital asset management is difficult in this software.

Clip Studio Paint is computer software used for creating illustrations, digital comics, 2d animation etc. It is also known as Kurisuta in Japan as it is developed by a Japanese company. Initially, it was released in 2001 and its stable version was launched in 2022. It is developed using C++ and Python programming languages. It supports various operating systems like Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android etc.

Advantages of Clip Studio Paint

• It comes with a simple and easy-to-use interface.
• It supports a large number of image types to edit.
• It allows frame by frame animation process.
• It is compatible with mobile devices also. 

Disadvantages of Clip Studio Paint

• It does not allow audio in animations.
• Text and font features are limited.

Following is a table of differences between Krita and Clip Studio Paint:

	Krita	Clip Studio Paint
1.	It can be defined as an image editing and manipulation software for raster graphics.	It can be understood as a comic creator, animation and image editing software.
2.	It was developed by Krita Foundations.	It was developed by  Celsys Incorporation.
3.	It is available in fewer languages like English, Japanese, French and Russian	It is available in 7 languages.
4.	It is open-source software.	It is not open-source software.
5.	It is built using C++ and Qt programming languages.	It is built using C++ and Python programming languages.
6.	It is completely free software.	It is a paid software which costs $49.99 for a lifetime.
7.	It is available for Linux and Android systems along with Windows and MacOS.	It is available for Windows, Mac operating systems, iOS, android etc but does not support Linux systems.
8.	Its files are saved with the .kra extension.	Its files are saved with the .clip extension.