PhotoFiltre 7 vs Krita

A toolbar at the top of the interface allows quick access to predefined folders that allow quick access to selections, masks, patterns.

It's possible to add to or subtract from a selection using ctrl and alt keys.

Masks (called PhotoMasque in PhotoFiltre) change the alpha channel based on the mask.

The erase tool works like a brush revealing the bottom layer.

Lets you fill in and draw an outline of a selection.

PhotoFiltre supports bitmap, text, settings (gamma, contrast, hue) and color (transparency) vector types.

PhotoFiltre has round, square and oblique line brushes of different sizes and allows custom shapes to be used as brushes. Gradient colors as well as effects such as 3D, pastels, charcoal can be used with brushes.

PhotoFiltre allows selecting via shapes such as rectangle (square and rounded), ellipse, triangle and rhombus, or in a free-form way. Selections can be saved to be used later.

Includes filters that allow adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma as well as stylize the image with watercolor, pastels, Indian ink, pointillism, puzzle effect filters.

All the most used and useful tools are easy to find in Krita's UI and are often just one click away. They are not hidden behind menus or dropdowns.

Krita is getting constant releases with updates and bug fixes. New features are added at a pace that far surpasses the other alternatives.

Krita is completely free and open source. They have raised a couple of successful Kickstarters in the past to get the initial financing and now they are accepting donations.

KDE has a long history of making solid applications.

Krita's preset brushes are one of the default dockers. Each brush has a preview on mouseover that shows a detailed view of the type of brush involved. All the brushes also have useful and descriptive names such as "HP Pencil" or "Textured Fuzzy".

Although the UI is rather busy, Krita is very customizable. The editing window can be themed and the sidebar can be customized extensively throw many dockers or panes.

Tiled view that shows your image tiled in the editor, and permits you to edit it as you are seeing it tiled. If the brush passes out of your texture, it will just automatically wrap back the painting to the other side of the original texture, while permitting you to paint and see the results on any of the tiled "clones" (the shortcut key to activate this is w by default).