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krita-ai-diffusion
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Acly / krita-ai-diffusion

krita-ai-diffusion

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

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24Mentions
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10.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

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This week on Hacker News

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Observed mentions: 2023-11-20 05:22:12 UTC to 2026-01-31 03:09:53 UTC.

01232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsNov 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2026

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What Hacker News says

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We found running a recent Intel pen tablet is nice for some applications like the full blender plugin ecosystem support, commercial and free offerings. Some treasure: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases https://krita.org/en/ Avoid in commercial use-case: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion Seems ridiculous, but the 2nd paid seat you get works well for portable non-intensive tasks: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve The perpetual CSP or CS/EX license for iPad/MS Surface/Wacom is pretty much a necessity for the users, as in a commercial setting it is the only practical option for many use-cases (Wacom often included a free 2 year trial): https://www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/ --- Blender plugins: "Blob fusion" similar to ZSpheres with Metaballs/SDFs: https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/ahwvli 3D Nor
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In Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening
this is semi-relevant -- and I do love how technically amazing this all is, but a massive caveat for someone who's been dabbling hard in this space, (images+video) -- I cannot emphasize enough how draining text-2-<whatever> is. even when a result comes out that's kind of cool, I feel nothing because it wasn't really me who did it. I would say 97% of the time, the results are not what I want (and of course that's the case, it's just textual input) and so I change the text slightly, and a whole new thing comes out that is once again incorrect, and then I sit there for 5minutes while some new slop churns out of the slop factory. All of this back and forth drains not only my wallet/credits, but my patience and my soul. I really don't know how these "tools" are ever supposed to help creatives, short of generating short form ad content that few
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people really only want to work on anyway. So far the only products spawning from these tools are tiktok/general internet spam companies. The closest thing that I've bumped into that actually feels like it empowers artists is https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion that plugs into Krita and uses a combination of img2img with masking and txt2img. A slightly more rewarding feedback loop
In Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
The reason that Adobe can do AI gen "out of the box" is because you're paying for it (Firefly). If GIMP were to implement it, they'd probably have to go the same route as Krita and either spin up or call out to a running instance of Automatic1111 or ComfyUI. https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion MCP would be cool, but it would be significantly harder than Blender which can represent the "world" as a formal set of expressions. MCP for GIMP would be dealing with layers of rasterized data which would mean integrating with YOLO/LLava/etc in order to make sense of it. It would be neat, but it'd be a daunting integration and potentially VERY VERY slow.
In GIMP 3.0
Yes, these are largely prototyping tools. I'm not fond of Invoke's "professional" pitch in particular, this workflow would feel alien for any actual creative. However AI CGI is more like 3D CGI in the sense that you have to get technical and understand what you're doing. There are a bit more competent tools in this busted-tool world if you want to get things done, e.g.: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion . It still a nerdy tool and has way more friction than necessary, with all this python hell (it uses Comfy as a backend, although it's somewhat automated). It's far from being as easy as Adobe's Firefly.
In InstantStyle: Free Lunch Towards Style-Preserving in Text-to-Image Generation

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