If you use Photoshop for a living then the cost of Photoshop is very negligible so unless Krita in the future has some killer feature and becomes a lot better than Photoshop then there is no reason for the pros to switch to Krita, it's just not worth it. Now, I'm not saying Photoshop is worth it because the problem with subscription model is that let's say in 10 or 20 years time you want to open any of your photoshop files you will need to subscribe to an adobe plan again. On top of that you can also claim it as a business expense for tax write-off.
You also get free adobe portfolio that you can host your own website for your portfolio, it's good enough if you just want a clean website to show your work, that alone probably save you around 30 bucks a year if you decided to host your website somewhere else. Even Photoshop is not very expensive, Photography plan will cost you around 120 bucks a year and you get Photoshop and Lightroom on all you devices, 20gb cloud storage you can use to sync your files between devices, free fonts. The biggest factor that stop Krita to become popular and probably will never become popular in digital art industry is because there are so many other apps you can get for very cheap that just as good if not better like CSP, Procreate, Affinity suite.
Talk about it, share your art if you can, anything to get the name out. So really, all I'm saying is Krita just needs more vocal people to help push that bubble out. They made demos, films, VFX, sculpts, everything they could, and eventually it got in the ears of the right people who spread the message around that "hey, this free tool is actually really good!" It is making huge waves in the industry now and probably going to de-throne a number of big software pretty soon if it keeps going like that, but it took 20 years and it only happened after (admittedly) a complete makeover, and people really being willing to push the limits of what the software could do, and showcasing it all. Just think of Blender for example (am a 3D artist). Then there's the very painterly software users (Corel Draw, ArtRage, Rebel, etc.) who were also after specific things.īc Krita is newer there haven't been many people a) aware of it existing b) proving the capabilities they were looking for in practice yet/lack of reach/sharing outside the Krita bubble CSP has a lot of features optimized for comic making, so it attracted a lot of people off that space (and possibly took a bunch from SAI too for the less expensive version, just bc of the style). People used Photoshop bc back in the day it was THE software for everything painting/retouching (and one time buy too). It mostly boils down to reach and marketing really.
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