Original sentence: As of 2006, many plugins written over the years for these other applications were not yet available for Krita.It been influenced to an extent by Corel Painter.Krita's design emphasizes creating new images as opposed to manipulating existing photographs.Notable features found in the 1.5 release include CMYK, L*a*b and many more colorspaces, with bit depths from 8 to 32 bits per channel
Edited sentence: In the 1.5 release, Krita received some features not available in most other free software graphics projects like GIMP, such as CMYK, L*a*b and many more colorspaces, with bit depths from 8 to 32 bits per channel (the GIMP is still limited to 8 bits per channel).Krita has a stronger focus on creating new images as opposed to manipulating existing photographs and has been influenced to an extent by Corel Painter.Krita is comparable to other bitmap graphics editors, such as The GIMP or Adobe Photoshop, and has already matched several of their more useful features, and surpassed it in other areas.Many plugins written over the years for these other applications are also not (yet) available for Krita.Note that these mentioned applications are much older and mature, and therefore Krita should not yet be expected to be as optimized and fast as these programs