Krita AI Diffusion vs Frame.io
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Krita's AI plugin stays first to support every new open image model, from Flux 2 to Anima.
Krita AI Diffusion is a mature, fast-moving ComfyUI-backed plugin shipping near-monthly. Each release pairs support for the latest open diffusion models with steady refinement of the inpaint/selection pipeline and cross-platform install handling across CUDA, ROCm, and macOS.
Across these releases the plugin absorbed Flux 2, Z-Image, Qwen, ERNIE, and Anima, wiring each into Krita's selection, control-layer, and custom-workflow machinery. The direction is clear: be the fastest on-ramp for new diffusion models inside a real painting app, while smoothing the rough edges of local install and editing.
Anima is still in training and preview; expect it to graduate to official support with the full set of control modes, and for the project to keep absorbing new open models as they land. The just-added ROCm path suggests further AMD/hardware-support polish ahead.
Frame.io dissolves into Creative Cloud while broadening the formats it reviews.
Frame.io is running two arcs at once under Adobe. It is integrating ever more tightly into Creative Cloud — a first-class slot in Adobe's Top App Bar, zero-click authentication inside Premiere, and access to Frame.io assets from Firefly Boards — while expanding the asset types it can review, adding first-class 3D support and a comparison viewer with pixel-level diffing. Enterprise governance (role-based Share download controls) and localization (Japanese) round out the recent work.
The destination is to be the default review-and-approval layer for all Adobe creative work, across every format. The Adobe-surface integrations remove friction for the Creative Cloud base and make Frame.io the path of least resistance for those users. The format expansion — 3D as a first-class citizen alongside video and imagery — widens the kinds of teams that can standardize on it without learning new tools.
Expect deeper Adobe surface integrations and more first-class formats with AI-assisted review; the current betas (3D, Firefly Boards, Japanese, zero-click auth) are the likely next graduations to general availability.
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