Brush spacing / rotate / scale

[david powell]

On Monday 12 November 2007 05:26:47 Valerie VK wrote:
> From the user point of view though, size, opacity, angle, spacing
> etc, they're all the same types of functionality. Sure, you can
> explain to users the technical differences, but in real life the
> user picks up a tool and varies the "parameters" from there (angle,
> spacing for dots, how hard they press ie size and opacity).
> It took me a while to understand why developers don't put them in
> the same place. Even then, a unified editor is plain handy.
>
> For some parameters, users may not want them to apply
> across brushes (parameters such as size and angle. I actually get
> this problem with the new Gimp brush re-sizer: I scale down a non-
> generic brush, then it took me a while to understand why my generic
> round-brush was 0.5 pixels when in the editor it's 5 pixels. Eh),
> but they could be given an option in either the brush editor as
> a check box or in preferences. That's about it though.
>
> I can come up with a few mock-up proposals of my own, if you don't
> mind that is. I'm sure the rest of you are working on enough
> improvements as is.
>
> Another thing that would be great would be a nicer brush, texture,
> gradient (etc) management systems. Perhaps a pop-up panel where
> on the left you have the list of available brushes from one
> collection (and you can switch from collection to collection), and
> to the right a "custom" collection where you can add your most
> commonly used brushes for easy access. These are what would then
> appear in the current brush selector, while the other collections
> are still accessible, but through drop-downs and other longer lists.
> This is preferable to having to wade through hundreds of brushes
> at any given time though.
>
> Also helpful would be:
> - shortcuts to resize brushes besides the automatically generated ones
> - or at least shortcuts to toggle between brushes of the same type,
> but just different sizes (for example, if a watercolor brush comes
> in 5 different sizes, you can toggle between them with a shortcut)
> - or shortcuts to toggle between the brushes in your current default
> collection (after you get a way to easily manage brush collections
> that is)
>
> For the two last ones, a way to combine them in a management system
> could be:
> - Brush 1: size 1, size 2, etc.
> - Brush 2: size 1, size 2, etc.
for painting / drawing then fixed brush sizes are ok
but for image/photo touch-up you need it a bit more dinamic


but when you have a brush that changes size based on presure etc 
then you end up recalculating for every point of the stroke anyway 

so a resize should not realy be a noticable performance hit 


> ...
>
> This would be a way around forcing the program to compute for a
> resized brush. I'm not sure how difficult something like that is
> to write, but it did take Gimp long enough to implement brush
> scaling, so I'll assume it isn't that easy to write. Basically,
> once you have arranged everything, "horizontal" toggling
> changes size, "vertical" toggling changes form. Things like these
> will become very useful once Krita expands even more on its "natural
> media" capabilities and people need to start managing hundreds of
> brushes.
>
yet more 

a lot of work maybe but i seem to think 

that the addition of a wizard to setup / generate  brushes may be a good 
idea , for uses that don't understand all the parameters and what they do 
and includes some text to that explain them as it goes though the process

if it a wizard is to built in for this may i suggest that it has 2 modes
1 that takes the user though each step 
and 
1 that just displays a big dialog window where all brush properties 
are displayed and changeable  

this would provide a easy to get to method for managing brushes also
while letting the user quickly select one of the many brushes and 
adjust any property to get the one he wants without having to route around
to find the property they want to change 

now ok so it may have some issues with redrawing the screen after the 
window closes but theres still the normal "detachable tabs" as normal 
that may be used anyway  

dave
 
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