<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boud@valdyas.org">boud@valdyas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thursday 24 September 2009, sven.langkamp wrote:<br>
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> Can be solved by experimental and stable branches. Instead of makeing<br>
> experiments in trunk, you would have a seperate testing ground which allows<br>
> to merge new experiments earlier. Ideally we could keep the stable branch<br>
> in releaseable state most of the time.<br>
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</div>I think we can say that all of us agree on this; I'm wondering whether we can<br>
accomplish this before KDE moves to gitorious, for instance, by having our own<br>
gitorious repo and a designated- git-svn repo master who moves the finished<br>
stuff to the kde svn.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I think Krita is somewhere in the middle. There was an very interesting<br>
> video posted by the Durian project:<br>
> <a href="http://durian.blender.org/news/tutorial-painting-time-lapse-by-david-revoy/" target="_blank">http://durian.blender.org/news/tutorial-painting-time-lapse-by-david-revoy/</a><br>
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> It's not only amazing art, but also very interesting from workflow point of<br>
> view (for me as non-artist). I especially noticed how often he switches<br>
> between from MyPaint to Gimp and back. Each time the image needs to be save<br>
> and opened in the other app. I think switching between different<br>
> workspaces/modes would be much better. For example we could have different<br>
> workspaces for painting, image manipulation and vector drawings.<br>
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</div>Wow. That man is _good_. And yes, if we manage to offer what he needs in one<br>
package where he doesn't need to switch, that's a killer feature in itself.<br>
And, provided we fix our performance issues, we can do that. We've got all the<br>
tools around, from alchemy's shapes to gimp's filters to the brush engines.<br>
With a nice slider in the top toolbar to switch between mode, we could give<br>
our users a really nice environment, for instance.<br>
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There are other things I learned from this video: this guy doesn't use<br>
palettes, he just select the right color from the triangle, a lot! mypaint has<br>
some very cool color selectors, but those aren't used, as far as I can see. (I<br>
know that I don't use them either when working in mypaint myself, I just use<br>
the triangle, just like I use the small color selector in Krita).<br>
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He needs high-res, and gimp paints too slow for him; he merges his layers<br>
often and even makes the effor to paint round things in mypaint, where he<br>
doesn't seem to use layers. I think that looks like a limitation judging from<br>
the way he paints, but I cannot be sure, he's so damn good. (Why are all the<br>
best artists french?)<br>
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Can we support this guy's workflow in 2.5? (After Enkithan's artist in 2.4...)<br></blockquote><div><br>With switching the workspaces is sounds a bit like Eclipse for images ;)<br><br>On the same page there are feature requests for mypaint <a href="http://www.davidrevoy.com/temp/mypaint-request/">http://www.davidrevoy.com/temp/mypaint-request/</a><br>
I'm not sure if the merging is due to MyPaint limitations or part of his workflow.<br><br>The ora files on that site looks totally different in Krita btw.<br> <br></div></div><br>