gsoc: colour choosers

[LukasT.dev@gmail.com]

On Wednesday 31 March 2010 04:18:19 Adam wrote:
> hi,
> here is the current text of my gsoc proposal, request for comments..
> 
> II) PROJECT GOALS
> During this GSoC I would deliver a docker, which can be configured to show
> all or only some of this things:
> A configurable colour selector with the following options
> Options for shape of the selector
> eg: Rings with picker, squares, wheels, mixing sliders
> Pipette
> Menu with additional options (see below)
> Old and new colour
> Details can be found in a mockup [1]
> Ring of harmonic colours
> 
> A selector similar to the one of MyPaint ([2])
> It shows shades of the current colour.
> 
> Shades of current colour for quick access in a seperate widget, shown like
> patches, so it would use less space, than the mypaint selector. The number
> of shades will be configurable.
> 
> Common colours in the image.
> There will be an algorithm, which takes the x mostly used colours in the
> current image and display them. This lets artists work with an existing
> “image's colour palette” and so they don't have to create it by hand.
> Colour patches, that can be attached to the selectors in a space saving
> way (no need of another docker, that needs too much space).
> A palette with presets and GHNS integration
> 
> I plan to create a docker and a popup that is available ether through the
> quick sketch palette ([3]) or a shortcut, so that it is available quickly
> with the mouse or the stylus.
> The selector will only show colours from the current colourspace, so there
> won't be a difference between the selected colour and the one drawn on the
> canvas anymore. In [7] and [8] you can see the difference between the CMYK
> (printing) and RGB (monitor) color space, green and cyan are not as
> intense in CMYK. This is very important to everybody, who wants to print.
> There will be a switch to enable a red yellow blue mode, which gives
> certain colours, that are met in real life often, more space [4].
> There will be drag n drop and the widgets should be hideable, resizeable
> and space efficient.
> For KOffice apps, that don't need as much options, as Krita, there will be
> also be a cut back version as a new colour dialogue.

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