Action plan 2

[Cyrille Berger]

On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> I think it makes no sense to not do it that way because Photoshop does it.
> I think that the grayscale version has some advantages over the current
> solution, e.g. gradients work better. Both version have their problem. I'm
> open for suggestions, but I think there is no ideal solution.
The biggest problem of the current approach is that it is not easy to draw 
transparency. But it is a general problem that we have with normal painting 
too.

Take a "blank" artist that has not being distorted by photoshop use, and ask 
him what is opaque or what is transparent, black or white, white or black ? 
Which is my main issue with grayscale mask, it does not make any sense to use 
a color to map transparency.

For the gradient, I can only suggest a convert to alpha option. Currently it 
should use the alpha part of a gradient (I wanted to test if that was working 
but for some reasons masks seems totally broken on my old trunk checkout).

-- 
Cyrille Berger