Blending-modes brainstorming

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 Jul, Silvio Heinrich wrote:
> On 07/03/2011 07:51 AM, JL VT wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:55 AM, David REVOY <davidrevoy at gmail.com 
> > <mailto:davidrevoy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     I just had an idea about how to make the usage of all those great
> >     blending mode easier for the user, so I did the sketch under to
> >     share :
> >     Feel free to comments,
> >
> >     picture :
> >     http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/krita/2011-07-01_blending-modebrainstorming.jpg
> >
> > The more customization, the more the user can adapt the program to 
> > behave just like he wants (sort of "making his own version of the 
> > program").
> > I like it, looks straightforward and easy to understand. I'd add an 
> > entry to access it to the Configure Krita dialog too.
> >
> 
> Wait, please. I actually was working on this but it isn't finished yet.
> I won't remove any blending mode entry from the list but instead make 
> the blending mode categories expandable and collapsible (That actually 
> works right now... maybe nobody noticed :D). Than I want to add another 
> category on top of the list called "favorites" or something and a button 
> next to each blending mode to add it to the favorite section. Then you 
> can collapse all other sections and have only the "favorites" section open.
> 
> I really would like to not remove any mode out of the list. It would 
> make the whole process of experimenting with the modes more complicated 
> because the user would need to add every mode he wants to use manually. 
> And since I think that the majority of the users wont know what each 
> mode is doing, they need to experiment with them.
> 
> The collapse state of the sections needs of course to be saved that 
> after a restart not every section is open again.
> Please be a bit patient... everything will come to an happy end :D
> 


what would help a lot, I think is to have a tooltip or bubble that shows the effect of the blending mode, perhaps using the images Alexey did for the forum.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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