Blending-modes brainstorming

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 Jul, David REVOY wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Oups, sorry I wasn't knowing something was on the way. 

Well, I kinda told you on irc :-)

> All what you 
> describe sounds good :) I like it.
> I agree about the needing to experiment , btw.
> ( note : I saw the collapse/expend behavior , but it's hard to do it 
> with double-click for the moment and Krita don't remember it yet... )
> 
> > 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.
> A text info bubble , I like it.
> What are the image URL of Alexey (or thread URL ) concerning this 
> blending mode preview ?

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=95557

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