Fwd: New Harmony review… you've some todo :P

[David REVOY]

Hi, thanks Lukas for the link,
I tested and agree with Animtim review about it, here are just my 
addition on 'shape' and 'gradient' :

* The 'shapes' tool looks like 'Alchemy' or 'Krita Experiment' brush. It 
sure this kind of tool can boost workflow of comics cell-shading. ( just 
select a color, draw the outline of the shape or the part you want to 
fill , and bam ! done. ).
I also prefer the 'live preview' in Krita or Alchemy of the shape while 
doing it , versus the Harmony 'outline' only then filling. But maybe the 
Harmony way have a better result on perfomance ( for the moment I 
experienced some slow down , as I explained to Lukas on IRC a week ago , 
with the experiment brush when creating long path or complex shape , and 
this at 300dpi of course ). Btw, watching only the outline -then- got 
the shape filled, wasn't really disturbing too...

* For 'gradient' , in Harmony , it does a radial gradient on the center 
of the shapes ; on Alchemy , activating the 'Gradient' does a linear 
gradient from the origin point of the path to the last point of the 
path. I like both, each one can be useful in specific cases.


On 08/07/11 10:14, Lukast dev wrote:
> Very nice review from Animtim, thanks!
>
> I will try to incorporate as much features as possible to brush engines ;)
>
> If you use Chromium, you can play and add requests too, but add also
> the reasons why you like that :)
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hoaobejjpllediockjibdeddmiiehdjm?hl=en-US#
>
>
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> From: Timothée Giet
> Date: 2011/7/7
> Subject: New Harmony review… you've some todo :P
>
> Hi Lukas,
>
> I just tried the new Harmony version you told me, and indeed there are
> very cool things!
>
> (I noted (!!!) for the features I find more importants; the others are
> cool too but more exotic)
>
> -Recurvy produce cool smooth sketch shapes(!!!)
> -Curvy produce same kind of cool smooth sketch shapes, but with
> contour/empty inside
> -Gradient is awesome, simple and efficient,would speed-up comics color
> process I'm sure(!!!)
> -Shape  works nice/fast (maybe you could inspire from here to enhance
> your experiment brush performance)
> -Smoothe does very nice ink-oriented smooth shapes (!!!)
>
> Veins and Tree are AWESOME, I'm sure it can be a good feature for
> painting textures (!!!)
>
> Tentacle is fun too, can be useful for speed painting.
>
> Etcha is fun for some 8bit-design
>
> Now I'm just waiting to can use all those cool features in Krita (and
> enhance them with pressure/sensors on some values, with your Magical
> touch :P )
> Seriously if you find some time to include those (in current sketch
> engine or in some dedicated new ones, as you'll feel best)
> that would be very good new features for Krita !
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