Feedback about Krita (linux) from a painter

JL VT pentalis at gmail.com
Sun Jul 21 21:19:37 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Dmitry Kazakov <dimula73 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I guess most users don't know what effect does each sliders, or how they
>>> affect brush result.
>>> An auto preview system does improve experimenting for sure.
>>>
>>
>> But it's really difficult to do right because it's practically impossible
>> to show the effect of all sensors on the stroke. Photoshop only shows
>> pressure, as far as I remember, and that gives a very misleading effect.
>> I'm not convinced that it's not better to let the user use the scratchpad
>> to see the effect for themselves.
>
>
> Well, the exact phrase was: "why the hell I have to scratch something at
> the right when changing every single slider?" And yes, the girl was seeing
> Krita the first time and she couldn't tell which slider is responsible for
> any particular effect. Of course there are several difficulties with
> implementing it. Yes, it is quite difficult to invent something to show
> stylus rotation or something. But I guess that in 80% of the cases the user
> will use Pressure sensor only. So this small preview will help the user for
> majority of the usecases. And in the rest 20% he will just use the
> scratchpad and paint himself.
>
>
What about redrawing the last scratch of the scratchpad with the new slider
property?, this way the artist can control what he wants to see, and we
don't have to invent a stroke that allows proper visualization of every
possible permutation of properties.
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