Feedback about Krita (linux) from a painter

[Yuri Fidelis]

>
> 5) I was asked how to add a preset to the Right-click pop-up dialog. And I
> could neither answer this question nor find out how to do that. This is
> surely not obvious :(


If I may suggest, the best Idea that comes to my mind is to have a "+"
button above the pallette. Like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38753783/Krita/favpallette_suggestion.png

It's confusing to have to look elsewhere, I think.


Yuri Fidélis P. P. <http://yuri-fidelis.tumblr.com/>


2013/7/21 Dmitry Kazakov <dimula73 at gmail.com>

> Hi!
>
> Yesterday I showed Krita to another friend. She is more a designer than a
> painter, but still there are some comments:
>
> 1) The brush configuration dialog lacks an automatic example stroke, which
> would show the effect of the currently configured brush in the realtime.
>
> My comment: the paintops might also have an method, telling which
> background should be used on the automatic preview. This additional info is
> needed for the paintops like Color Smudge and Deform. This method might
> return: "color", "gradient" or "pattern" and current values would be used.
>
> 2) It might also be cool if this automatic stroke might be compared with
> the previous one. The same applies to the current color selection (is
> implemented in MyPaint).
>
> 3) When brush outline cursor is active, it is *very* difficult to do
> precise details, because you cannot see the center of the circle. The girl
> was painting with quite a big brush, but used light pressure to do thin
> lines (she used some inking preset, so the opacity was always 100%). That
> is why she had to activate "Small Circle" cursor to do the work.
>
> 4) Default brush presets, which are pre-installed with Krita, are, so to
> speak, not optimal, and it is almost impossible to simply start painting
> without getting into the details of configuring a brush.
>     i) Their preview images don't have common design. E.g. coloring could
> show which kind of brush it is.
>     ii) There is no structuring and not much grouping among them
>
> An example of good brushes is the set distributed by David Revoy: it has a
> design and some kind of grouping. I installed it right in the beginning,
> but having it messed with the default presets makes a newbie perplexed with
> the amount of contrast images.
>
> Btw, as far as I understand David uses green color for brushes with the
> pattern. Probably, we could develop this idea further and use coloring to
> group brushes by some trait. E.g. inking brushes --- yellow, filling
> brushes --- blue and so on. But this should be discussed with the painters
> really well to design a good coding system. Probably, there are some
> examples of color coding in real life painting tools?
>
> 5) I was asked how to add a preset to the Right-click pop-up dialog. And I
> could neither answer this question nor find out how to do that. This is
> surely not obvious :(
>
>
>
> --
> Dmitry Kazakov
>
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