Feedback about Krita (linux) from a painter

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 21 July 2013 Jul 20:44:35 Dmitry Kazakov 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.
> 

Well, I like the idea of recording a stroke and keeping that around until the user creates a new test stroke. I don't want to go back to the automatic sinus squiggle, though.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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