David Gowers wrote: > Rather than better documentation, I believe better visualization is > the path to improvement of user understanding: > Using the layer thumbnails (and GEGL cache?) to build a 'preview' > composited thumbnail for each mode and show it (next to the text or > as a tooltip) would help the user to understand at a glance the > general working of a layer mode they are considering. The composite > thumbnails could be generated on-demand and otherwise in idle time (so > the person who knows exactly which layer mode they need would not be > impacted -- they could select layer mode just as fast as before, and > if they did need the thumbnails, they'd only need to wait a fraction > of a second longer.)
stretching the idea a bit further, the previews could be arranged as a table: http://yahvuu.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/blendmodes-popup-array1.png ... just brainstorming.. greetings, yahvuu _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
