">> It might >> also be useful to be able to set the max and min values (max in particular). >> I suspect there are very few people who want a brush size more than 1000 >> (but hey, I don't design billboards). > > I used to recompile my own gimp with a larger maximum brush size, > although I have not often used more than 400 pixels or so. > > Being able to set a maximum might help with "Fitt's Law" - quicker > selection of the largest size. "
This would be brilliant! I love the sliders very quick but I am typically using a brush sizes of 1,2,5,10,20 the sliders are basically useless to me. Is there a way to set the max of the size slider? (and any other sliders for that matter) Paul On 3 February 2013 10:49, scl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01.02.13 at 8:26 PM Steve Kinney wrote: > >> On 02/01/2013 01:18 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> >>> >>> sizes varying between about 5 and 50 pixels, with relatively high >>> precision. >>> The new dialog devotes the left 5% of the slider to this range. >>> >> To set the brush size precisely you can also click the number in the > slider three times and then enter a numeric value. > > In re adjusting brush diameter, I map the unassigned Alt+Scroll >> (mouse wheel) combination to "Brush size increase" and "Brush size >> decrease". Adjusting brush size on the fly without leaving the >> canvas is a wonderful thing. Picture worth thousand words: >> >> http://pilobilus.net/img/**mouse-scale-brush.jpg<http://pilobilus.net/img/mouse-scale-brush.jpg> >> [...] With these brush siza and harness accelerators >> >> set, and the Paintbrush tool options dock open, I find that I rarely >> have to change brushes in the middle of a task. >> > Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I also love adjusting the size on > the fly with the middle mouse button and already wondered if this is > something even more users would find useful if it worked out of the box. > What do you - the users - think? > > > I have also used this menu to map Ctrl+Alt+Shift plus Scroll >> up/down, to increase or decrease brush hardness. On my installation >> I found that the "more" version of this function works better than >> the regular one. >> > This doesn't work on my Mac and Windows machines at all, neither with Pen, > Paintbrush nor Airbrush. How exactly did you do this? > > Kind regards, > > Sven > > > ______________________________**_________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-**list<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list> >
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