Re: Suggestion to toolbar buttons placement

2000-10-03 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-10-03 at 1633.44 -0500):
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Tobias [iso-8859-1] Gärder wrote:
> > what I'D want is gimp to show the selection-size all the time and not just
> > while selecting something, i hate to reselect everything to see how big
> > something is (there might be a solution for this, please help me! =)
> Tobias has a good point.  One of the features I sorely miss from photoshop
> was the "Info" window.  In addition to showing the sizes of selections

Have you ever tried hitting Ctrl+Shift+i? Maybe that is what you want
(1.1.26 at least). Well, that plus extra functions (selection size).

GSR
 



Re: Suggestion to toolbar buttons placement

2000-10-03 Thread Jon Winters

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Tobias [iso-8859-1] Gärder wrote:

> COUTIER Eric wrote:
> 
> what I'D want is gimp to show the selection-size all the time and not just
> while selecting something, i hate to reselect everything to see how big
> something is (there might be a solution for this, please help me! =)

Tobias has a good point.  One of the features I sorely miss from photoshop
was the "Info" window.  In addition to showing the sizes of selections
it gives you the RGB value of whatever is under the cursor.  It even shows
before/after values when making adjustments and corrections.

Screenshot:
http://www.obscurasite.com/images/screengrabs/info-hist.jpg

In Gimp you can get the RGB values with the eyedropper tool but it goes
away when you select another tool. It would be nice to have it around all
the time and even better if it did before/after values so we can make more
precise color corrections.

Also note down in the corner the "history" / "actions" window.  We have
multiple undo and redo but is there something history and actions has in
addition?  (I started using Gimp before photoshop had that history stuff
;-)

It might be cool to have a "progressive undo / redo" so you can partially
back out of something.  The workaround I use for this now is to duplicate
one or more layers, do something like a color correction or filter, then
adjust transparency to blend the modified layer with the original.

Having a "procedural undo" would be able to accomplish this without the
additional step of creating a layer.  (heh... I'm lazy)

Thanks in advance for your consideration.  (and I know we are in a
"freeze" so I don't expect to see any new features any time soon)
-- 
Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/

   "Everybody loves the GIMP!" 
  http://www.gimp.org/




Re: Suggestion to toolbar buttons placement

2000-10-03 Thread Tobias Gärder

COUTIER Eric wrote:

> Hello,
>
> GIMP: what a great tool !
>
> I am just an user but can i make a suggestion ? There's 25 buttons on the
> Gimp Toolbar and sometime, it's not easy to find the good one in all these
> buttons.

Why don't you use the select-your-own-key-to-the-buttons-you-like
function? Working with the keyboard instead of chosing each tool by hand(mouse)
is a great time-saver anyway.

(Just popup the menu, hold the pointer over the function you want to change
keybinding for and then press the key you'd like to use in the future).

I rarely touch the tool-panel anymore after modifying gimp to work just like
the old photoshop keybindings, which i'm used to.

just a tip. maybe unneccessary. maybe helpful. who knows.


what I'D want is gimp to show the selection-size all the time and not just
while selecting something, i hate to reselect everything to see how big
something is (there might be a solution for this, please help me! =)

__
tobbe|www.phatsidedesign.com





Suggestion to toolbar buttons placement

2000-10-03 Thread COUTIER Eric

Hello,

GIMP: what a great tool ! 

I am just an user but can i make a suggestion ? There's 25 buttons on the
Gimp Toolbar and sometime, it's not easy to find the good one in all these
buttons.
I suggest to arrange buttons by "groups", separated with spaces, to respect
"7 items" ergonomy standard
- selection buttons:Rectangle, Circle, Freehand selection, magic wand,
bezier tool,intelligent scissor, selection mover
- "transformations": crop tool, transformation tool, mirror tool
- drawing tools: text tool, fill tool, gradient tool, pencil, brush, rubber,
aerograph, ink tool,
- rectification tools: stamp tool, blur tool, ink tool, multiply tool,
finger tool
- "gadget" tool (tool that don't modify image but give info on
image):magnifier, compass, color picker

I think with that, each button must be easier to find.