[Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Geert has made some progress on the patch to improve downscaling quality in GIMP (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464466) and we would like to include this change for GIMP 2.6. But in order to do this, we need to know if the approach taken with this patch is indeed an improvement

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Valerie
What version of GIMP are you using? We replaced all the roundish pixmap brushes with parametric ones for GIMP 2.4. The actual problem is not that the brushes would be pixmap brushes. They are just not editable because they are in the system brush folder. What needs to be done is to add

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Alexia Death
Valerie wrote: The other half is that with brush resize in tool options now (where everybody can see it), even non-editable round brushes can be rescaled, which means the default distribution should have not 10 round brushes, but 1 (same with fuzzy brushes and maybe calligraphy). I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Valerie
I wholly agree. Those un-editable round brushes are constantly in the way. Instead having a nice set of different(square, star, calligraphy etc) parametric brushes that are editable from the start would make much more sense. Not entirely sure if that is needed. Texture brushes people

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Filipe Soares Dilly
Hi; Thanks for the reference Valerie. I'm Filsd. :) I agree with you. GIMP needs a new and revised set of default Brushes. And in my experience as a professor of CG Art (using only open-source: GIMP, blender...) I find many people that don't even think in GIMP as a Digital Painting program

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 00:30 -0700, Valerie wrote: The other half is that with brush resize in tool options now (where everybody can see it), even non-editable round brushes can be rescaled, which means the default distribution should have not 10 round brushes, but 1 (same with fuzzy

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:10 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: Valerie wrote: The other half is that with brush resize in tool options now (where everybody can see it), even non-editable round brushes can be rescaled, which means the default distribution should have not 10 round brushes,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp default brush set contest

2008-07-08 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:27:41PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:10 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: Valerie wrote: The other half is that with brush resize in tool options now (where everybody can see it), even non-editable round brushes can be rescaled,