Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:50:29 +0200 From: si...@budig.de To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color ok, to clarify: I meant Shift-X (as in X vs. x :) The point is though that the functionality behind shift-x got lost. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to previous/next tool, but this goes by internal tool ordering and not most-recently-used. Unlike, say, revert zoom which toggles between the current and previously-used zoom level. -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color
So, to give an analogy, if you are working on a surface with no alpha channel, you can simply swap to the background color to erase something you've drawn (which is also precisely what the Eraser tool does if there's no alpha channel!), right? Okay, I think I understand. You know how the Eraser option uses an Alt key modifier for Anti-erase? Maybe add something similar to the Pencil/Paintbrush tools - Alt key activates an anti paint mode. The difference between this and switching to the Eraser tool outright is that the Eraser tool might have separate tool options (dynamics, etc.). I can support that having a keyboard modifier to do something on an arbitrary basis is indeed slightly faster than going to the toolbox and switching tools. Heck, it's still faster than swapping a Wacom pen around for the other end. -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color
Richard Gitschlag (strata_ran...@hotmail.com) wrote: Okay, I think I understand. You know how the Eraser option uses an Alt key modifier for Anti-erase? Maybe add something similar to the Pencil/Paintbrush tools - Alt key activates an anti paint mode. The difference between this and switching to the Eraser tool outright is that the Eraser tool might have separate tool options (dynamics, etc.). At some point we had a feature where the keyboard shortcut X would swap between two different tools (and their contexts). It seems that this feature got lost at some point unfortunately. Anybody willing to hunt it down and resurrect it? Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de http://simon.budig.de/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Simon Budig wrote: At some point we had a feature where the keyboard shortcut X would swap between two different tools (and their contexts). It seems that this feature got lost at some point unfortunately. Anybody willing to hunt it down and resurrect it? X is currently taken by swapping BG/FG colors. Perhaps some other shortcut for the swapping of tools? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color
On 07/30/2013 04:45 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Simon Budig wrote: At some point we had a feature where the keyboard shortcut X would swap between two different tools (and their contexts). It seems that this feature got lost at some point unfortunately. Anybody willing to hunt it down and resurrect it? X is currently taken by swapping BG/FG colors. Perhaps some other shortcut for the swapping of tools? The way I was thinking of it, if transparent was a color (and set as the BG), the shortcut would work. This seemed logical for me because in a file with layers transparent is effectively the BG color for the layers above the bottom. Anti-paint would also work I guess. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color - Update
Just to be clear - the reason I am proposing the enhancement request is a new way of using a feature which has already been coded (ie giving the paintbrush eraser functionality). The purpose is primarily to have a better workflow, but also to have more meaningful treatment of background color for pictures which have multiple layers (and an alpha channel). I have reposted the sample picture here: http://brendanlearnstosee.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/ecorche-dorsal/ The xcf has been renamed with a .jpg extension otherwise it wouldn't upload. By way of example in relation to the paint-with-background-color trick: *also a friend of mine commented that using white to erase was a good trick, but in Wesnoth it's actually really bad considering all portraits are on a transparent layer... (From Wesnoth art forums: http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=23t=38935 There are other examples floating around the web.) Wesnoth portrait art would be an example where this enhancement could be used. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:09:13 +1000 From: disposableem...@apps.opensourcelaw.biz To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color Hi All, I have lodged a request for GIMP to support use of transparency as a color. By this I mean mainly that when using a paint tool, painting with that tool paints only the chosen level of transparency. The enhancement request is here: Add a layer mask. A layer mask is effectively a second alpha channel but you can paint directly on it using any tool and any (greyscale) color. -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
