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Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options

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Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options Martin Nordholts 17 Oct 11:29
  Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options Michael Schumacher 17 Oct 11:48
   Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options Marco Ciampa 17 Oct 12:04
    Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options Jakub Steiner 17 Oct 15:32
     Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options GSR - FR 17 Oct 20:16
Martin Nordholts
2006-10-17 11:29:01 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options

Among many interesting comments regarding the GIMP usability at Slashdot (congrats to
pippin for making a slashdot story btw :), it seems as if people find it hard to realize that there is a brush editor.

How about integrating the Brush Editor into the Brush Options, among with Apply Jitter and friends? After all, the radius, softness etc *are* brush options, which should be reachable from the Brush Options. This will make this feature a lot easier to find for users.

- Martin Nordholts

Michael Schumacher
2006-10-17 11:48:08 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options

Martin Nordholts wrote:

Among many interesting comments regarding the GIMP usability at Slashdot (congrats to
pippin for making a slashdot story btw :), it seems as if people find it hard to realize that there is a brush editor.

The bigger problem is that by default, no brush will be writeable. There are plenty of people who actually find the brush editor but can't figure out how to change the values there.

HTH, Michael

Marco Ciampa
2006-10-17 12:04:58 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:48:08AM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Martin Nordholts wrote:

Among many interesting comments regarding the GIMP usability at Slashdot (congrats to
pippin for making a slashdot story btw :), it seems as if people find it hard to realize that there is a brush editor.

The bigger problem is that by default, no brush will be writeable. There are plenty of people who actually find the brush editor but can't figure out how to change the values there.

IMHO this problem is simple to circunvent. Just popup a windows proposing to copy the brush if it finds that it's non writable by the user.

Same procedure could be applied to the other "system" things like pattern and palettes...

Jakub Steiner
2006-10-17 15:32:58 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:04 +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:

The bigger problem is that by default, no brush will be writeable. There are plenty of people who actually find the brush editor but can't figure out how to change the values there.

IMHO this problem is simple to circunvent. Just popup a windows proposing to copy the brush if it finds that it's non writable by the user.

I don't really see the need for the confirmation dialog at all. This could well be done transparently to the user.

I also believe that we should allow scaling bitmap brushes. It's easier to understand why my brush is blurry than why some brushes behave differently. Does having the brushes at a larger resolution, say 256x256px, and scaling them down have considerable speed implications?

cheers

GSR - FR
2006-10-17 20:16:36 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Integrating the Brush Editor into Brush Options

Hi,
jimmac@ximian.com (2006-10-17 at 1532.58 +0200):

I also believe that we should allow scaling bitmap brushes. It's easier to understand why my brush is blurry than why some brushes behave differently. Does having the brushes at a larger resolution, say 256x256px, and scaling them down have considerable speed implications?

Gimp already does it, just use a pressure sensitive device and activate Size, so you would get a range from original to small and it does not seem to be slow. OTOH, some find the current method or its parameters a bit low quality. Control of size is more an interface issue, just provide a control to go from original down to near zero (remember subpixel methods).

Complain about speed vs quality: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170250 Basic idea:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65030 And dupish (just adds rotation):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163057 Full control system for all paint tools: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119240

GSR