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| suggestions | wanderer | 25 Jun 04:22 |
| suggestions | Alexandre Prokoudine | 25 Jun 04:43 |
| suggestions | Srihari Sriraman | 25 Jun 14:03 |
| suggestions | free | 26 Jun 11:11 |
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Hello!
I'm new here, so first of all I would like to say it's a wonderful job that has been done in 2.8. Knowing a little bit of programming, I thought I might help with minor improvements to the software.
So, I came up with these little improvements to Gimp that would make it better, in my own point of view. I would like to share these suggestions to you, to see if they are really relevant. And I ask for your pardon if I am writing things that have already been discussed.
Here are the suggestions:
1- When you are using the scale or rotate tool and try to insert a guide, it doesn't close the tool.
2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers bounds.
3 - add the option to autocrop layers to their limits (the same thing like when you do 'alpha to selection' then 'layers -> crop to selection') whenever you change it.
4 - add a checkbox button in the scale tool for scale from center. Maybe add also a keyboard shortcut for it.
For the fourth suggestion I saw an entry in bug list, where a complete system of anchor for scale was intended to be made. So this could be an temporary fix for something I think it's important. I know that you can scale from center using layer->scale layer, but I though "why scale tool don't do it?"
Also, as I said before, if you think any of the suggestions are good ones I could try to implement them myself. But I am really new here, so I think I would have to understand the code and the development proccess first. I could make it a plug-in or script, but if I am going to code it and it's relevant, I thought I might do it directly to the source code of the program. And, of course, it would be a great honor to contribute with a software and philosophy that I admire.
Thanks for the attention!
freewanderer
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:22 AM, wanderer wrote:
Here are the suggestions:
1- When you are using the scale or rotate tool and try to insert a guide, it doesn't close the tool.
You mean, the suggestion is to _not_ close thew tool? :)
2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers bounds.
Makes sense to me
3 - add the option to autocrop layers to their limits (the same thing like when you do 'alpha to selection' then 'layers -> crop to selection') whenever you change it.
To autocrop in which cases? Transformation tools already have that.
4 - add a checkbox button in the scale tool for scale from center. Maybe add also a keyboard shortcut for it.
This is already in works and will be available in the new unified transform tool, except it will be called differently. See http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification#pivot for reference.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers bounds.
Relative snapping/positioning has been on my mind a lot! A lot of times when making banners or brochures, I just want one layer aligned at the same horizontal or vertical position or with same height or width. I don't need grids or any guides. In many of my designs, only the relative positioning of layers matters.
Currently, I do this by creating guides and then snapping both layers to it, appropriately. This is quite strenuous to repeat every time I need such a facility.
How about "*snap to layer edges*", which creates guides at all 4 edges of
all layers. (See [1] )
These "Layer-Guides" could be in a different colour to differentiate from
user-defined guides.
Could also configure which edges we would like to snap to.
If these Layer-Guides get visually confusing with other guides and the grid, then we can display the guide(s) momentarily when a layer is scaled or moved to snap to it(them). That is, show the guides only *during the snap *.
[1] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28366148/relative-guides.jpg
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:22 AM, wanderer wrote:
Here are the suggestions:
1- When you are using the scale or rotate tool and try to insert a
guide, it
doesn't close the tool.
You mean, the suggestion is to _not_ close thew tool? :)
2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers bounds.
Makes sense to me
3 - add the option to autocrop layers to their limits (the same thing
like
when you do 'alpha to selection' then 'layers -> crop to selection') whenever you change it.
To autocrop in which cases? Transformation tools already have that.
4 - add a checkbox button in the scale tool for scale from center. Maybe
add
also a keyboard shortcut for it.
This is already in works and will be available in the new unified transform tool, except it will be called differently. See http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification#pivot for reference.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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Here are the suggestions:
1- When you are using the scale or rotate tool and try to insert a guide, it doesn't close the tool.
You mean, the suggestion is to _not_ close thew tool? :)
Yes, that's it! I thought that could work well with my other suggestion, snapping the guides to the layer edges or center.
2-How about "*snap to layer edges*", which creates guides at all 4 edges of all layers. (See [1] )
Well, I thought of something that would not create guides... I know that there is an option to create guides in all 4 corners of the layer. I thinking in something that would not create the guides, rather give the ability for the user to snap in the corner he/she wishes.
3 - add the option to autocrop layers to their limits (the same thing like when you do 'alpha to selection' then 'layers -> crop to selection') whenever you change it.
To autocrop in which cases? Transformation tools already have that.
Well, I was thinking in something like this: If this option is enabled, the layer bounds will be the entire image if there is nothing on it. If there is a brush stroke, painting, or anything in the layer, immediatly after that gimp automatically crop the layer bounds to the limits of the brush stroke/painting or whatever. I am thinking in the behaviour of layers in photoshop, to be honest.
4 - add a checkbox button in the scale tool for scale from center. Maybe add also a keyboard shortcut for it.
This is already in works and will be available in the new unified transform tool, except it will be called differently. See http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification#pivot for reference.
Good to know it! Can't wait to see it done.
Thanks for the answers! I think the snap to layer border may be a good implementation. I will try to do the coding.
freewanderer
