Baigow wrote:I think that retaining the last brush size for each variant would be great. Currently it gets the default size each time you come back to a previous variant.

That's part of Mohit Goyal's summer of code proposal. Let's hope he gets in

please add MIDI support. yes, MIDI...if possible

afaiu, it's not a very complicated task. but it opens up a rain of possibilities. worth check it out i think

and SHIFT-SNAP as i already mentioned in separate thread. please, please, please, please!

I have recently started using Krita when I looked for alternatives to Photoshop because I found that many of the systems found in Photoshop got in the way of my creative process, however there are still some features of Photoshop which I feel would be particularly beneficial in Krita for concept art/design.

The dodge and burn tool would allow for more control over textures and would mean I wouldn't need to prepare the image before putting it back into Krita.

The lasso tool for more accurate image editing would also be useful but not as important as there are workarounds.

And finally the lens flare and lighting effects filter from the render filters category of Photoshop would greatly reduce the time required to achieve the feel of a particular cinematic effect or atmosphere when creating a key frame.

my apologies if I posted it on the wrong thread but I feel this would greatly strengthen Krita as an asset for digital artist.

All the best for the future of Krita and its community.

geostationary0rbit wrote:I have recently started using Krita when I looked for alternatives to Photoshop because I found that many of the systems found in Photoshop got in the way of my creative process, however there are still some features of Photoshop which I feel would be particularly beneficial in Krita for concept art/design.

The dodge and burn tool would allow for more control over textures and would mean I wouldn't need to prepare the image before putting it back into Krita.

You can turn any tool into a dodge or burn tool by changing the blending mode to dodge or burn!

The lasso tool for more accurate image editing would also be useful but not as important as there are workarounds.

There's a lasso tool... actually, there's 3 of them, one fully freehand, the next polyline, and the last bezier-curve. Press 'a' to set them to add mode and 's' to set them to substract.

And finally the lens flare and lighting effects filter from the render filters category of Photoshop would greatly reduce the time required to achieve the feel of a particular cinematic effect or atmosphere when creating a key frame.

... Never thought I'd see someone request those o_o, but hey I am not actually you, so okay.

my apologies if I posted it on the wrong thread but I feel this would greatly strengthen Krita as an asset for digital artist.

All the best for the future of Krita and its community.

That's alright, but I guess the last one about lensflare is best if you filed a feature-request for it in the bug-tracker.

Typical noob being a noob, never realised quite how dynamic the brush engine was, where would one ask questions about features which may or may not exist within krita for example is it possible to set the maximum opacity for brushes in increments using the keyboard?
As for the filters thing its more the render lighting effects which is useful because it gives you this easy to manipulate fake global lighting rather than the lense flares.

[Idea] Improving the Readability of the Layerstack

I still haven´t given up trying to organize my layerstack in a handy way. I rename the layers with meaningful terms, organize them in groups and so on.. When i open an older document it´s always like "WTH have i done here!" The same applies when i work with layered files that someone else has created. It´s like reading code that you have not written. Hard to interpret and understand the organization/workflow of the original author.

I have tried to figure out what information i am missing to understand the layerstack easier and faster. One key-information is the blend-mode and i thought - why not display the layer blend mode in an icon. But that's not really elegant. Too many different blend modes, too crowded, it may change often (merging down/changing the mode). So here is another idea to solve this:

In the Layer right-click menu we have an entry: "Rename Layer > " with a drop out submenu...
In this submenu we can choose between (customizable) options to auto-rename a layer by a set of given variables like:

%Blendmode - %Opacity(#) or
%Groupname | %Layername

We can configure this variables in a separate menu/window or in the global configuration and there could be some preconfigured options that are not editable.

This aproach has some nice advantages:

- highly customizable
- easy to understand, user-controlled
- naming convention´s could increase the readability of layered files in a collaborative work (imagine this: %layername [%author - %last_modified]

Idk if this thread is the right place for this? And i am also not sure if there is a graphic software with something similar (proof of concept). But actually layers are like single files, so why not handle them in a way we know from organizing files in a filesystem?

Interesting idea... We actually decided to at least add the opacity value to the layer display at the sprint, but this goes quite a bit further.

The biggest thing I would like to see is already in development (MVC stuff).

One thing that would be convenient is a nice brush preview when you are changing brush settings. I know there is a scratch pad area on the right you can draw on yourself, but it would be nice if there was a dynamically generated brush preview to see more immediate feedback of how the new settings will look (similar to Photoshop). It makes doing tweaks more visual than guessing what the new settings will look like.

The other tweak is more of a shortcut thing. When doing selections with lasso tools, you can create, add, remove, and intersect. It would be better if the shortcuts were meta keys (shift to add, alt to remove, shift and alt to intersect). It is more consistent to use meta keys for modifying selections ( like selecting multiple files). Other programs like Photoshop use this pattern already.

Nice little snippet I read not too long ago about meta-keys and why they are used for selecting things:
http://books.google.com/books?id=xk1S1- ... ce&f=false

This is a good book if you like interface design stuff. Keep up the good work guys!

We used to have the automatic brush preview but because our brush engines are rather more complex, it actually didn't show a whole lot of useful information, which is why we replaced it with the scratch area. I don't think we should go back on that decision.

As for the selection shortcuts, this is definitely something we want to do, once we have power over the entire shortcuts system.

submitted to the wishlist last night for the "fill_Shape brush" to work like the "Draw freehand path" (settings: fill foreground colour and no outline). Plus the option of creating gradients through your final shape. A lot of this can be done using other tools but it requires a lot of back and forth using keyboard short-cuts. If your not sure what I mean by all this check out this video of the same brush done in TVpaint. This process can also be done in Manga studio however I would much prefer to keep using Krita.

http://youtu.be/DK37ES-LFpM

in the Dockers i like to add something to increase or decrese the brushes, or somothing like blender that when you press the " F " button, the sizes of the brush apears at the view and you can changed dynamically, also the opacity with shift+f.

You can change the brush size dynamically by doing a shift-drag on the canvas (or use the [ and ] shortcuts). Opacity can be changed with the i and o shortcuts.

I would love to have a layer merge visible , so i can preserve some layers when combining other layers ,because when flatten ,even locked or hidden layers they will vanish as well... but i´m not sure how other people think of it

Hello

- Reference view that follows canvas movements.

Ty for your time and great work.

Sorry if this feature exist or any1 ask before.

@cleblang
I would love to see "merge visible" in the layers menu as well. ATM i have to create a group and move each layer individually inside to be able to merge certain layers. This could be solved by selecting multiple layers just to group them before merging.

@carlosan
Reference docker improvements is on the TODO list :]