Hi,

I wanted to try and approach the community for some thoughts as part of the Steam release of Krita.
There are a couple of features which I think should be fairly easy to implement, and which might also provide an opportunity to showcase art as produced by the community, and also to encourage users to seek out some of the more obscure (or useful) tools.

Achievements (feature showcase?)
Achievements can be triggered by events - e.g. "10,000 hours of playtime = 'Expert'", "Created an image with N layers", "Used every type of layer at least once since installing Krita"
They can be a fun way for the user to be rewarded for learning the software, but I thought it might also be fun to try and reward people who take a bit of time with the community.

Here's a short list of ideas I had, I'm curious what others think, and whether there's any features or techniques that might work similarly? Certainly where there' a common/popular artistic technique which we might be able to infer that they're using would be handy.

• "Workflow Warrior" - Importing/exporting between ORA, PSD (or other?) formats.
• "Another Bug Hunt" - experience a bug which was trapped by the software
• "Easter Egg" - by following a series of tasks as written in the achievements source-code and saving a file which the system can test for meeting the criteria (to keep the logic in a single discrete place). Admittedly once someone spots these, they're likely to be shared with other users in a guide
• "Thinking with Portals" - use a filter mask to
• "" - Using the perspective grid tool
• Creating a custom brush (or N brushes)
• Uploading a custom brush(set) for other users to use
• Creating a custom gradient
• Using the mirrored canvas tools
• "No distractions" - using full-screen mode
• Using vector layers
• (G'Mic) - run a custom G'Mic filter
• Using the clones array
• Used N filters since they first installed Krita
• using Filter layers
• "It goes on for miles" - use of the Wrap-Around mode

Open for ideas of cute titles too

Trading Cards (art showcase)
There is the option to have a number of "trading card" assets associated with Krita- which i think would be a great way to showcase some art created by members of the community. 6-9 pieces would be the ideal number, with the main requirement that each would have to have a 1920x1080 image as the full-screen version, as well as having a cropped portrait image for the card. There are other art requirements with this - we would also need a set of 6 similar "badges", backgrounds for Steam user profiles (these might be able to reuse some of the large trading card backgrounds) and some krita-associated "emoticon" art. e.g. something to replace :paintbrush: or :kiki: in chats.
There's some info on them on the Steam community site: https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards

If anyone might have have some thoughts, would like to help, or would like to have one of their pieces considered for inclusion in this way, would love to hear from you

stuartmd wrote:

• "Thinking with Portals" - use a filter mask to

I associate clone layers with portals more than filter masks, they behave and work like "portals" to another layer.

• Thinking with clones - Clone a layer

Filter masks apply an affect on the chosen area of the image, they work like AoE skills in games.

• Area of Effect - Create a filter mask
  Alternate names AoE skills or Area of Effect skills

stuartmd wrote:

(G'Mic) - run a custom G'Mic filter

You can't run custom G'Mic filters in Krita.

Other ideas:

• A ring to paint them all - Fill the quick access palette with your favorite brush presets. "Our preciouses, with a right click!"
• Alcubierre drive - Use the transform tool to warp a layer or selection
  If Alcubierre drive it's too "hardcore" it can be named Warp bubble.
• Brushsmith - Craft X brush presets
• Steady aim - Paint with weighted smoothing X hours/strokes
• Total point of view vortex - Use the perspective grid tool
• Multiverse - Paint with multibrush in symmetry, parallel and mirrored modes
• Bartender - Try X blending modes
  Only for layers, brushes or both?