I was looking around at the interface for the brush settings and I ran across this "precision" feature on the bottom of some of them.



I couldn't figure out what it did at first. I spent some time looking through the source code and came to realize that it controls the brush quality for your brush tip. The higher the quality, the smoother the stroke gets. It comes at a cost of making the brush less responsive to fast strokes though. My UI change is hoping to make the point more clear and simplify this feature a little bit.

Proposal:


I think we don't need 5 different settings for this. I think just a low, medium, and high would be acceptable. More importantly, display this setting in a combo box and put a description by the different types. I think calling it "Brush Quality" is easier to understand than precision. The auto feature that currently exists is very confusing with the custom settings. I am scared to even touch that.

Thoughts? Am I the only one that was confused about this? It is a really nice feature, but it gets a little lost being tucked away at the bottom.

Im not a power user of that feature so I am giving my opinion 60% blinded.

The simplify modifications sounds good for me, as it makes easier to understand what the setting might actually do. The slider probably should be left for the advanced auto feature. The auto GUI needs rework, or a tooltip, to make more clear how the input relate to each other. The sider could be here instead since 5 grades might be necessary for power users. I found it difficult to get the automatic result I was hoping for.

My bad, found the tooltips, you have to hover the labels not the input fields. :/
Now i get it. however It would be necessary to access the slider from the auto mode as sometimes precision is on 4 instead of 5.

Hm, I agree that it's pretty confusing as it is -- but I'm not sure we've hit the right solution yet. I've always thought the precision slider to be a bit of a stop-gap measure -- Krita should always be fast and best quality

I was at a conference last week, so sorry for the time gap. I spent a little more time playing around with the precision settings and thinking about it what to do with it.

There is already an "auto" setting for precision that changes things based on the brush size. Why don't we just leave it on "auto" all of the time and hide all off the options from the UI. I agree that the feature is a little too granular for artists to be fiddling or worrying about.

Right now, I suspect that very few people touch this. The auto setting might be a smarter default than just always leaving it at 4. I still don't understand the options that you get when the precision is set to auto, so I don't think we should even show that.

Are there many use cases for artists that want this much control? It seems to be mostly concerned with painting with large brushes.

Thoughts?