Ulf-D. Ehlert skreiv: > Hi Kolbjørn, > > Kolbjørn Stuestøl (Thursday, 19. August 2010) > >> The text explaining the randomness slider in the filter Line Nova >> is a bit confusing to me: >> >> "Set this value more larger (up to 2000) to get more distoted >> radiation. Regular star shape is given by setting this value to 1. >> The default is 30.." (Also a printing error: disto*r*ted). >> > > IMHO you can safely change this (or any other) text if you think it's > confusing or wrong. Most likely you will enhance that text, and if you > really happen to make it worse (nobody is perfect!) someone else will > be confused and will hopefully correct it. :-) > > >> I think the average user will better understand an explanation >> something like this: >> >> "Let the rays start at a random distance from the center. If this >> control is set to 1, all the rays starts at the distance from the >> center determined by the value set in the offset radius above. >> Higher values will randomly add or subtract some pixels from or to >> the calculated distances. The scale goes from 1 to 2000 with 30 as >> the default value." >> > > Sounds good to me. > > Maybe it's a good idea to add two or three sample images (e.g. 3 > images à 150x150 pixels (with reduced number of lines?)) to illustrate > the effect of this option? > > >> Perhaps adding something telling that the value 1 will result in a >> circular start and that a high value will let the rays almost cower >> the image. >> > > Yes, why not? > > Ulf > Well, I'll give it a try in a couple of days, if not someone else do. There is a life outside GIMP too ;-) I liked your suggestion about adding some illustrating pictures. Kolbjoern _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
