On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:46:02PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > the drawtool always paints using GIMP_CANVAS_STYLE_XOR, correct? I'm > > creating a patch to add an option to the crop tool to blind the > > region outside the crop area, so you can see how the image will look > > after cropping. I've not decided yet if XOR is good, or if the area > > should become black. Anybody a preference? > > I think neither XOR nor black are an option here. What we would want > to see is a less saturated and darkened version of the image being > shown outside the crop region. That is not going to be a trivial > change though. less saturated won't work for grayscale images, but darkened would be OK I think, but I don't think I can do that on my second day of gimp hacking indeed ;-) But black is a useful start, it can always be improved to a darkened image any later time (for now you can always toggle the checkbox if you want to see what the outer region of the image looks like). regards, Olivier
