On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:30:32PM -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > I have the followwing proposal: > what if one had a set of pre-loaded selections, and could switch back > and forth among then with a single keystroke - Do you (and others) > think it could be as usefull/more usefull/just the same as these > proposed drawing zones? Useful, yes. Just the same no. You need to explicitly switch and keep track of the order of selections to navigate efficiently. > Ok, you can imagine that what it brings of convenience for some it > brings of complication to certain user groups. Well, I think drawing zones could have a tab like layers and co, so the feature could stay completely hidden if someone wishes so. > The idea I propose, instead, would use already existing objects, like > this: one would store his drawing zones as a set of selections, each > in a separate image channel, and a simple script, with no imput > parameters, would replace the current selection with a selection in > the channel stack. > > Todo this manually, one would have to: > 1) select the channel tab in the layers/channels dock > 2) select the apropriate channel > 3) click on "channel to selection" > 4) change back to the layers tab on the dock > 5) select the actyual layer where one is drawing back > 6) start painting. > > Looking at this, it si a lot of work, and the drawing zones seems a > better idea. > However, a script fu can perform steps 1-5 with a single keystroke (if > one will select the next/same/previous channel on the stack that has > been previusly used). so it becomes: > 1) hit key that changes teh selection until the desired selection is > set > 2) start painting > > Which seems as practical as the drawing zones proposal. > > There is a final advantage in this proposal: it is ready for serving > _now_,a s writing such a script would take less than 30min. > > What do you say? It's just not the same, but cool nonetheless and I'm glad my proposal has led to thinking and experimentation and propably useful scripts :) -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Creature Illustrations: http://www.printfection.com/thorwil _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
