I saved these notes for when there was a 2.6, but then got swamped with
other things... I can flesh them out more, but I'm not likely to have
time to do any programming in the forseeable future, I'm afraid.
selction optimization
on subtracting (e.g. control is pressed), compute
the bounding box of the current selection (including the
feather radius) and don't try & go outside it with the new one;
you see this if you're using select-by-colour or the magic wand,
say, and you have to wait ages for it to calculate the selection
over a 500MByte image... images are getting bigger faster than
computers are getting faster right now.
Preferences
Create open file previews even if layer previews are off
Allow the user to reset a single pref. category, nut just everything
File->open
show more detailed times and dates on files
in tip of the day, "learn more" links to documentation and to
tutorials in the manual
in the undo window (I hope to do some pictures of this)
"creative explorer"?
click on image state, transitions shown between
Right now to undo something you have to click on the previous
operation -- e.g:
create a new image, paint, then erase, Undo History looks like
[thumb1] Base Image
[thumb2] PaintBrush
[thumb3] Eraser <-- this is selected
so to undo the Eraser you click on the Paintbrush. Duh.
The icons should show image states:
[thumb1] Base Image
Paintbrush
[thumb2]
Erasor
[thumb3] <-- selected
Now it's obvious what clicking thumb2 means.
And look! there's the possibility of making a tree: suppose
I click on thumb2 and now instead of redoing Eraser I do Curves...
[thumb1] Base Image
Paintbrush
[thumb2]
| Eraser
| [thumb3]
Curves
[thumb4]
(apologies for the bad ascii tree here)
The undo history could also show more detail, e.g. scale to 25%,
where it makes sense, and also show when files were saved and
to what name.
This also leads to the idea of "redo select but add to selection
instead of subtract" if you right-click
(e.g. "redo with current tool options")
and maybe "clear undo up to this point"
quickmask to work wih red mask even in grayscale images
drawing
when you use shift to make a straight line, draw two lines, showing
the outline of the brush (tangents), not just one line.
when you change hardness/size, e.g. with a keystroke or by pressing
harder, show the actual brush in place for a moment
filter brushes - paint with a filter (Krita has this by the way)
text
justify-both doesn't seem to work, probably because there's no
obvious way to control line length.
kerning
access to opentype features (e.g. small caps)
access to arbitrary glyphs
hung punctuation
etc etc :-)
plugins and filters
colourise
show the Hue by the Hue slider, or use a colour picker
merge visible layers
if all layers are the same size, and the
same size as the image, don't ask
whether to clip them.
condense/stretch font
retain textness on image scaling and layer scaling
automatic white balance - allow the user to pick black and
white points
menus
rename Image->crop image to Image->Crop to Selection
same with layer->crop
dodge
want to be able to specify what's meant by midtones, highlight, etc.
really, want a "curves brush".
tips
the doge tool is usually most effective if you make lots of
short, separate strokes.
convolve
select radius...
colours->levels
"auto" loses detail by default; change so it doesn't, but
maybe have a "highlight and depth crop amount" of 3%
Sorry these are awfully terse. Sending them rather than not send
them... can file individual bugzillae or messages if it makes sense.
Liam
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Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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