Hi all, here's an idea how icons for layer modes could look like: http://yahvuu.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/layermode-sshot-proposed.png The icons provide a color-coded overview of how blending affect brightness: - blue: reduced brightness - green: neutral, brightness unchanged - red: increased brightness Technically, these are diagrams where the x-axis is the bottom layer brightness and the y-axis denotes the top layer brightness. The brightness difference caused by the blending operation is then color-coded as described above. The full explanation is available at: http://yahvuu.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/blendmodes1/#brightness_diff At a glance, it can be seen which group a layer mode belongs to: - darken: only blueish and greenish colors - brighten: only yellow/red and green - contrast both red and blue At a second glance, the neutral value (if existent) for the top layer can be read out, that is a horizontal green line in the icon: - green line at top: n = 255 e.g. burn - " at middle: n = 127 e.g. hardlight - " at bottom: n = 0 e.g. screen Complementary pairs like dodge/burn show up as icons rotated by 180 degrees with inverted color code, i.e. swapped red<->blue colors. (dissolve and the 'channel modes' color, saturation, hue and value are of a different kind) the reason for re-grouping is explained here: http://yahvuu.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/layermode-grouping.png and a preliminary patch is also available: http://sites.google.com/site/yahvuu/stuff/layermode-icons-preliminary.tar.bz2 makes sense to anyone? greetings, peter _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
