Hello > - non-rectangle-bound guides: > Guides that can be enabled to have any angle, which means that they do > not have to be restricted to be 0 degrees or 90 degrees (being parallel > to the window). > > This feature can be helpful, e.g. when correcting pictures, or for drawing parallels > that do not fit the 0/90/180/270/360 degree orientation. > > It would be good, to enable/disable this behaviour via toggle box, so that normal behaviour > will be available and guides can be restricted to classical window-parallel behaviour. I think we have seen this request already several times and I definitely agree it could be useful. Your request made me take a look at the code (app/display/gimpdisplayshell-draw.c, app/core/gimpimage-guides.c, /app/core/gimpguide.c) and it actually seems possible. I'll add it to my to-try list for when I have some more time. > - boundary guides, instead of middle.guides: > Guides, where the outer boundary of a drawing tool snaps to the guide (instead the middle of the > drawing tool snapping to the guide). > > This would be helpful for drawing in general, and correcting pictures: the color will > not pass this line of the guide, which means, you can be sure no color enters a certain region. This does not seem trivial to code - in fact with how I remember the paint core works, this is going to be one very hard hack... Also, I think that if the purpose is just to stay inside of the lines you can use a selection (create it using the guides and freeform selection) and stroke it on a new layer with a mask which is exactly the selection - I do this all the time. Stroking a selection is usually faster than me painting it by hand, and it's probably more accurate. > - Adding Multiple Guides > (there is a Script for this on www.meetthegimp.org, but native would be nice) > > This feature is good for some repetitive tasks, where a lot of Guides will be needed, > something like a guide-grid. Can you give a direct link to the script? I definitely agree this sounds useful - it's worth checking if we can simply include this script with GIMP (or at least if you give us a link to it, we'll be able to write something similar with extra features if needed). ~LightningIsMyName _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
