Thomas W writes: > 1) Icons open at 100% view, which is tiny in the window & far smaller than > what I want for working at. This always requires two steps -- increase > magnification, and then drag the window larger. You might want to change the preference "Resize window on zoom" in the Preferences window under "Image Windows". It will eliminate the second step. > 3) Not very easy to test icons. There's no quick way to get rid of the > selection border, layer borders & background checks to view the overall > tonality & see how it looks against a white background. You know about the items in the View menu, right? And if you do View->New View, you can turn off all that visual clutter in one view while leaving it on in the other. You can also have a view that shows you the icon at actual size, while you work on another view with a high zoom. > 4) Feature idea: Especially nice would be the ability to view & test > icons, or transparency in general, by dragging it against a white/ and > variegated background (or over the whole desktop) with a range of zoom > levels from 100 - 400%. That would be nice. I test transparent images by having a white or colored background that I turn on or off as I edit the image, but having a way to do that without making an extra layer would be useful. You can test against the current desktop, even with transparency, using Filters->Animation->Playback, then click the Detach button and drag the image to the desktop. It would be nice if this feature wasn't so hidden, since it's very useful for non-animated images but no one is likely to discover it where it is without being told. > Perhaps icon-editing is a little bit different from the "photographic > editing" usecase, but it's quite common. Does anybody else find areas where > GIMP could support the user/ workflow better? Suggestions welcome. I've found GIMP to be an excellent tool for what little icon editing I've done, mostly because of its multiple views. ...Akkana _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
