> 1. I think the pencil tool should be renamed "Pixel Tool" if it's to stay > > in the Tool box. > > Reasons: > > A. Jaggies don't make for realistic simulated pencil marks > > B. There are better pencil-simulation tools in the Brush palate > > I am not sure that renaming a tool that old would be a good idea. People > know > what to look for, and at the end of the day it's just a name. No one > expects > it to be a realistic pencil. At least no one accustomed to the tool (see > Product Vision for the intended target audience). > I don't see anything in the Product Vision that says tools need to stay the way they are because that's the way they've been. Maybe a link to the specific area of the document would help me understand. > > > I am using the two in parallel all the time when drawing masks. The brush > for > the edges and the pencil to fill in the bulk. Reason: I want to be sure > that > anti aliasing doesn't leave half transparent areas. So I have my left hand > on > the keyboard to hit 'x', 'n' and 'b' and the right hand on mouse/stylus. > We (you and I), make masks the same way. I also use "d" to reset the true black and true white for foreground and background. 'b' is the paths tool... did you mean 'p'? If you are painting a mask inside an area, using the Pencil tool runs the risk of producing jaggies on your nice anti-aliased edges, which is why I never use it for that. Anyway, the effect would be the same if you switched from brush to brush using just the paint tool, and the modifications I've mentioned. > 3. The Pencil Tool could be gotten rid of entirely if #2 is done, and an > > anti-aliasing checkbox is added to the brush options. > > As Simon already mentioned, there are two levels of anti > aliasing/blurring/thresholding/whatever we want to call it. Would that > switch > turn off both? > Yes. It would "snap" as Simon would say. :) see my #4 for improving how thresholding with a gradient across a fussy edged brush could be improved. 100% hardness would produce results more or less identical to what you get with the Pencil tool now. > [...] > > Tobias > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
