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  1. STROKE AND MARK BRUSH PREVIEWS - IDEAS
    Paint Dynamic and Tool Preset Preview | Andrew Pullins | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767348 Bugzilla Request.
    This idea is nice, maybe used as preview of brushes with dynamics. Each time, that you change the dynamic the preview is refreshed.
    The preview should have two types, selected by radio buttons: brush mark and stroke. With brush mark showing the traditional static mark; with stroke, a wave shape made with a simple path.
  2. WORKSPACES | Create a menu on Windows file menu to manage/create customized workspaces on GIMP. By default would have the curent SWM and MWM.
    The workspace profile is the entry door of many kind of tasks... and in this sense could to improve also the GIMP Usability in other scenarios.
    1. gimp --new-instance --session workspace-name > to create a new instance as workspace on GIMP.
      gimp --session workspace-name > to call the session on GIMP.
      GIMP Workspaces | Americo Gobbo.
      Add a new voice on Windows menu > Workspace. The menu is composed by:
      1. Workspaces
        
        \_Workspaces list
        \_Create a New Workspace > [Dialog to put a name]
        \_Rename a Workspace >
        \_Workspace list > [Dialog to rename a workspace]
        \_Delete a Workspace >
        \_Workspace list [Dialog to confirm or cancel the delete task]
  3. STAMP BRUSH REGISTRED | To have the Alignment feature on Paintbrush and Pencil to stamp stain brushes > to make texture on-the-fly directly with brushes | Gustavo Deveze Video Deveze.
    Perhaps, another possibility is see if the Clone Tool could be used with brushes, too. [?!]
  4. WHEEL MOUSE AND SLIDERS | Sliders of Dialogues and Wheel mouse: work with the same behaviour and sensibility of the Cursor+Left-Button ranges [Bug?]
    1. ↑ Stronger increase and decrease
    2. ←→ Fine tune
  5. COLOR WHEELS KIND | Digital Painting Colour Wheel Wikipedia | Americo [?!]
    1. Standard digital Red/Green/Blue
    2. Traditional artist's Red/Yellow/Blue RYB color model
    3. Red-Green and Blue-Yellow opponent pairs
  6. SCRATCHPAD LAYER VIEW | View Visible-from-this-Layer > add another possibility of type view: the current view type is always to 'visible, my proposal is to add other chain-visible-layers ('set view from of this layer'). When you are working with multi layers, many times, certain layers are key of a process, some examples could be:
    1. View per-layer is also a good scratchpad to add refs and pieces of own work to use in different ways and circumstances during the work session.
    2. Building swatches palettes directly on canvas layer. Many artists, photographers and painters, use the palette painted directly on canvas. If we have the possibility of different view layers... we can have the palette in the same .xcf archive and use them.
    3. Tonal control > see the painting/photo in gray tones. Normally, is necessary time in time verify how is the balance of the tonal composition. With this kind view is possible to have two different stack views at same time. In this way is possible to work directly, for example, directly on layer colors showing my process of colorizing and same time to see the result of tonal control in another view... without the necessity to 'on' and 'off' recursively any time that you are interested to see the in progress of the art. [see a attachment: view-from-this-layer_request.jpg]
    4. In the two first cases, this approach is good mainly to maintains all refs and swatches colors in same archive.
    5. In the second case, this permits that we can to use this kind view as a scratchpad with high bit precision palette although color swatches painted directly on ... with the advantage that you are using the same color space, and also is saved in the same archive.
    6. We can see this approach on MyPaint, where we have a scratchpad.
  7. DIALOG LISTS WITH SCROLL ARROWS | Add on dialog lists with arrows to scrolling: the behavior of current cursor is very imprecise and difficult to use with the stylus tablet, mainly, when the list is great. The unique way that I have found, with stylus in hand, is to select/click an asset of the list and use the keyboard arrows to do scrolling. With the wheel of the mice works fine.
  8. MODES SHORTCUTS | Action Shortcuts to the Modes on Paint tools (on Krita [1]).
  9. TEMPLATES READY TO USE (DIALOG?!)
    1. Preparing templates ready-to-use to some painting techniques, e.g, watercolors.
    Basic Painting
    \_Work transparent layer, and so it has an alpha channel.
    \_Background layer + alpha channel (texture or color).
    Basic Watercolor
    \_Bright mask (grayish ~60% opacity → HSV Noise + Desaturated + Pick. Blends indicated are Overlay and Burn).
    \_Work transparent layer, and so it has an alpha channel (if implemented blends on transparent layers, possible to use all blend modes on brushes). Blend indicated could be Multiply, Darken Only.
    \_Background layer + alpha channel (texture or color).[]
  10. Gradient as Palette: plugin to create palettes with different gammas in an easier way with a number fixed of passages between a variable number of colors, max 3 min 1.
  11. Plugin to collect assets linked in the tool preset > export to share...