Difference between revisions of "Brush Creation and Edit Instances"
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Revision as of 00:31, 2 March 2024
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Brush Assets - Edit and Creation Flows
On GIMP the brushes parametric and raster are shown together, in the same list on Brushes Dialog. This causes some issues when a user tries to edit a brush:
- If is parametric the brush opens correctly the parametric brush editor;
- If is raster the brush is opened also on the parametric brush editor (evidently, isn't possible to edit the raster here).
- Bug 994 - Improvements on brush creation and their filtering (tags) | Proposal (edit)
Is curious to note that the contextual is the same for the two kinds but it recognizes when is a parametric brush... the 'Open Brush as image...' is disabled.
Simplifying the flow to create/edit raster brushes directly on the dialogue lists
Ideally is fine to have a unique dialog list to show parametric (.vbr) and (.gbr, .gih) brushes... is necessary to correct any kind the way to edit them.
The menu of these assets in my opinion must be modified in this way:
- Divide the brush assets by category (raster and parametric). Would be interesting to have a default tag embedded and independent of user choices.
- Each brush asset category enables the editing kind, for instance, raster brushes have a dedicated menu as an asset image.
If is not possible to have, in the same dialog brush list, different contextual menus for parametric and raster brushes... to avoid this issue is necessary one with raster and another to parametric brushes.
Contextual Menu and Brushes Menu | Raster and Parametric on the Dialog lists
[1]Parametric Brush > \_New Parametric Brush... \_Edit this Parametric Brush... \_Duplicate this Parametric Brush... [2]Raster Brush > \_New Raster Brush > Create by default an image with 256x256 px in grayscale, for instance. \_Edit Raster Brush (old Open Brush as image) \_Duplicate this Raster Brush --- Copy Brush Location > Show in File Manager > Delete Brush > --- Refresh Brushes >
If the user has a parametric brush selected on the list, is enabled [1] and is disabled [2] and vice-versa. The option Duplicate Brush and other options present in the menus only for the parametric kind are, essentially, shortcuts and I think that not so useful... these tasks aren't so repetitive in a usual GIMP session.
Fields to Author, License and Comments
In the dialogues to build brushes on GIMP is interesting to have three new fields:
- Author Name
- License
- Comments
Tag Field
Many brushes could be organized by the designer in origin. When a brush is created the author could organize the tags that each brush has by default. This feature is a great way to customize the author's sets and a facility to use the sets on GIMP.
