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introduction

These raw notes are provided as our documentation and for your insight and entertainment. They are not meant to start a flame war. Wait for our complete analysis before reacting.

task:

Creating original art, a collage of found images and wild brushwork.

Open New File

1. Image Size: width and height should be chained
2. Advanced options are hiding the resolution part, which is something we are trying to achieve.
3. X, Y resolution should be the same.
4. Many possible resolution formats, but in 99% you know what pixel/inch you want to achieve.
   1. We can create two radio buttons. The first for screen images and the second for other print resolutions.
5. With closed advanced options you shall be able to express if it’s print or screen img.
6. When choosing img for print, the resolution would be 300 px/in, but user could type other value (the same for X, Y resolution). In advanced options user could change X, Y resolution independently.

Open PDF

It needs Ghostscript, so it should be installed at the beginning (optionally).

Image window issues

1. When closing last image window, an image with Wilber or tooltip could appear.
2. When minimizing image window also toolbox window should be minimized. (however that might be disturbing when working on many images at the same time and shifting between them)
3. In a task bar user should see just the image window.
4. Maybe we could dock dialogs in the main image window. User would be able to have separate dialogs all around, or all in image window.
5. In View/Dialogs menu user could chose the view mode. We should decide about the default after seeing a mockup of how it would look all in one.
6. Inspector windows are real windows, and in general they are too fat comparing to the image window. They should have more ‘light way’ look, thinner, more ‘athletic’. We need to limit big push buttons that are common.

Scanning

1. We don’t like the fact the user has to install SANE plugin to scan. This should be one-click installation. After installing it should automatically see the scanner.

Aquire ScreenShot

1. GIMP is partially duplicating functionality of a system, but we appreciate it also takes a print screen of a single window, or area.
2. Delay is good idea, but the phrase needs to be changed. Description may depend on the option chosen by radio button. There should be also appropriate tooltips.
3. Two delays is too much.
4. We need to show that’s it’s counting down.
5. Name: take a print screen of a single window
6. Other options would be available in a plugin.

Acquire Scanner/Camera..

1. Separate interface item for webcam, scanner, camera.
2. Right now Source window enables choosing right device, but the Source window would be shown just when there are more cameras, or scanners connected.

Layers

We need organizing layers in folders.

Layer Modes

Their names should be as explicit as possible. We know there are a lot of them, but when using them for a longer time you can now/predict their result.

Alpha channel should be more treatable.

Posterize

Nice and straightforward, but effective rather only for low ranges (just below value 33 something really happens).

Colorize

1. Works well, but it wouldn’t make the img realistic.
2. Maybe it shouldn’t be grouped with all other major colour filters.
3. The first 2 sliders should be replaced with colour wheel. Slider for lightness should remain.

Filters

Auto Filters

1. Probable aimed at photographers, but they wouldn’t trust those filters.
2. On contrary those filters make nothing spectacular for graph designers.

Components

Channel mixer

1. Values should be in percents.
2. It works for monochrome, to stop when you like what you see.
3. For colour modes the UI is not good, it’s difficult to make the experiments, when changing the output channels .
4. Save options are useful for creating filters. It would be a good idea to have easy access to different pre-sets (‘personal filters’). Other tools could work in a similar way.
5. Not yet solution for experimentation.

Decompose

1. Not very useful in this scenario

Adjust

Does nothing interesting.

Map

Alien Map

1. Does sth radical, it is rather interesting.
2. No reset button or saving.
3. Three check-boxes are not a good idea. Also changing the modes in this way is not good.
4. Sliders are too technical. We need something that would encourage to experiment, and also give user bigger control over what he does. Now the sliders are too long.
5. Changing the mode keeps sliders at the same place, which is strange, since the sliders have completely different function.
6. Different names, like instead of ‘red frequency’ – ‘red wobbles’, instead of ‘red phaseshift’- just ‘shift’ or ‘wobble shift’.
7. Now using check box doesn’t mean deactivation, but invisible effect of those setting, so maybe we shall put an eye icon.
8. New settings for default (0,7).

Color Exchange

1. There should be different threshold set above zero, because the changes are unnoticeable.
2. In color dialog Hue value changes per 30 when you click at some point, and it doesn’t stop in clicked point.
3. In CMYK values changes per 10, but there is a reason for that. In CMYK you don’t see colors, on the right- HSV you see colors, and you chose exact color. ‘Look and feel wall.’

Map Color Range

1. The direction of how the color changes from the first range to the second should be presented.
2. It’s nice to specify 4 points, but tight now it isn’t controllable, because user can’t see what color points are included.

Gradient Mapping, Palette Mapping

Nice and quick

Rotate Color

1. All values should go from 0 to 360. We like simplicity so we would like to remove the input fields, but maybe that would be ‘too easy’.
2. There should be smaller icons, better describing what they do.
3. Units tab should disappear, hue units should probable always be degrees.
4. Gray mode probable has still some bugs. We are not sure why gray shift is implemented in Color rotation.

Sample Colorize

1. Nice effects, but looks sloppy, because of bad update. It should update once per sec while user is sliding around.
2. It seems the preview sometimes differ from the result.
3. The names for input/output level should be different.
4. ‘Get sample colors’ button is not well place. Choosing an image in Sample dropdown, should trigger ‘getting sample color’.
5. Mulit tonning idea (?)
6. Problems with show selection.(?)
7. The dialog should be rearranged.
8. There should be Apply, Cancel, OK buttons.

The creating a gradient for more complex colorizing is too difficult now.

Color Filters

Colorify

1. It should have good colour picker instead of few custom colours.
2. Doesn’t seem to meet the goals of photographers.
3. Make the inspector ‘invisible’ , when you use them they are prominent.
4. They could be black&white, because it’s big contrast.

Invert and Value invert

Nice and quick

Desaturate

1. Most of the people don’t distinguish lightness and luminosity.
2. It should have preview.
3. Maybe change the names to brightness too.

Color to Alpha

1. Color picker in general in all these dialogs should all be as good as the one in the color picker in toolbox.
2. Controllability of it should be improved.

Filter Pack Simulation

Very badly implemented in UI. Not relevant.

Maximum RGV Value

Direct enough.

Retinex

1. It’s very good for it’s original intent and experiments, but needs goal oriented UI.
2. Technical parameters don’t make a use if you don’t write the parameters on some paper.

Artistic

Apply Canvas

Simple enough, although we wouldn’t recommend it to professionals. One trick pony.

Cartoon

Should stay, easy to control and gives nice effects.

Clothy

Not able to be used for experimenting, because there is no preview.

Cubism

Shouldn’t stay in core GIMP.