Topics to Digital Painting with GIMP
Contents
Introduction
GIMP and Digital Painting
Traditional way
Pret-a-porte way
Artistic style
What is required really?
Tool Presets Bugs and flow problems
Bugs to edit presets
- Tool Options dialog - define in short ...
- Tool Presets dialog
Problematic flow to create
- Tool Options dialog
- Tool Presets dialog
Suggestions
Toggle shortcuts
Increase/decrease size brush directly on canvas
References
- Krita way
- Photoshop way
- Old plugin - mouse to resize brush
Paintbrush with eraser ability
To use the same brush to erase a stroke with a toggle shortcut (recursive). In MyPaint and Krita is possible to use recursively the two tools using only the key 'E'.
To make this in the current stable and devel releases we must follow this flow:
- To share the paint options between tools
- Change between the P or N key with Shift+E and again P or N (for instance)to follow painting/drawing.
The process that is possible is a bit unfriendly if I do a comparison with the flow with Krita/Photoshop and MyPaint. Have a toggle or recursive key to make this, it turns this action more easy and fast to execute. Imagine the users that are using a graphic tablet with GIMP... is necessary stops the action with paint tool, and to use the hand (left/right) to invoke the eraser, with Shift+E, and after again, 'P' or 'N' (for instance) key to follow using the paint tools.
I think that the 'Paint Options Shared Between Tools' works fine in many cases... but not to all. My suggestion, here, is to provide another option to have the eraser directly on paint tool. For me and many painters that are using MyPaint and Krita, this feature is working fine. See thread on mailing list - ideas and suggestions around digital painting on GIMP.
References
- Krita way
- MyPaint way
Paint Tools improvements
Paintbrush and Pencil with pattern (raster)
- Schema feature on GIMP
- Schema on Krita and Photoshop
- Pattern on the current GIMP