Usability and Tools
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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 development 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 makes this action easier and faster to execute. Imagine the users that are using a graphic tablet with GIMP... is necessary stops the action with the paint tool, and 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 for all. My suggestion, here, is to provide another option to have the eraser directly on the paint tool. For me and many painters who are using MyPaint and Krita, this feature is working fine.
References
- Krita and Mypaint way - I've made a short video using Krita to exemplify the feature. The key 'E', by default, is used to enable the erase feature. On MyPaint the feature has the same behaviour and short-cut key.
- Old issue on Bugzilla - Report 704775 to Gitlab - Similar issue
Blend Modes Shortcuts
To improve the keyboard shortcuts with actions to blend modes in the layer and tool options instances.
Improvement Reasons
Many techniques of retouching, and painting, for example, use a gamma very restricted of blends... many users have their favourites. In the current GIMP, to change between the more used or favourites, is necessary, at all times, to do the always the same steps. With shortcut action will be easier to choose your favourite blends during the work sessions.
Another possibility is to think of a preset for each tool painting where is enabled a specific blend mode.
Preview - Stroke and Mark brush
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 a 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. Brush marks show the traditional static mark; with stroke, a wave shape is made with a simple path.
Registered Brush
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].
