Sure!

In the layer panel, the app shows the "Transparent Color" as a Dark gray. This fits well with the "Dark interface", but when we use the "Light theme" I believe the color representing the transparent color can be also a Light gray, not a Dark gray, to fit the theme. Same for the layer with a big "X", the background can be a Light gray too if we are using the "Light theme"

Besides anything else, is a little hard to read thumbnails with a dark background when we are doing outlines and only have black lines in the layer

Check the images I posted above in this thread with a draw of a smile. @alfanders photoshopped a simulation of what I mean, he makes the background of the layer a Light gray

Artstudio 4.1.2 fixed the visual bug in the "current color/previous color" by adding the outline - Cool!

Another small visual bug remains, the number 2 in the post below regarding the representation of a transparent color while we use the light theme

https://www.luckyclan.com/forum/index.php?topic=2957.0

By the way, I am not so sure about the big "X" representing an "empty layer", maybe a totally empty thumbnail will be cleaner - or even better, the good old checkerboard of white/gray (like we have in photoshop). The checkerboard makes it a little easier to see some combinations of colors too - like white interface, white brushstroke on white canvas - like "Layer 4" in the image below



Photoshop empty layer


Thanks for the fast updates and bug fixes o/

@LCArt The snap to 100% is still happening, but just happens after you release the gesture. I understand you are not seeing the visual feedback but this feedback makes the zoom looks janky, which triggers a lot of OCD too - Not to mention, the threshold is very tiny, about 5 degrees, which forces you to use very delicate gestures

An option to toggle the real-time snap could indeed be handy, so no one has OCDs

But let's go further about your workflow, maybe you can benefit from the below suggestion. I guess you still want to zoom in sometimes, that's why you don't use the "Lock zoom" in the quick menu, right?

I have a suggestion for devs to maybe accommodate @LCArt workflow and similar ones, I will call it Suggestion 7 in this thread:

7 - Let the user specify the minimum zoom level and the maximum zoom level at preferences

In all examples below the user can pan as usual of course

Example A (the user can fully zoom in for details and zoom out too, but never below 100%)
Minimum zoom level: 100%
Maximum zoom level "max"

Example B (the user is unable to zoom in or out, the canvas is locked at 100% all the time)
Minimum zoom level: 100%
Maximum zoom level 100%

Example C (Can be useful if the user is doing pixel art)
Minimum zoom level: 3000%
maximum zoom level 2000%

Example D (The default zoom limits as they are right now)
Minimum zoom level: "min"
Maximum zoom level "max"

If the user is concerned about a precise zoom level, the already present panel in Artstudio / Preferences / Interface / Show Zoom info can be very useful

One small complication for devs: "Zoom to Fit", "Zoom to Fill", "Zoom 100%" and "Print Size" will need to comply with the limits - or be "ghosted" (disabled) if they "break the rules" of the user established threshold

By the way, another small suggestion to help those concerned about the zoom level:

8 - If Artstudio / Preferences / Interface / "Show Zoom info" is enabled when the user uses a gesture (or menu) to, let's say, Zoom to 100%, Zoom to Fit, or Zoom to Fill, I believe they need to see, for one second maybe, the "zoom info popup" to check the actual zoom level - again, only if "Show Zoom info" is enabled

The reason is this: Those options (like Zoom to 100%) are "reversible", meaning, if we are in 250% zoom and press "Zoom to 100%" we go to 100%, if we press "Zoom to 100%" again, we return to the previous zoom level (250%) - This feature is great! - But if the user is concerned about the exact zoom level, they may need a quick glimpse at the "Zoom info panel" to be sure where they are

@alfanders Interesting concept, looks like something between the full panel and a fully compact panel. Sketchbook manages to compact it even more (also, the first layer from the bottom is that "special background color" layer I mentioned in the first post)



Speaking of which, one additional suggestion, let me call it number 5:

Check the Sketchbook color strip, maybe if we can "resize" and "squeeze" the color wheel panel to be very narrow, the color wheel panel can become a strip like this, with the current/previous color on top instead of that circle? A color strip can be a good match for a "compact workflow"

1 - What do you think of one "special layer" to define the color of the background?

Every new document already has 2 layers:
Layer 2 - The default selected layer
Layer1 - filled automatically with white

I know we can select the bottom layer, then click the bucket fill, then select the color, then click on the image to change the "background layer color", then click on another layer, then select another color, then click on the brush tool,  but that's a lot of steps to define a background color and keep drawing

Sketchbook, clip studio paint, and procreate, all of them have this "special layer" (which is converted into a regular flat layer when we export to psd for example). With one click on this special layer, the color wheel is opened and with another click, we define the color - Done. Aside from gains in speed and simplicity, maybe this "special layer" can use less memory compared to a regular layer pre-filled with color, allowing one extra layer in the iPad?

2 - Visual bug: When we use the light theme, the transparent color represented in the layer thumbnail background is too dark, maybe the color representing the "transparent" in the thumbnail can use the same tone of gray of the interface? A light gray thumbnail background when we use the light theme and a dark gray thumbnail background when we use the dark theme?

3 - We need an option to "clear" a layer, keeping the name, blending mode, and opacity, and just deleting everything inside the layer, it's faster than deleting the layer, creating another one, renaming it, and readjusting the blending mode/opacity. Maybe a "clear layer" option in the lateral menu, opened when we "click" the layer, or maybe a "clear" button when we swipe left the layer? Obviously, we need the "clear layer" in the drop-down layer menu as well, not to mention, the ability to put this "clear layer" in the quick menu too if someone needs it. Maybe this "clear layer" can be mapped to a special gesture too? That "3 fingers right and left gesture" in procreate is interesting

4 - We can use a switch in the layer panel to "compact" the layer panel (showing only big thumbnails) for a workflow where we don't need to see the names of the layers. All the advanced options like opacity, blending and the strip of icons at the base of the layer panel, can be accessed with a click on the thumbnail when we are in "compact mode". A "visibility" and a "lock" icon over the big thumbnail can be handy when we are in this compact mode (like the icons we have in the sketchbook layer stripe)

An option in Artstudio / Preferences / Interface to adjust the size of the layer thumbnail in the compact mode would be interesting. Since the "compact mode" is meant to be super clean and compact, a slider in the compact layer to define the thumbnail size would be against the concept

Or maybe, instead of changing the size of the layer thumbnail in compact mode using the preferences menu, we can do it visually, the thumbnails can increase in size while we are in compact mode if we can "stretch" the panel to the side, making the panel not only taller but wider too - maybe dragging from the corner of the panel?

Thanks @icezimy, my bad, I never noticed the caption of the popup "Enter title or SF SYMBOL NAME"

Just downloaded the free "SF Symbols Browser" on iPad. My toolbar is beautiful now - Scrap the number 6 request

1 - File - New - New empty - 2732x2048 144ppi
2 - Draw some lines
3 - Click the layers button - click the "trash can" to delete the layer
4 - Click the "plus sign" to add a layer
5 - Using the fingers, slowly pinch in to "zoom out" the canvas - You will see a "phantom image" of the previously deleted layer

ipad pro model MPLJ2CL/A