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Messages - Jim_e

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There is extreme lag using Rope Smoother while inside the smoothing Radius. When out side the radius the Pen moves correctly.  But inside it can be several seconds behind the actual position of the pen and it will "catch up" to it eventual.  This makes starting new lines annoying and hard turns difficult.

I've included a video of the bug.

youtube.com/watch?v=EQHiXlQR0Ag

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The behavior of he brush slider is rather strange depending on the max size of the brush.  I understand dedicating a portion of the slider to the smaller px sizes allows for more accuracy in selection,  but the amount dedicated to the smaller pixels sizes change in a cumbersome way.

For example,  If I set the max brush size to 50 then move the slider halfway, my brush will be 10.  This changes with the max brush size in a bad way.
  • Max Brush: 050  Halfway Size: 10
  • Max Brush: 100  Halfway Size: 20
  • Max Brush: 150  Halfway Size: 20
  • Max Brush: 200  Halfway Size: 20
  • Max Brush: 205  Halfway Size: 5
  • Max Brush: 225  Halfway Size: 6
  • Max Brush: 250  Halfway Size: 6
  • Max Brush: 300  Halfway Size: 8
  • Max Brush: 400  Halfway Size: 10
  • Max Brush: 800  Halfway Size: 20
So at max brush size 800px, 50% of the slider is dedicated to just 20px while the other 50% is has to cover 780px. This becomes strange at 205px max brush size when 50% of the slider is dedicated to just 5px.

I propose this be somewhat more user configurable steps.  Dedicate the first 1/3 of the brush slider to an Absolute PX Amount(ex: 20px) set by the user in preferences,  then set 2/3 mark to be a percentage(ex:66%) of the max brush size and simply interpolate between the marks.  If the max brush size isn't atleast 3x greater than the Absolute PX Amount, then just fall back to a linear interpolation over the whole slider.

It seems this kinda what Artstudio is doing now in the <200px range, and at the >200px range is sets the 50% mark to 2.5% of the max brush size.

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I get that, but I still need access to the tools and options that aren't exposed in Painting and fullscreen mode.  It also doesn't adress that currently you need 2 hands to change tools and colors.

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I've noticed that my palm sometimes registers a press on the HSB sliders causing the tool to switch to the paint brush when I'm doing something else.

I would like a feature to have an option to dock the HSB sliders to the tool bar.  This would prevent false presses and would allow the use of one hand to change the color and the tools being used. I believe it would improve workflows by not having to move the pen from the spot being worked on.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JKl0HaK0AQi8Yyyo6VwkH-x6BcpjWsoA/view?usp=sharing

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Well the reason to use it is because it allows you to set the alpha channel absolutely. Otherwise you’d need to use the select tool.

When you need it, its incredibly usefull. But most of the time you dont need it. It is confusing, but every app ive seen calls it that. Its just convention now.

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What he was trying to do is not what the pencil is for.  It really just a bad name for it(all art apps call it that) . The pencil is specifically for a painting without any transparency, and without it, it can not be soft   The brush tool uses the transparency so it can be soft.

For a smooth stroke though that is the spacing setting in brush settings.


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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Resize of export for png, jpg.
on: December 06, 2018, 07:38:11 AM
I forgot about this.

You can duplicate a Layer to a separate document, and then export it.
What i meant was that on the export menu, if i select Jpg or png, id like an option to resize to a new resolution.

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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Resize of export for png, jpg.
on: November 13, 2018, 08:56:44 PM
For me i usually work in resolutions that are 4 or more times higher than what I intend to release.  I’d like to be able to resize during export since the content is already being flattened to a single layer.

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We really do need locking already.

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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: A general question
on: October 02, 2018, 07:33:13 AM
+1, I would also like to be done with PS.  Affinity seems to be the next best thing for cross platform PS replacement, but I would greatly prefer Artstudio.

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For the Ipad version, if the user has selected layers from a group but not the whole group and layers from another group, there should be a warning that they may have a layer selected they didn’t realize. Happened to me twice already in a recent work that was getting kinda big, caught it both times but i can see this being easy to miss under the right circumstances.


Really this kind of merging doesnt make sense since its behaviour isn't intuitive.

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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / About the planned vector tools.
on: September 24, 2018, 12:01:06 PM
For the planned vector tools, I was wondering if you would consider a suggestion for whenever that might happen.  In apps like afinity designer, they have a brush tool were lines can have their line weight adjusted after the fact.  I think this would be a fantastic feature for cartoonist.

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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Features that should be added.
on: September 20, 2018, 11:24:50 PM

- Brush Rotation - I am not talking about dynamis, but more like adapting the current brush to a specific situation. Take for example an elliptic brush. Depending on the orientation (vertical or horizontal) you get different results. It would be cool to be able to rotate the brush to fit the situation. Otherwise I have to rotate the canvas and more or less guess.
With a slider I could make a stroke, see if the result fits and if not just rotate it a bit more. I hope it`s clear what I mean otherwise I will post an example.
You currently can do this.  If you go to brush settings and select stamp, you can rotate the angle there.


Color wheel is very similar to square color picker with the slider set to hue.  Value is still represented on a single edge, but max saturation is not confined to a single point.

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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Move Tool Bug o;
on: September 18, 2018, 02:49:37 AM
I just dicovered a weird bug where now when I try to move something in a layer it like duplicates it instead of just moving it?? And when I select something it moves and duplicates the whole layer!
In the bottom right you have the duplicate switch on. Its useful if you want to reuse an asset repeatedly. Like making a faux starfield.

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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Easy way to draw straight lines?
on: September 08, 2018, 07:10:32 PM
Oh ok :) maybe gets faster in the future. Thanks
I think the issue is that blending has to occur and having an entire line blend while live would be to demanding.

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