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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: Action plan 2
From:       Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-19 17:51:05
Message-ID: AANLkTikRxsYqa0AiTiSJgJhzSL36dslapVLgaEIgH9-5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Cyrille Berger <cberger@cberger.net>wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > I think it makes no sense to not do it that way because Photoshop does
> it.
> > I think that the grayscale version has some advantages over the current
> > solution, e.g. gradients work better. Both version have their problem.
> I'm
> > open for suggestions, but I think there is no ideal solution.
> The biggest problem of the current approach is that it is not easy to draw
> transparency. But it is a general problem that we have with normal painting
> too.
>
> Take a "blank" artist that has not being distorted by photoshop use, and
> ask
> him what is opaque or what is transparent, black or white, white or black ?
> Which is my main issue with grayscale mask, it does not make any sense to
> use
> a color to map transparency.
>
> For the gradient, I can only suggest a convert to alpha option. Currently
> it
> should use the alpha part of a gradient (I wanted to test if that was
> working
> but for some reasons masks seems totally broken on my old trunk checkout).
>
>
Even the Krita behaviour isn't very logical. Why do I have to erase on the
transparency mask to hide some area?

Transparency is needed to indicate that a certain piece of the mask
shouldn't be affected. For example if you have a mask and I want the top
less selected, the middle unchanged and the bottom more select, then I could
control the changed area with the alpha channel while the other "color"
channel would control the direction (more or less selected) of the change.

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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Cyrille Berger <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cberger@cberger.net" \
target="_blank">cberger@cberger.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
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<div>On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Sven Langkamp wrote:<br>
</div><div>&gt; I think it makes no sense to not do it that way because Photoshop \
does it.<br> &gt; I think that the grayscale version has some advantages over the \
current<br> &gt; solution, e.g. gradients work better. Both version have their \
problem. I&#39;m<br> &gt; open for suggestions, but I think there is no ideal \
solution.<br> </div>The biggest problem of the current approach is that it is not \
easy to draw<br> transparency. But it is a general problem that we have with normal \
painting<br> too.<br>
<br>
Take a &quot;blank&quot; artist that has not being distorted by photoshop use, and \
ask<br> him what is opaque or what is transparent, black or white, white or black \
?<br> Which is my main issue with grayscale mask, it does not make any sense to \
use<br> a color to map transparency.<br>
<br>
For the gradient, I can only suggest a convert to alpha option. Currently it<br>
should use the alpha part of a gradient (I wanted to test if that was working<br>
but for some reasons masks seems totally broken on my old trunk checkout).<br>
<div><div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Even the Krita behaviour \
isn&#39;t very logical. Why do I have to erase on the transparency mask to hide some \
area?<br><br>Transparency is needed to indicate that a certain piece of the mask \
shouldn&#39;t be affected. For example if you have a mask and I want the top less \
selected, the middle unchanged and the bottom more select, then I could control the \
changed area with the alpha channel while the other &quot;color&quot; channel would \
control the direction (more or less selected) of the change. <br>

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