Our Kickstarter project is over 50% of the goal now! To say "Thank you!" to our supporters we decided to implement another small feature in Krita: editing of the global selection. Now you can view, transform, paint and do whatever you like on any global selection!
To activate the feature, just go to main menu and activate Selection->Show Global Selection Mask check box. Now you will see your global selection as a usual mask in the list of layers in the docker. Activate it and do whatever you want with it. You can use any Krita tool to achieve your goal: from trivial Brush tool to complex Transformation or Warp tool. When you are done, just deactivate the check box to save precious space of the Layers docker.
This feature (as well as the Isolated Mode one) was a really low hanging fruit for us. It was possible to implement due to a huge refactoring we did in the selections area about two years ago, so adding it was only extending existing functionality. It is really a pity that the other features from the Kickstarter list cannot be implemented so easily :) Now I'm going to dig deep into the Vanishing Points and Transformations problem. Since Saturday I've been trying to struggle through the maths of it, but with limited success...
Next Windows and Krita Lime will have this feature included!
And don't forget to your friends about our Kickstarter!
To activate the feature, just go to main menu and activate Selection->Show Global Selection Mask check box. Now you will see your global selection as a usual mask in the list of layers in the docker. Activate it and do whatever you want with it. You can use any Krita tool to achieve your goal: from trivial Brush tool to complex Transformation or Warp tool. When you are done, just deactivate the check box to save precious space of the Layers docker.
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| Add usual global selection |
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| Deform with Warp Tool and paint with Brush Tool |
This feature (as well as the Isolated Mode one) was a really low hanging fruit for us. It was possible to implement due to a huge refactoring we did in the selections area about two years ago, so adding it was only extending existing functionality. It is really a pity that the other features from the Kickstarter list cannot be implemented so easily :) Now I'm going to dig deep into the Vanishing Points and Transformations problem. Since Saturday I've been trying to struggle through the maths of it, but with limited success...
Next Windows and Krita Lime will have this feature included!
And don't forget to your friends about our Kickstarter!
Hello, Kudos for all your hard work.
ReplyDeleteI am using Krita 2.8.3 on Windows 8 and I don't see any check box "Show Global Selection Mask" under Select menu. Is it because the linux version and windows version don't get updates simultaneously?
-Irfan
Hi, Irfan!
DeleteKrita 2.8.X branch will have only bugfix releases. To test new features on Windows you should download unstable releases of Krita 2.9 (pre-alpha). You can get the links at the Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve