During the first week of our Kickstarter campaign we collected more than 6500 eur, which is about 43% of the goal. That is quite a good result, so we decided to start implementing the features right now, even though the campaign is not finished yet :)
I started to work on three low-hanging fruits in parallel: perspective transformation of the image basing on vanishing points, editing of the global selection and enhanced isolate layer mode.
It turned out that the vanishing point problem is not so "low-hanging" as I thought in the beginning, so right now I'm in the middle of my way of searching the math solution for it: to provide this functionality to the user the developer must find right perspective transformation matrix basing only on points in the two coordinate systems. This problem is inverse to what everyone is accustomed to solve at school :) This is quite interesting ans challenging task and I'm sure we will solve it soon!
Until I found the solution for maths task, I decided to work on small enhancements of our Isolate Layer mode. We have this feature already for a long time, but it was too complicated to use because the only way to activate it was to select "Isolate Layer" item in the right-click menu. Now this problem is gone! You can just press Alt key and click of the layer or mask in the Layers docker. This enables many great use cases for artists, which now can be done with a single Alt-click:
- Show/Edit the contents of a single layer, without other layers interferring
- Show/Edit the masks. This includes Selection Masks, so you can edit non-global selections very easily (modifying global selections will be simplified later)
- Inspect all the layers you have by simply switching between them and looking into their contents in isolated environment
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| A comic page by Timothée Giet |
There are several more things we are planning to do with the Isolated Mode like adding a bit of optimizations, but that is not for today :)
The next packages in Krita Lime will include this new feature. They are now building at Launchpad and will be available tonight!
And don't forget to spread the word about our Kickstarter!
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ReplyDeleteSo "Isolate later" means, hide all other layers besides this one ... correct me if I'm missing some distinct detail
ReplyDeleteIf so then this is similar to an existing feature in GIMP which I urge you to take a look at it because...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/132947/with-gimp-how-do-i-hide-all-layers-except-the-current-one
... they use the keybinding shift+click (on the layer visibility icon).
I hope I have brought this to your attention early enough, that you will carefully consider your choice of keybindings and that if you do choose to pick something different from the GIMP that you do so knowingly and with good reason and that your design decision gets properly documented in the code.