On Thursday 23 June 2016 08:43:55 C R wrote:
To recap: 1. I think the pencil tool should be renamed "Pixel Tool" if it's to stay in the Tool box. Reasons: A. Jaggies don't make for realistic simulated pencil marks B. There are better pencil-simulation tools in the Brush palate
I am not sure that renaming a tool that old would be a good idea. People know what to look for, and at the end of the day it's just a name. No one expects it to be a realistic pencil. At least no one accustomed to the tool (see Product Vision for the intended target audience).
2. I think Brush settings should be brush specific instead of tool specific, and the brush should remember the modifications made to it instead of the tool storing that information. Reason: I can't think of a situation where you would want to use the current Pencil tool, and Brush tool in tandem. If we're keeping it in the Tool Box just to remember values between brushes, I'm not sure who it's benefiting. :)
I am using the two in parallel all the time when drawing masks. The brush for the edges and the pencil to fill in the bulk. Reason: I want to be sure that anti aliasing doesn't leave half transparent areas. So I have my left hand on the keyboard to hit 'x', 'n' and 'b' and the right hand on mouse/stylus.
3. The Pencil Tool could be gotten rid of entirely if #2 is done, and an anti-aliasing checkbox is added to the brush options.
As Simon already mentioned, there are two levels of anti aliasing/blurring/thresholding/whatever we want to call it. Would that switch turn off both? [...] Tobias
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