Re: [Gimp-user] Why so COMPLICATED?

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

On the other hand, this is clearly a buggy behavior - we should just
open a bug report for that, (and hope it is an easy fix)

On 30 December 2013 15:25, Richard <strata_ranger hotmail com> wrote:
> > On 29 December 2013 17:09, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwidion mpc com br> wrote:
> > > On 28 December 2013 16:15, Richard <strata_ranger hotmail com> wrote:
> > > On a tangent, you just pointed out the biggest flaw with shaped
> > > gradients: You can't specify a gradient length. What's the point of even
> > > having it without that functionality? I'd get faster (more precise,
> > > controllable, etc.) results by brushing the edges by hand.
> >
> > Note that on the script, I could walk around this by performing
> > gaussian-blur + levels
> > on the pasted layer's mask, instead of using gradients.
> > But indeed,you have a point there. I even went to check if the
> > "offset" parameter of the gradient-tool could give one the control missing
> > for shaped gradients, but it has no effect at all.
>
> The worst part is that you HAVE to click AND drag to execute the gradient -
> simply clicking and releasing won't engage it.  So GIMP already has a
> specified gradient length available but is simply ignoring it.
>
>
>
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