Point-and-click tool to create guides?
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| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | wwp | 09 May 19:47 |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | Alexandre Prokoudine | 09 May 19:54 |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | C R | 09 May 20:02 |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | wwp | 09 May 20:23 |
| 1462826797524.387432493@boxbe | 10 May 21:14 | |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | Joseph Bupe | 09 May 21:30 |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | C R | 09 May 20:30 |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | wwp | 09 May 20:41 |
| Point-and-click tool to create guides? | wwp | 09 May 20:20 |
Point-and-click tool to create guides?
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could be even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While moving the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Regards,
wwp
Point-and-click tool to create guides?
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could be even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While moving the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
Alex
Point-and-click tool to create guides?
This is also sub-function of the measure tool. To create a horizontal guide, place a marker on the spot, and ctrl-click it To create a vertical guide, place a marker on the spot and alt-click it
-C
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could be even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While moving the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
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Point-and-click tool to create guides?
Hello Alexandre,
On Mon, 9 May 2016 22:54:12 +0300 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could be even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While moving the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
Hah. Dragging from the rulers does exactly what I need, the feature already exists. Thanks!!
Regards,
wwp
Point-and-click tool to create guides?
Hello C,
On Mon, 9 May 2016 21:02:21 +0100 C R wrote:
This is also sub-function of the measure tool. To create a horizontal guide, place a marker on the spot, and ctrl-click it To create a vertical guide, place a marker on the spot and alt-click it
Nice too, thanks for the tip! :-)
Regards,
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could be even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While moving the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
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wwp
Point-and-click tool to create guides?
What would be nice is a manual entry box for moving the measure tool markers around (in the Tool Options for measure). This way you could type in the exact value(s) you want, and use ctrl-click and alt-click to make your markers how you like with better precision than the mouse pointer allows.
Just a thought.
-C
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:23 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello C,
On Mon, 9 May 2016 21:02:21 +0100 C R wrote:
This is also sub-function of the measure tool. To create a horizontal guide, place a marker on the spot, and ctrl-click
it
To create a vertical guide, place a marker on the spot and alt-click it
Nice too, thanks for the tip! :-)
Regards,
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could
be
even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While
moving
the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
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On Mon, 9 May 2016 21:30:48 +0100 C R wrote:
What would be nice is a manual entry box for moving the measure tool markers around (in the Tool Options for measure). This way you could type in the exact value(s) you want, and use ctrl-click and alt-click to make your markers how you like with better precision than the mouse pointer allows.
Right!
Even ore because clicking the spot line (layer boundary, one-pixel wide line) is a bit difficult - but maybe it's just me.
Regards,
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:23 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello C,
On Mon, 9 May 2016 21:02:21 +0100 C R wrote:
This is also sub-function of the measure tool. To create a horizontal guide, place a marker on the spot, and ctrl-click
it
To create a vertical guide, place a marker on the spot and alt-click it
Nice too, thanks for the tip! :-)
Regards,
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides could be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number of clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon my (long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick the create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could
be
even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While
moving
the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide location that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
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Point-and-click tool to create guides?
I only wish the free select tool had a toggle option for drawing guides (horizontal, vertical diagonal) more like how the free select operates could be better.
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What would be nice is a manual entry box for moving the measure tool markers around (in the Tool Options for measure). This way you could type in the exact value(s) you want, and use ctrl-click and alt-click to make your markers how you like with better precision than the mouse pointer allows.
Just a thought.
-COn Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:23 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello C,
On Mon, 9 May 2016 21:02:21 +0100 C R wrote:
This is also sub-function of the measure tool. To create a horizontal guide, place a marker on the spot, and
ctrl-click
it
To create a vertical guide, place a marker on the spot and alt-click it
Nice too, thanks for the tip! :-)
Regards,
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:47 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if the idea of a point-and-click tool to create guides
could
be a good one?
The idea there is to directly create guides with a minimum number
of
clicks in order to speed up a production process. It is based upon
my
(long, subjective and perfectible) experience w/ the Gimp 2.x.
The way of doing it could be, for instance: in one click you pick
the
create-guide tool from the side dock, then you click on the image: it creates a horizontal or vertical guide at this click's x or y - horizontal or vertical axis could be determined using ctrl or shift modifier. Clicking in the margin (outside the layer boundary) could
be
even more intuitive, up/down margin to create vertical guides, left/right to create horizontal ones, still for instance. While
moving
the mouse pointer with this tool, a "live" guide shadow could be displayed, in order to provide a visual clue about the guide
location
that you validate when you click to create it.
Any thought?
Just to make sure I get it right...
Instead of
1. Hovering your mouse pointer over the ruler. 2. Clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button to create a new guide.
...you want
1. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbox above the 'point-and-click tool' and click it. 2. Go to the location where you want a guide and use a modifier to create either vertical or horizontal (or both) guides.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that's about the same amount of step in comparison to something that has been around for years :) You you get guide position preview too.
Hmmm? :)
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