Hi everyone,
I've got a couple of thoughts I'd like some feedback on.
Clippaths and Masking are both existing functions we support but Cropping and a transparency tool are features that dont currently exist. There is a process that must be done to achieve those results which I think is redundant work 90% of the time, not to mention hard to learn for new users.
So here's my proposal.
[[ CROP TOOL ]]
Is anyone interested in defining the interaction and rendering of a cropping function?
My assumption would be a tool that helps the user create a <rect> (that is rendered as a inverted filled outline. The tool would instantly draw the rect > selects objects according to the setting > groups that selection (if crop selection is specified) and finally applies a clippath.
We would need display tricks mentioned like rendering a 50% transparent black fill for the area not being cropped during the process.
Rotating the crop could be done with the control point usually reserved for rounding a rect ( as I dont think we want to introduce rounded clippaths when we are talking about something simple like cropping.
also I think this should be have three modal settings in the toolbar: - crop entire document, - crop selected objects (which would require grouping before applying the clippath) - crop current layer ( which would clippath the layer group)
[[ TRANSPARENCY TOOL ]]
We could use a similar approach to create a transparency tool.
In one action we would create a white rect matching the bounding box of the selected object(s) and group + mask to uniformly reveal transparency features similar to xara
anyway what do you think?
Andy