On 6/22/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote:

Hmmm, maybe your thinking of something more dynamic than I had in mind, I was thinking you would use a menu item to thicken/thin the selected paths based on the underlying image.

That's possible, but I don't like this approach - it's too mechanical, leaving too few room for creativity. Instead, I envision it as a different mode of the thinning/thickening brush where, instead of indiscriminately thinning/thickening selected paths, it does thinning if the background is light and thickening if it's dark, with settable thresholds/force/inversion if needed. This way you can "develop" the background image interactively, emphasizing some of the details and leaving others hidden. What do you think?

But I agree thicken/thin doesn't belong as a subpart of the caligraphy tool. What about the 'draw using another path as a guide' mode, does that need more general exposure too?

No, that one is definitely part of the calligraphic tool - it draws calligraphic strokes with all the same parameters and modes as usual, except they are guided. The thinning/thickening is quite different from that - it does not draw anything at all. Its only connection with the calligraphic UI is that it uses 10x of the calligraphic pen width as the thinning brush width, but it's a poor UI anyway because it's not very obvious. Having its own toolbar will allow it to have its own width control.