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
something I forgot to add to the crop tool options is "auto rotate"
Useful for people who are cropping photos or illustrations that were drawn on an angle.
AndyFitz
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz@...400...> wrote:
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
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Dave Crossland