bulia byak wrote:
On 6/21/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...12...> wrote:
See attached .jpg - my thought is that if you could just cover a picture with some uniform paths (made from stroke to path) and then have thick/thinning applied to them across a regular grid (red dots) you could make these engraved style pics with a lot of complexity and detail very quickly and easily. Obviously my example's just a simple mock up.
I like the idea. All that needs to be done is to combine the trace-background code and the thinning/thickening code. Should not be too difficult to do.
The only problem is, with this addition the thinning/thickening functionality certainly breaks the envelope of the Calligraphy tool. It needs at least one more keyboard modifier and some toolbar controls, which simply won't fit into this already overloaded tool. So I'm thinking about breaking this functionality into a tool of its own, for example Shape Morph, which would give me more room to develop it further. Also it will hopefully improve the visibility of this functionality - it seems to me it wasn't noticed enough so far, although it's extremely useful in a lot of ways (not only for engraving, of course).
So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar?
No objection here to either a tool of it's own (which sounds pretty handy) or the one more button. :-)
-Josh