Hi all,
as an addition to my post on photo retouching in Inkscape, I am posting the following link to works at the Behance web site:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/A-joint-venture-with___/54500
For this kind of approach, it would be great to have available what Donn was talking about: the ability to embed a bitmap editor into Inkscape, and vice versa.
Claus
On Saturday 19 December 2009 12:04:26 Claus Cyrny wrote:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/A-joint-venture-with___/54500
Yeah, those are creepy-good. Hey, if you are dead bored and want to be put to sleep, I wrote a small article about my dream design app a year or so ago. It's on my site at: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/wiki/Particles/DreamDesignApp/
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Claus Cyrny <claus.cyrny@...22...> wrote:
Hi all,
as an addition to my post on photo retouching in Inkscape, I am posting the following link to works at the Behance web site:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/A-joint-venture-with___/54500
For this kind of approach, it would be great to have available what Donn was talking about: the ability to embed a bitmap editor into Inkscape, and vice versa.
Claus
I think a simple addition can help a lot in this regard. You can link an image from the svg file, actually that's the default behavior when you drag a file into the canvas in Inkscape. All that is needed is a simple mechanism to reload the image file from disk (or even some autoreload on change). That way you can edit in your bitmap editor, save to disk and reload in Inkscape.
I've just made a quick test and found no way to reload the image but closing and reopening the svg shows the changes made to the bitmap.
Maybe someone with more knowledge about Inkscape internals could tell us how hard it would be to add an item to the context menu of an image or a button somewhere to reload images from disk.
On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Hystrix wrote:
I think a simple addition can help a lot in this regard. You can link an image from the svg file, actually that's the default behavior when you drag a file into the canvas in Inkscape. All that is needed is a simple mechanism to reload the image file from disk (or even some autoreload on change). That way you can edit in your bitmap editor, save to disk and reload in Inkscape.
I've just made a quick test and found no way to reload the image but closing and reopening the svg shows the changes made to the bitmap.
In general Inkscape should watch the timestamp on the file and reload when it regains focus.
Jon Cruz wrote:
On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Hystrix wrote:
I think a simple addition can help a lot in this regard. You can link an image from the svg file, actually that's the default behavior when you drag a file into the canvas in Inkscape. All that is needed is a simple mechanism to reload the image file from disk (or even some autoreload on change). That way you can edit in your bitmap editor, save to disk and reload in Inkscape.
I've just made a quick test and found no way to reload the image but closing and reopening the svg shows the changes made to the bitmap.
In general Inkscape should watch the timestamp on the file and reload when it regains focus.
Sure, but I find Donn's suggestions much more state-of-the-art. After all, we almost have 2010 by now. My personal addition to Donn's wish list would be: head-mounted display & VRML environment, where the user is totally emerged in what he is doing.
Claus
Claus Cyrny wrote:
environment, where the user is totally emerged ...
It should actually read 'immersed' instead of 'emerged'. Sorry! ;-)
Claus
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