[Gimp-developer] Hue-Saturation tool with gradients

[Danko Dolch]

Hi Guillermo!

Guillermo Espertino wrote:
> Marius B wrote:
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that nobody is interested in this enhancement, but IMO it`s a
>> nice feature that is worth discussing.
>> I would like to hear your opinion about my mockup of this dialog
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=92732
>> in bugreport
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461658
>>
>> I know it`s not perfect, but it`s obvious for me, that the current one
>> needs some redesign.
>>     
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that mockup basically aims to 
> change the aspect of the dialog without adding any enhancement. The 
> tool does exactly the same but the dialog looks like Photoshop's one.
>   
Does it? I havn't used PS since a long long time... if it looks like PS 
then I have to have a look at PS but I don't expect to find there 
highend visualisation functions like in motion picture color grading 
tools nor the cool discreet like preset banks... ;-)

Yes exactly the same except for:

- the more visual primary color selection with enhanced visualisation
- powerful storage banks for test setups
- a drop down preset lib
- loading and saveing of settings
- added compare tool
- sliders with scale marks and middel point mark

finally you can say it's exactly the same ;-)

> The only improvement I see is the ability to see the actual influence 
> of the overlap value on the color gradient, wich is cool, but I don't 
> know if it's cool enough to change the whole dialog, that already 
> works fine.
>   
I only had an hour to made the mockup so I don't found the time to 
implement highlight/mid/shadow support or other needful extensions... 
you are right this had to be integrated for future mockups -  and even I 
have to go step by step - next version will show a lot more maybe... ;-)

Until today nobody has integrated this small cool things in a standard 
image editing application - not even that small things... (what sense 
made it to figure out complex things if even the simple ones are not 
realized? ;-)


> Maybe it would be better for future versions to redesign the dialog 
> adding some real enhancements to the tool, like arbitrary 3-point 
> gradient selection and/or a curve for tweaking. In that case, the use 
> of a wheel is better than a linear scale because it matches better 
> with the well known color wheel scheme.
>   

You are absolutely right - lets go and start with this - I really would 
enjoy to integrate all this things into a mockup and discuss pros and 
cons...

> Gez.
>
> p.s.: I support the idea that Campbell Barton suggested a couple of 
> days ago. Maybe it would be better to create a new mailing list 
> focused on functionality discussion. This would avoid the frequent 
> conflict user requests vs. developers priorities and would bring some 
> fresh ideas for the project.
> I don't want to bug any developer with functionality requests if this 
> list is only focused on coding, but I'd really like to have a place 
> for discussing features and useability issues that are also very 
> important for the overall  quality of Gimp.
>   
That would be really great!
I'm a bit modest with posting here because of that...
And where to find the people from the GUI wiki?

Best Regards

Danko