Painter's Colour Assistant Tool Kit Code
Allows painters to experiment with mixing paints (virtually).
Status: Alpha
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DESCRIPTION: This software is intended for use by painters who wish to experiment with mixing paint (virtually) and to plan palettes. See section USAGE below for more details. STATUS: This software is still under development and is only Alpha standard at this time. REQUIREMENTS: This software requires: - Python 2.7 or later - PyGTK2 2.24 or later - PyCairo 1.8.10 or later INSTALLATION: It is NOT necessary to install this software in order to use it. All that is necessary for the applications to be usable is for the base directory to be in the usere PATH environment variable. USAGE: This software has a number of components: 1. The Palette Planner (pcatk_palette.py) is a GUI that (once the user has slected some tube colours for use) enables the painter to mix new colours by specifying the number of "parts" of tube (or earlier mixed) colours to be used in a mixed colour. This mixed colour can then be saved to a list of mixed colours (along with notes about its intended use) and used in the mixing of further colours. When the painter has finished planning their palette they may print out a report to be used as a reference while completing the painting for which the palette was planned. An analysed image viewer is included as part of the palette planner and displays a number of transformations of a (user selected) digital image from which the user can copy samples for pasting into the mixed colour area for matching. 2. The Tube Series Editor (pcatk_editor.py) is a GUI that enables the painter create sets of tube colours for use in the palette planner. The recommended method is to produce a "sampler" of the actual paints to be used on a suitable medium, take a digital photograph and then cut and paste from that photograph into the tube series editor where its buttons can be used to match the colour. A Colour Sample Viewer is included as part of the editor. An example colour sampler file has been added and should be loaded by the viewer the first time it is launched (and after that it should remember the last file used). TUBE SERIES: At this time, the only tube series data included in the distribution is for an imaginary set of paints known as the "Ideal Paint Colours Series" which features six colours equally spaced around the colour circle (at maximim chroma) together with black and white. This series can be found in the file "ideal.tsd" in the "data" subdirectory of the source distribution and in the directory "$ROOT/share/PaintersColourAssistant/data" in installed distributions. On Linux $ROOT should be "/usr" and to facilitate finding the file on Windows the file selector should open in that directory when the "Tube Colour Series/Open" menu option in the Palette Planner is invoked. INTERNATIONALIZATION: The code is extensively hooked for i18n but (at the moment) there is no localization available for languages other than English. BUGS: It would be greatly appreciated if any bugs encountered by users are reported by creating an issue at: <http://sourceforge.net/p/pcatk/tickets/> or emailing: <pcatk-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net> FEATURE REQUESTS: Feature requests can be made by creating an issue at: <http://sourceforge.net/p/pcatk/tickets/> or emailing: <pcatk-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=386122&atid=1604800> or emailing: <darning-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net> FEATURE REQUESTS: Feature requests can be made by creating an issue at: <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=386122&atid=1604803> or emailing: <darning-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>
