Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Tux Paint 0.9.21 beta 3 for Windows XP/2000/Vista/7

[henry t. <tor...@ya...>]

Is there any way to improve the edge defining functions across the spectrum of Tux Magic tools? Especially when used with STAMPS. (which have a mask that defines the edge I believe)

My basic test of viability is using the fill tool and hope the image retains coherency.

A silhouette is two colors and a positive negative shape relationship (like the button)... not grey lines on a black field. If I could fill the outer space with white it would be a two step process to achieve a silhouette and still useful... but hand painting a reliable edge especially without magnification of a area is durn frustrating.

A cartoon or coloring book image is a black line around spaces which can be actually filled...like on the starter images... making the black line another pixel or so wider might be a big help so long as the fill barrier had no gaps. I can show my kids how to clean up the black line if it has a bunch of little spots in it a bunch of gaps is much harder and produces less satisfactory outcomes.

I do love the new apply to entire image feature. You could add it to a lot of other magic tools too

a few seeming oddities:

The Rails magic is topographic and unrelated to the elevation view of the train cartoons in Stamps or to the isometric use of rails in the mine stamp... some alignment allowing features to match up would be very welcome

Real Rainbow is not all that "real"  OR aligned to science and art education or the sequence:  Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet... no big pink space at the bottom... it looks more like a poor photograph.

I'm still trying to get a Picasso cubist effect or anything Picasso like out of "Picasso" I even try to draw the image shown on the Button with no luck what so ever.

Tux's Mosaic is more a very soft fine gravel mosaic texture with no sense of tiles which characterize the technique AND the Mosiac Button icon. Many Mosaic tiles are square... the random shape is more a post-Gaudi and modern style. A scaling slider could help with tiles too

Remember some of us are Art Teachers and it is hard to teach a concept if the software doesn't support it very well. All I have is a computer lab now... no traditional media studio left.

Giving Rain magic additional colors to play with could produce leaf and feather texture... I'm sure the boys would discover possibilities of blood.

Flip and Mirror are good BUT can we get a ROTATE? (like the Shapes feature rotates) (Rain at a 45 degree angle!)

The Magic menu is now rather long... is it time to do what was done in Stamps menu and add a left right arrows and multiple Magic menus?


Any way of getting a script or plugin for Adobe that will in Photoshop, Gimp, or Paint Shop convert a Tux image or MS Paint image into a simple stamp just by running it and saving it as a PNG? 

I've made stamps using Paint Shop but the transparency is unreliable... I do not always need all the data features... or extra files. I've occasionally got useful stamps with Paint Shop..just not sure why not reliably or frequently. Been a year or more since I played with the attempt tho. Don't remember what I was doing.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Guy



--- On Sat, 6/20/09, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:

From: Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...>
Subject: [Tuxpaint-users] Tux Paint 0.9.21 beta 3 for Windows XP/2000/Vista/7
To: "Tux Paint Users" <tux...@li...>
Cc: "Tux Paint I18N" <tux...@li...>
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 1:05 AM


If you'd like to beta test Tux Paint on Windows XP, 2000, Vista or 7,
a new beta was made available today ('0.9.21-beta3').  It can be downloaded
from:

  ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/testbuilds/win32/0.9.21/

Some highlights (which means things that need extra attention by
testers :^) )

* New and enhanced Magic tools
  - Blur (entire image)
  - Color and White
  - Color shift
  - Confetti
  - Darken (entire image)
  - Edges
  - Fisheye
  - Fold
  - Glass Tile (entire image)
  - Lighten (entire image)
  - Mosaic
  - Noise
  - Negative (entire image)
  - Picasso
  - Rain
  - Rails
  - Real Rainbow
  - Rosette
  - Sharpen
  - Silhouette
  - Snow Ball
  - Snow Flakes
  - String Edges / Corner / 'V'
  - Tint (entire image)
  - Toothpaste
  - TV
  - Wavelets

* Starter images no longer need transparency.  You can use a 'flat', 100%
  opaque image, and white will be used as the drawing zone in the picture.

* Text Tool now works with right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic),
  including mixing with left-to-right languages (e.g., English).

* Pop-up dialogs (e.g., "Are you sure you want to quit?") look and act
  better when in a right-to-left locale (Hebrew or Arabic).

* Font scoring improvements to help make the most useful fonts for your locale
  appear at the top of the Fonts list in the Text tool.

* Shushwap and Songhay locales now supported.

* Tux Paint should no longer drop out of full-screen mode if you press
  the left or right [Windows] keys on your keyboard.


And to all of you out there who are interested in Tux Paint running in
your language, please try it out and make sure things work and look ok!
(And if you have any translation updates you'd like to send, send them soon
so I can get them into the 0.9.21 release!)

Thanks!!!

-- 
-bill!
Sent from my computer

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