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

[Caroline F. <car...@go...>]

2009/6/20 Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...>:

>
>> 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.
>
We could rename silhouette but I'm not sure what to. What is it actually doing?

>
>> 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
>
> *sigh*  Yes, Mosaic is kind of a side-effect tool.  The student who created
> a few other tools decided that if they mixed them together (applied a few
> of the other tools he was working on).  I agree that it doesn't look
> like a real mosaic, but it's pretty close.

I suggested the mosaic tool but it's not really what I wanted. I
wanted what the gimp has, as below.

> I'd love to see it replaced by something similar to what The GIMP has.
>
>  http://www.fotothing.com/photos/452/452160e2bb9acbee8bed8697e2399ea9.jpg
>
> Especially if we could 'paint' with it.
>
>
>> 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.

:(

I dunno how you can teach art without paint, paper etc.

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

Caroline