[Tuxpaint-devel] New Magic Tools: Calligraphy, Light and Shift

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Today's trip home on the train took about _5 hours_, but that gave me
PLENTY of time to fiddle around with Tux Paint.

Today's new Magic tools include:

  * Light
    A blurry, 'additive' brush.  As you paint with it, things turn brighter
    and whiter.  Hint: It doesn't really _do_ anything on a white canvas.
    (Try a black one, and go crazy making neon signs :^) )

  * Shift
    Click and drag to reposition your picture.  The edges wrap around.

  * Calligraphy
    A 30-degree brush that gets thinner as you move the mouse quickly,
    and thicker as you move it slowly.  Additionally, your mouse strokes
    are converted from raw points/lines to a bezier curve, to smooth things
    out.

    It's not as fancy as Inkscape's -- which was the inspiration.
    Inkscape has countless options for tweaking its calligraphy brush,
    (angle, size, wiggliness, how much it sticks to a particular angle, etc.)

    See a quick screenshot of it here:
      http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/news/images/tp-calligraphy.png

Enjoy!

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-bill!
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