Something to consider
Posted: August 26th, 2021, 12:57 pm
I have been long postponing this topic until I finally posted it
Would it be possible to reduce the Paint Tool Redo the last operation to always redoing only the painting effect and leave the current settings as they were set?
The reason is this:
You set most of the sliders as Radius, Transparency, Softness, Brush shape, Mode Color, (also Stylus Pressure who use it) and do some painting. Then you do another step with different settings.
Suddenly you find out that you should or might have used a bit different Transparency or Color or whatever, so you click Undo the last operation and instead of simply dragging a slider a bit, you have to set again most of the controls because they had been reset to the previous step.
With more painting steps with different settings there is high probability that you overlook one or two controls, most often being it (at least in my case) different Softness, Brush shape and even Mode). This often means dozens of clicks to complete a few small small changes. Transparency is an exception as it is easily operated by the mouse wheel.
With the controls fixed at their last position or value, when Undo was applied, you could change what you really needed and the work would go much more smoothly. Even now if you go back and change something you are starting afresh form this point.
I realize that the controls are synchronized with the Undo and Redo buttons and this synchronization would be lost, but not the possibility to Undo or Redo the painting steps. Even now the synchronization with controls works only backwards.
Would it be possible to reduce the Paint Tool Redo the last operation to always redoing only the painting effect and leave the current settings as they were set?
The reason is this:
You set most of the sliders as Radius, Transparency, Softness, Brush shape, Mode Color, (also Stylus Pressure who use it) and do some painting. Then you do another step with different settings.
Suddenly you find out that you should or might have used a bit different Transparency or Color or whatever, so you click Undo the last operation and instead of simply dragging a slider a bit, you have to set again most of the controls because they had been reset to the previous step.
With more painting steps with different settings there is high probability that you overlook one or two controls, most often being it (at least in my case) different Softness, Brush shape and even Mode). This often means dozens of clicks to complete a few small small changes. Transparency is an exception as it is easily operated by the mouse wheel.
With the controls fixed at their last position or value, when Undo was applied, you could change what you really needed and the work would go much more smoothly. Even now if you go back and change something you are starting afresh form this point.
I realize that the controls are synchronized with the Undo and Redo buttons and this synchronization would be lost, but not the possibility to Undo or Redo the painting steps. Even now the synchronization with controls works only backwards.