What additional tool do I need to add to my pixel-editing program?
Saturday, May 30, 2020 - 14:54
I'm working on a pixel paint program for Mini Micro. Currently I have 15 tools defined, but I have room for 16!
First column: pencil, brush, fill, eyedropper.
Second column: eraser, draw line, draw rectangle, fill rectangle.
Third column: shift content, ???, draw ellipse, fill ellipse.
Last column: select, blur, lighten, darken.
Pixel artists: what one additional tool would you really love to see in a pixel paint program?
select by color? I always end up needing a tool like that. Clicking a pixel with that tool selects that pixel and all pixels of the same color. good for palette editing.
--Medicine Stormexactly what medicinestorm says, i was going to say the same thing.:) i find that particular feature vital in my work. :)
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Hmmm, that requires me to support non-rectangular selections.
Let me ask: if there are TWO unconnected blobs of the same color, and you click one of them with this tool, does it select both? Or just the one you click (like a paint bucket fill)?
And just so I understand: what do you use this for? I've never had such a tool and I'm having trouble thinking of use cases for it.
@Joe Strout The tool should select ALL blobs of the same colour whether they are connected or not...and is primarily used to replace a certain colour across the whole image.That way you could select the skin colour for example on a sprite sheet, then while its still selected you can use the paint bucket tool (or some custom gui you conjure up) to change the skin colour of the whole character in every pose on the sheet. Hope that helps :)
I was going to suggest color change but selecting tool like described above would also work. Color change tool would simply change all colors under tool with currently active.
Ah, I see!
In that case, I'd rather make a color change tool. The app does not currently have any concept of restricting other tools to a selection; selections are used only for copy/paste.
I know restricting tools to a selection is often a very handy feature, but I think it's just out of scope for this project.
But a color change/replace tool is something I could easily add. It's basically like the paint bucket, but instead of applying only to the connected blob of color you click, it applies to all pixels of that color (connected or not).