https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449468
Bug ID: 449468
Summary: Add shortcut option for a fill layer color selector.
Product: krita
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified
OS: All
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Shortcuts and Canvas Input Settings
Assignee: krita-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: xcau...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Fill layers are incredibly powerful thanks to their built-in alpha mask
functionality. You can basically do paintings where each color is on their own
layer and change those colors out on the fly to get dramatically different
results. This is very useful, especially for texture and concept artists who
want to leverage their painting to allow for color variants of a work with
minimal effort and a fine level of control over the results.
The main problem with the current workflow is that it takes several
keystrokes/mouse clicks to change a fill layer's color, as it is buried in the
layer properties pop-up. Not a big deal if you only need to change one or two
colors, but in real use cases it is common to have a dozen or more fill layers
that need to be adjusted to make a color variant of an image.
So my current proposed solution is to add a color picker pop-up that can be
accessed by a custom user-specified shortcut. It can be left unbound by
default, as to not interfere with users' current setups unless they
specifically want to leverage this feature. My suggestion would be to call it
Fill Layer Color Selector and to place the entry under either Krita > Layers or
Krita > General in the shortcuts tab of the user preferences window.
There's already a simple color selector pop-up available, separate from the
fancy full feature one with the brush palette and such, that can be an ideal
starting point for anyone looking to implement this. (For me the current one
shows up by using shift+I by default, found in the shortcut settings under
Krita > General > Show color selector.) The main changes that would need to be
made to a variant of that is to target the currently selected fill layer's
color value instead of the brush color and to make it silently fail to open if
a fill layer is not selected.
This is a proposed alternative to a previous feature request I made a few years
back: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412928
Since that is pretty old now and in an entirely different category from my
currently proposed solution, it made sense to create a new ticket in the
appropriate location and reference back to the old one, instead of drastically
changing the old ticket. Mostly because I think the docker solution would still
be useful, on the off chance anyone ever decided to try to address this problem
from that direction as well, so worth keeping it around as is.
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