Herbert123 hat geschrieben: I am aware that Photoline is not aiming to be the best digital painting app in the world (nor do I think this is wanted or needed), but I would like to request a couple of features to allow for more control:
PhotoLine needs to first implement the one feature it lacks (compared to the competition): the ability to create complex, non-symmetrical vector shading. Then we would finally be able to do complete illustrations exclusively as vector graphics. The ideal way to implement this would be with Diffusion Curves, but implementing "gradient meshes" would be a decent enough alternative.
Once we've got that, then PL's digital painting capabilities could be addressed. It already does a nice job of simulating "dry"
media such as pencil, charcoal, pastels, and Conte crayons. And, of course, its outstanding variable-width vector drawing simulates pen-and-ink drawing to an excellent degree.
It's the "wet"
media capabilities that are missing; specifically watercolour and oil.
By way of example, the only thing I liked about PaintShopPro was its "
Artistic Media" tools. It uses a special "
Artistic Media" layer and a set of "
Artistic Media" tools -- the AM tools can only be used on the AM layer, and the AM layer can only be painted on by the AM tools. One can manipulate the AM layer for effects like keeping it "wet" or drying it. There's also a real nice Mixer panel that allows putting globs of colour on the panel and smearing the colours together, just like working with a palette knife and paint on a palette. The mixed areas of colour can be selected for use by the watercolour brush and oil painting brush. Nice.