New feature: Comic Panels tool/layer (asking for wishes, needs and ideas of comic artists and others)

Hello , I have worked on CSP with manga tools, so one of the things make workflow very easy and intuituve is specially 2 aspects

Non-destructive layer and visual focused panel

What I mean by non-destructive is when you select the panel on “Layers” you can draw wherever you want on the canvas, but the layer masks all of that so you can always get out of line of the panel’s stroke and you only see what’s in the panel at where it’s placed , like an normal clipping mask, i know CSP treats this layer as an group or a folder, so you can make sub-layers on the group/folder, and then you can hide one or various specific layers on the group/folder , or directly you can hide the entire layers just by clicking on the “show/hide” button that in Krita is an eye i think, well the important stuff here is its non destructive functionality, which makes workflow a lot easier and fluid

The other thing i mentione above was “Visually focused” , this is just that when you select an specific comic panel , the entire canvas turns on a semi-transparent color, usually is light blue on CSP, but just the panel you select stays the same, is like an stencil (a sheet that you cut a shape and you put as a layer)
It is a cheeky good visual help for distracted people like me and a visual help on those artists who draw THE PANEL and they stay hours drawing and then you finish and then they need to go to the other panel and you forgot that because you were hyperfocused on that last panel and you mess it up, is just great for real haha, improves workflow a lot not gonna lie.

This are my initial recommendations, if i end up with other details, I’ll suggesting if they worth.

Blessings

-Nahum.cm

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