Potential improvements to Inherit Alpha in Krita

[Hologram]

@raghukamath

@Hologram

I was immediately convinced that the approach of showing clipped layers below their mask is more intuitive to me.

Also I think this will make it problematic when we have legacy inherit alpha and also when we want to use blend modes on the layer which is going to be clipped. krita’s layer compositing is done from bottom to top and even if it is technically masking a clipping layer. The layer which is going to be used as the mask for clipping is not a mask in traditional sense. Apart from affinity I have not heard anyone do it this way. And our user base will be coming more from clip and photoshop than affinity.

Yeah I agree it needs to be consistent. I didn’t catch on to what was meant by the others, I guess. Nor would it be a good idea to hack the layer calculation to only change the display order in the UI. That’s why @Deif_Lou called my proposal a second system as well.

@raghukamath

@Deif_Lou @Hologram the issue with having opacity and blending mode in one line is that opacity bar becomes small and it might be difficult to slide it to desired value due to space being less. Having said that we can try to see it gives any problem.

There can be a modifier override to make sliders more granular when the modifier key is pressed. Also, there is the option to type 0-10 to get 10% increments for opacity if you hover over the slider with the mouse/ pen.

Note: This should then be treated as a different context than keyboard shortcuts, because it would invoke the keyboard shortcut assigned to the numeric keys otherwise.

In addition, it may be possible to double click on the sliders and input a precise value. Currently, this doesn’t seem to be supported, neither for opacity nor for any of the sliders in the tool options docker.