Hi llazyad,
Thanks for your friendly report.
Here are some thoughts about your suggestions :
- The ability to make custom shortcuts for everything
This isn't a priority for us at the moment but if we have a lot of users request we will re-think about it.
- a checkbox for temporary switching the tool wile holding the shortcut for it and a slider to set the miliseconds you'd have to hold for the tool to become temporary ( like if i hit the key it would switch tool and if i pressed and held the key for more then 60miliseconds it would be temporary and it would switch back to my original tool when i let go
Good idea, we’ll think about it. All the settings may be a little overkill though.
- maybe ctrl + space = zoom and shift + space = rotate and also when rotating the image should snap in the 90 degree range.. that would be nice.. maybe a checkbox for snapping that could be disabled but defenetly enabled by default
Snapping is definitely an option that will be added soon (probably something with a Shift or Ctrl + the shortcut to enable it). We would like to keep the other common navigation shortcuts as simple as possible though.
- the ability to use your current brush as an eracer after hitting a shortcut
It will be added very soon too. When pressing the E the current brush will be automatically (and temporarily) transformed into an Eraser.
- maybe even the ability to make custom menus and the ability to set them to right click and shortcuts so they pop up when you hit the shortcut
We’d like to avoid too many interface customization for the time being. We think that Black Ink is not complex enough to justify these options yet.
i really hope you make this program amazing cause it started out extremely awesome and painters / designers need a new home since we all sort of hate photoshop lately but as sluggish and awkward as it works.. it still gets the job done.. but i'd switch in a microsecond if this program became more workflow friendly,
Our goal is not to compete with photoshop, we have a different way of thinking about creation and we will not replicate its many features, we’ll stay all about drawing and generating.
But yes, when simply drawing I have no doubt you’ll end up feeling much more comfortable in Black Ink
Cheers