Change background for costume editor

FireFlakes_1

Have you ever been annoyed by those white and light blue squares on the background of the editor? Wishing that you could change it because it hurts your eyes trying to draw/erase something that has a light colour, and the background just makes it worse? Well, I'm sure you're sick of it. So here's my suggestion: Adding some more presets to the background of the costume editor only. It WON'T show up on the screen, it would just be a tool for the costume editor, like how the current background doesn't show up. Now here's what I was thinking in terms of the presets:

The first one (a bit of a darker touch):

The second one (lighter than the last):

And the third (Modified version of the current one):

And the fourth one would be the current one (Even though we all know what it looks like, I'm just putting here cuz some of us might not):

Also there could be like some other options of just plain colours.

Now I know you're thinking “Well why not just put a huge square of a certain colour and put it under a your work and delete that square later”, well heres what I say to that.

First of all, that could work out, but then you'd constantly have to put the square back if you have to change something and you're irritated by the light background. Plus, im saying it for both vector and bitmap, and if you have to erase something in bitmap, there would be no point in putting that square under all your work because then it would also erase that square you put. And not all of us prefer the vector.

So what do you think?

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Last edited by FireFlakes_1 (Feb. 23, 2021 16:11:55)

StevenTheSquare

Support. And they should also make the editor fill the screen for bitmap. I get why you can look outside the full size for vector, but it makes no sense for bitmap.

sportfan999

The current checkerboard background represents transparent space. This is how it is with all images.

Last edited by sportfan999 (Feb. 19, 2021 20:21:32)

cs4715962

I support. When I'm making eyes I can't see what I'm doing because the background is white

and I use Vector a bit to shape things and make thing un-pixellated

Ihatr

Like someone else said earlier in the thread, the current pattern is what's used to represent a transparent background, so I see why they chose it. I just don't think a different pattern would really work as when exporting it exports as a .png. I really don't have an opinion.

FireFlakes_1

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the2000

All of these look way more disorienting than the current background. As a bitmap animator, I've never had any problems with this. I remember that a similar website with a somewhat similar art editor had a problem where your vision would go weird if you looked at the grid for too long, so I don't think that Scratch has it particularly bad as it is.

the_cat_meows

FireFlakes_1 wrote:
Have you ever been annoyed by those white and light blue squares on the background of the editor? Wishing that you could change it because it hurts your eyes trying to draw/erase something that has a light colour, and the background just makes it worse? Well, I'm sure you're sick of it. So here's my suggestion: Adding some more presets to the background of the costume editor only. It WON'T show up on the screen, it would just be a tool for the costume editor, like how the current background doesn't show up. Now here's what I was thinking in terms of the presets:

The first one (a bit of a darker touch):

The second one (lighter than the last):

And the third (Modified version of the current one):

And the fourth one would be the current one (Even though we all know what it looks like, I'm just putting here cuz some of us might not):

Also there could be like some other options of just plain colours.

Now I know you're thinking “Well why not just put a huge square of a certain colour and put it under a your work and delete that square later”, well heres what I say to that.

First of all, that could work out, but then you'd constantly have to put the square back if you have to change something and you're irritated by the light background. Plus, im saying it for both vector and bitmap, and if you have to erase something in bitmap, there would be no point in putting that square under all your work because then it would also erase that square you put. And not all of us prefer the vector.

So what do you think?

I support it, but the current background is standard for all vector art programs like Pixilart and Google drawings, so I doubt that it will change.

FireFlakes_1

the_cat_moews wrote:
I support it, but the current background is standard for all vector art programs like Pixilart and Google drawings, so I doubt that it will change.

ok, but i'm just talking about certain types of background to be added that aren't so light. Also, i'm pretty sure there are other ways to tell others that it's a png image. like perhaps darker squares?

Maximouse

I think the mockups all have too much contrast. It might be a good idea to just add a dark version of the background.

Ihatr

FireFlakes_1 wrote:
Also, i'm pretty sure there are other ways to tell others that it's a png image. like perhaps darker squares?

You don't see darker squares when you find and download a PNG image off of google and the like, Scratch's current pattern is the standard for all PNG images.

Maximouse

Ihatr wrote:
FireFlakes_1 wrote:
Also, i'm pretty sure there are other ways to tell others that it's a png image. like perhaps darker squares?
You don't see darker squares when you find and download a PNG image off of google and the like, Scratch's current pattern is the standard for all PNG images.

Not specifically PNG images – all images with transparency.

the2000

Maximouse wrote:
I think the mockups all have too much contrast.

Yeah, that's what I said. All of the mock-ups look way more disorienting than the original.

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lol its been forever since the last post on this

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