So in conclusion:
There's no way to get a stamped effect with transparency and without antialiasing? Presently in GIMP, the two are mutually exclusive.
I can have:
a) An RGB brush with anti-aliased edges and transparency
b) An RGB pencil without anti-aliased edges and without transparency.
Is this correct?
In the meantime, while waiting for a final answer to my question, I tested Paint Shop Pro picture tube.
The PSP Picture Tube does precisely what I want. You get per-pixel stamps with transparency and no anti-aliasing.
Unfortunately, the tool settings are absolutely terrible compared to GIMP.
Its starting to look like I might have to modify GIMP to get what I need.
All that would be necessary is to modify the Pencil tool to use transparency when blitting the brush onto the layer. Such a change sounds incredibly simple --- the worst problem would be adding a UI option to turn on or off the transparency behavior. Is there anyone here who knows enough about the GIMP source code to know how easy this change might be and where to direct me to look if the change were feasible for a newcomer?
There's no way to get a stamped effect with transparency and without antialiasing? Presently in GIMP, the two are mutually exclusive.
I can have:
a) An RGB brush with anti-aliased edges and transparency
b) An RGB pencil without anti-aliased edges and without transparency.
Is this correct?
In the meantime, while waiting for a final answer to my question, I tested Paint Shop Pro picture tube.
The PSP Picture Tube does precisely what I want. You get per-pixel stamps with transparency and no anti-aliasing.
Unfortunately, the tool settings are absolutely terrible compared to GIMP.
Its starting to look like I might have to modify GIMP to get what I need.
All that would be necessary is to modify the Pencil tool to use transparency when blitting the brush onto the layer. Such a change sounds incredibly simple --- the worst problem would be adding a UI option to turn on or off the transparency behavior. Is there anyone here who knows enough about the GIMP source code to know how easy this change might be and where to direct me to look if the change were feasible for a newcomer?