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  1.    Luca Ippoliti reacted to a post in a topic: REDESIGNED LAYERS TAB
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    Ok, thanks for the thorough clarification 👍. Yes, it was just a matter of a different naming scheme, but I was assuming correctly, I work with both a lot so thankfully I know them well enough 😉 The one you mentioned is a very good reason for having thumbnails on, but I still see value in having the option to turn them off, mostly in sake of visual minimalism, and to make space for other elements that absolutely necessitate an icon. I'm sure I'll figure out a way to differentiate them with the use of outlines, internal icons or some other visual element that takes up less visual space.
  3. Luca Ippoliti
    I see, this is valuable feedback. I did not know you can disable thumbnails. I'll take that into consideration. Obviously my UI is just a suggestion of the general direction I think it should take, it's not meant as an ultimate solution, especially when there are so many customizable pieces I don't know about. I'd love to work with developers in order to account for every option, but yeah, just take my UI as a general idea. By image and pixel layer, you mean unrasterized and rasterised image? Or something else
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    Yes, they disappear when collapsed. Clicking the Folder Icon would open them. I might add a side arrow to the icon themselves. I find the layer type to be kinda redundant, and adds unecessary visual clutter. It could easily be an option. I forgot to add the fx indicator as that wasn't the goal of the latest post.
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    I understand what you mean, and I agree that Contrast for Hidden layer Names was still too low, I changed it now. However, I disagree on not changing any other element: As far as the Overall contrast relationships are respected, a good user interface should prioritize giving as much useful information as possible at a glance. Anyway, with an elevated Contrast, these two interfaces are (now) virtually identical, so by simply changing the sliders in the UI settings, that issue is resolved, and the choice of having more/less information based on Brightness and such is left up to the user.
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    I tried to go closer to the current design, I'd love to know what you think about this. My main issue with the current design is that, it's possible, but not easy or intuitive, to have a quick understanding of the folder hierarchy. Too many unnecessary lines, and not enough distinction between elements. To me it definitely works better than before, strikes a good balance between familiar, respecting the current indentation design, and modern/more readable design cues. By adding brightness, contrast and opacity based-depth to icons and folders, I think it greatly improves the user's immediate understanding of the Active/ Unactive parts of the program, without adding unnecessary visual complexity.
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    I understand, thanks for the explanation. 👍 I'll look out for that in the future.
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    I understand this design is a pretty radical change from the status quo. There is a difficult task here, to balance customs of long-time users, but also to make the program more accessible and understandable to newbies who haven't interfaced with it before. The most radical change is the folder depth view, the main goal of this change is allowing users to understand the folder "depth" at a glance and across different UI scaling, mainly through the different background brightness subtle use of drop shadows. Both of these are useful and widely used UI conventions. Not sure why you're pointing to my "ego" and what I think "looks cool". My design is not above criticisms, I'm open to feedback and in-depth discussions, not personal attacks. I'm not here to rustle anyone's jimmies, and I'm not sure what I may have said to suggest that. If you don't think it's an improvement, I'd genuinely want to understand why that is, good UI is accessible to everyone, though it may not please everyone. I'll take a look at what improvements I can make on contrast, although it seems fine to me, and seems to be better to other users such as Frozen Death Knight.
  11. Luca Ippoliti
    Yes, thanks. I'm new to the forums, it's not clear to me how to delete the thread. In case any Mods see this, you can close it 😉. The link to the new thread is :
  12. Luca Ippoliti
    I couldn't find a way to delete the thread, I'm new here. I changed so much about my original design that I think it deserved a new thread. As for your concern for folder depth legibility, I think it's a fair one, I have addressed it here and I think this is a reasonable solution. I think good design should not shirk the "average" user experience just to accomodate the "power" user's needs. Both are important, I think this is a good compromise. As for your point about the LAYER colors, I think that's also a valid point. Just having an option to choose which side they appear on should be enough. Additionally, an option for less saturated colors could also work well. After some experimentation, I concluded that having the color and the Visibility toggle be one and the same feel pretty crucial to my sense of clarity, so to me this design feels like the perfect one. I guess giving the user an option to separate them could also be a solution.
  13. Luca Ippoliti
    I can see this being very useful for very large folders, the user doesn't have to scroll up all the way just to close it now. Great suggestion 😉
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    I'll definitely take a look! Thanks for pointing that out! I have used Photoshop as a reference, and I'm aware probably unconsciously have it as a "bias" in my head, but I designed this mostly on personal taste and visual clarity. Per my workflow, being able to very quickly recognize shown and hidden layers at a glance is very important to me. By puttig the icon at the left most side, it emphasizes the importance of that command. ( Let's call it an ON/OFF switch of what is shown" ) If Photoshop personally appeals to my sense of clarity more, that's probably why it looks like that. I don't have any wish to "make it look like Photoshop" I can assure you. I just want to have it look good, that's my only priority. The iconography is one of the "least important" points in my mockup - aside from the eye - I agree that it works pretty well as it is. Personally, I think around 80% of Photoshop looks very dated, but not the Layers Panel.
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    I found the Layers tab really hard to read, and kind of messy overall. Phooshop's is a lot better, but not perfect. So I redesigned it to be more readable at a very quick glance, especially colors and "Show/Hide" toggle, which I find really hard to identify quickly.
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