With ImageColor3, I’ve been uploading most of my image assets as white decals with transparency. Obviously, you can’t see white on a white background, so on the website all my decals thumbnails are invisible. I propose that decals and other image assets be displayed on the website (and in studio’s toolbox) with a grid pattern behind them to make it clear what parts of the image are transparent. I think this simple change will make working with images much easier because I would not have to rely on titles or text to differentiate my images.
Here is an example of the problem I’m talking about. Notice how all the decals I’ve uploaded are white text (so that I can color them with ImageColor3) and that they camouflage with the white background of the toolbox.
Here is my proposed solution. This is a screenshot of an example image I made in Paint.NET which has only white pixels with transparency. Paint.NET (and other image editors like Photoshop and GIMP) will render a grid pattern behind the image to let the user differentiate between transparent pixels. This kind of grid background should always be shown behind images.
The thumbnails are too small. The squares would either be to noisy or too big. I’d rather just have a darker shade of white for the background, maybe stripes.
That’s not how images work Ethan… tiled backgrounds are common practice for almost every image editing/viewing app. Blurred and noisy? For what reason exactly, unless you’re adding filters to purposely make it do that. Also, a solid colour as you have suggested would defeat the purpose of having something like this. What if you are using the dark shade of grey as your colour? yeah that doesn’t work. Tiles are fine. So are stripes (if they are in the style of white-to-light-grey)
whatever the method, I support doing this. I too am uploading more all-white decals since the addition of ImageColor3, and this will help a lot. btw, ty for ImageColor3
That’s not how images work Ethan… tiled backgrounds are common practice for almost every image editing/viewing app. Blurred and noisy? For what reason exactly, unless you’re adding filters to purposely make it do that. Also, a solid colour as you have suggested would defeat the purpose of having something like this. What if you are using the dark shade of grey as your colour? yeah that doesn’t work. Tiles are fine. So are stripes (if they are in the style of white-to-light-grey)[/quote]
One of us has misunderstood the thread. The toolbox is not an image editor/viewer, it was designed to be a drag and drop hotbar. If you want it to be something else you should suggest that. The problem is that solid white images are invisible, given that a darker background would solve the problem.
I think it’s more or less a given that the tiles are going to take up space on the screen. If they’re too small they will look like noise, if they’re too big they will be in the way. Not sure where you got blur or filters from.
