Mirror with background color

[omid3098]

while we use mirror with transparency, with background color, there is no transparent for mirrored pen.

[Karl DD]

This is actually intentional as the background colour does not have transparency at all - it merely draws with the background colour to cover up shapes.
It is easily changed though, it sometimes might be useful to have transparency in the background colour?

[omid3098]

I've got this:

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as you see there is bad result when I want to use background color with transparency when I want to decrease shadows on my sketch.
is there other way to do this? or will it be fix?
thanks.

[VelenoSangue]

Hi Karl,
On both my computers with the current version of alchemy, painting with the BG color uses the same amount of transparency as the FG color, instead of always being 100% opaque as with previous versions. I'd assumed it was intentional, but based on your response here it wasn't. I can't remember if this started with the 7.0 or 7.1 update. I find it a bit faster to us "x" to switch between FG and BG rather than using "i" for the eyedropper since it's an extra step to click the sample area, so being able to use the bg color with transparency has been a welcome change. The ideal for me would be for FG and BG to have their own transparency slider, where the slider for FG shows up when FG is active, and the one for BG shows up when BG is active.

I've also been able to reproduce the issue that omid is having. The side that you are actively drawing uses transparency with the BG color, and on the mirrored side it comes out opaque. I also just noticed that if I turn on Color Switcher and enable randomized transparency, painting with the BG color will have transparency on both sides.

[Karl DD]

Thanks for that.

Yes I see what you mean. I'll work on implementing transparency for the BG then and figure out a way to control both FG & BG transparency using the sliders.

Let me move this topic to known bugs...

[Zyphre]

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xK ... directlink

Another example of this in case anyone isn't understanding what is being referred too.

[Karl DD]

The ideal for me would be for FG and BG to have their own transparency slider, where the slider for FG shows up when FG is active, and the one for BG shows up when BG is active.

This bug has been resolved for version 008, using VelenoSangue's suggestion.

> When the foreground color is active, the transparency slider applies transparency to the foreground color.
> When the background color is active, the transparency slider applies transparency to the background color.

Drawing with the either foreground or background color now allows you to have transparency.
The one exception is that the color of the actual background is not transparent.