[enhancement]: Inpainting Ideas

[JeffJag-ETH]

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I've gone through the tutorials and i'm rocking with inpainting on my latest series of artworks. I REALLY like the functionality you've built so far, so these are tweaks to bring it even further for the next level of advanced users. I'm a long-time photoshop power-user with keyboard shortcuts and a lot of the advanced features for over 20 years. (I'm 44). Using inpainting in InvokeAI in-depth the last 4 days I've come up with a couple suggestions i think could help streamline the workflow.

First, I think there should be a separate brush for inpainting masking and for raster images - remembering different brush sizes for both - and automatically switching to the last selected "raster" or "inpaint mask" layer when switching back and forth between these two brushes.
I think the (B) shortcut should stay raster paintbrush shortcut. inpainting masking brush could be (N) maybe? or whatever you think works best. But my reasoning comes from constantly switching back and forth between a small brush for painting in raster images to rough in a new concept or some new shapes to help guide the ai... but then going back to a huge brush for inpainting masking that same area before hitting ctrl+enter for invoke generation.
this would save a lot of [ and ] for brush size up and down - remembering the size of the brush but also switching the focus of the selected layer back and forth between raster and inpaint mask layers. This alone would be a huge time savings and workflow streamline for me.

Second, eye dropper tool (I) or (alt while using brush), should consider switching from single pixel sampling to 3 pixel average or 5 pixel average. or at least the option to set that in settings. This will solve the problem of trying to sample a very noisy area and getting a very light or dark color selection when our eye is seeing a mid-tone. I use the workflow of sampling a color then painting with it very often in digital painting workflows so having this averaged color sampling ability (which is how Photoshop does it btw), would make it a lot easier to get that "visible" color vs the RGB of the single pixel you select.

Third, some zoom keyboard upgrades we can borrow from premiere pro and after effects... the - and = keys (under the minus and plus, without shifting first), as zoom out and in respectively. Browser seems to pre-empt the CTRL+- and CTRL++ as zooming out and in of the webpage itself, so using those same keys without the ctrl modifier would let us zoom in/out quickly without having to go to the zoom buttons or the set zoom levels CTRL+1, CTRL+2 ... etc.

Last, some things I love about the current version that I think should stay the way you have them. I love them and you're right on track with these features:

• Merge Visible... awesome. Thank you.
• Yellow Invoke "Add to Queue" button in the left side brush panel in the inpainting layers view.
• Photoshop like features. Alt key for context aware color selection while brush tool is selected! love this. - bracket keys for brush size increase/decrease.

If you want, I'd be happy to do a zoom/google-meet to share my screen and walk through some of the workflows I use. Even more so, I would love to happy to join the weekly livestreams on discord to act as a co-host to your current shows on youtube. I've loved scraping through the archives and learning how to make the most of these tools. I could serve as a sort of "in-the-know" side-kick and someone to keep the conversation moving. I have a teaching background and twitter spaces/clubhouse background in streaming. would be happy to help in the name of art and helping inspire creators.

here's an example of what I made tonight with Invoke. Thanks for your time. Great work everyone!!
JeffJag

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