Are there anyone around who uses the "Overwrite" paint mode of Paint.NET (also in Pixelorama; and in Aseprite as "Copy Alpha + Color"โ€ฆ). Apparently a useful mode for pixel art. Anyone used this in any of these software and would like something in @npub1jxdd...txs3 ? We have some Windows and Linux test builds and we'd welcome feedback:
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Description of the feature A mode for the Paintbrush/Pencil that simply replaces the pixels being edited with the ones placed by...
 Note in the screencast how color and opacity are overwritten (rather than blended with the background red).
This is a follow-up of my previous toot about the mil vs. thou unit which someone is asking us to add in the default units list of @npub1jxdd...txs3. To be fair, at this point, when I see how people disagree even with the name (and the fact that as a software engineer working animation film industry, nobody here knows this unit, engineers and artists alike!), I just wonder if we should add this unit at all. I would add a fifth choice "Add both" but Mastodon only accepts up to 4-choice in polls.
Question to people doing electronics and other fields using very small units: do you use the name "thou" or "mil" for the unit representing 1โ„1000 inch? Considering adding this in unit list in @npub1jxdd...txs3. Wikipedia seems to say that Thou is more common globally (but North America) and it looks like @npub1cf7c...39az (a good reference!) uses "Thou" too. Yet a reporter insists that "mil" is more common and that "thou" wouldn't be understood by engineers. So which is it? ๐Ÿ˜„
Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia
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