Thanks Birthe
Tobias: "Note: I could not find out how to initialize the canvas with a different width and height yet."
Here's a first, the settings are in
$:/core/modules/widgets/edit-bitmap.js
var DEFAULT_IMAGE_WIDTH = 300,
DEFAULT_IMAGE_HEIGHT = 185;
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Experiements with images
I looked into the 300 x 185 proportion and guess what? It turns out that the width to the hight is the golden ratio
To make you sketches look pleasing to the eye, set your stroke width to some value related to the canvas.
* divide 185 by 1.6 or make some squares of 185 px
I don't think we need too much flexability: the proportion is most important thing. Golden section portrait and landscape and a square of the smaller length.
For smaller images I used the font-awesome re-sizing classes then took screenshots of the image and dragged them back in as .png images.
A few points
- I like the process, its kind of fractal, things stay in proportion...
- I constrained the colour palette to ones in the TW poster. I took a screenshot of the fish and added it to the colour picker
- I made some buttons with png and played with making them round and adding some css filter transitions hover.
- I made a big new drawing button which generates a tiddler from a template.
PNGs are lightweight and easy to work with (esp on Mac book - you can snip parts of the screen and they save as png)
Clone an image, add something new.. its a start of animation. There are also animation posibilities with CSS transitions and great fun to be had with effects designed for photos
Children's fun
My daughter (6) and I drew some pictures. I used an example where you can set the background of the tiddler to an image, then exported it as html.
I opened the html file, then reduced the size of the page in the browser. I took and other screenshot and printed it out: the image from tiddlyWiki converted to a wall paper pattern.
We also made a short story. We drew a head, and transcluded it into a tiddler. Then a couple of links to new tiddlers - interactive story... simple
Attached is a tid that I currently have in my sidebar,
Alex