@Anonymous: lol. We didn't retire the audio remixes because ae hated them. We all loved them, the problem is that there were some feature-breaking bugs in Firefox, and it was hard to maintain the code. I think I was the one that pushed the most for audio remixes and even wrote most of the code because I am really excited about the potential for combining audio with images, but I also pushed for their retirement because of the bugs and our need to focus more on image remixing until we can spend the time to really nail audio remixing. I'm still really excited about it, I just want us to do it right.

@Anonymous: The knockout shortcut bug will be fixed in about five minutes.

@dmauro: >it didn't work so well for a lot of people

Wat. How? It's was a simple as MS Paint! And this site is full of people remixing things with the old remixer.

>The new design was prompted by a need for a remixer that more people would be comfortable with using.

Are... Are you calling people stupid?

>It's faster and easier to press larger buttons,

No... not all the time, especially when you have to go through redundant menus. I could click on the eraser tool in maybe half of a second on the old remixer. This new one requires more clicks to be made, and maybe takes 2 seconds more to navigate.

>You also might be surprised that new users can also be daunted when presented with too many options when first using a new interface.

I think you're underestimating your users, which is pretty insulting. Hell, I came in as a newfriend, looked at the remixer, and easily understood how to use it. I'm willing to say I'm not smarter than any other new user, so the old design is probably not as bad as you thought. If it was bad, you would have heard complaints about it, and only that. Plus, if nobody could understand how to use the old remixer, then there wouldn't be as many remixes as there were.

> If this is your primary complaint with the new interface, I think as you begin using keyboard shortcuts more often, you'll start to like this new remixer much more.

If I, or anybody else, wanted to use keyboard shortcuts we would get PaintTool Sai or Photoshop, where the shortcuts are actually needed because of the amount of tools that are in both programs. The remixer isn't like those, and doesn't need those. I, and probably many other people on the site, work with a tablet. Why do we need to take our hands off our tablets to press some keyboard shortcuts when we could easily use our tablets to click on the tools?

@Anonymous: menus are needed for most of the modifications to the tools. i am finding it hard to get accurate depiction of what the tool will do. for example, the size of the brush in the image does not seem to correspond to the size of the brush when you use it. you need to make an extra click to get any of the menues to close when you are done with them.

if you want to pick a color from an area that is covered by the menu you have to just guess where it is. in the new version you can not alter stamps and change how the layers are modified at the same time. with the old remixer you could play around with the opacity of the stamp and the blending options at the same time for better results. perhaps adding layer opacity would be a good workaround.

i always found the original remixer very intuitive but some of the people i have shown it to were definitely confused or intimidated by it

sadly, this will prbably be the last straw. I don't feel like relearning a now crappier remix tool. I think I'm just going back to photoshop. the community here was getting very 13 anyway.

@Anonymous: I didn't hate them :( Audio remixes were really cool, but what dmauro said is accurate.

@Anonymous: Tried something and lucked into a workaround so it seems to be a lot better. Let me know what you think.

At the end of the day it's a huge bug in Safari, and they don't seem to be fixing it any time soon.

@Anonymous: Figured out what the problem was. That spiderman stamp is actually an animated gif >_< http://canv.as/ugc/original/fff6b7c8c145f41b535738086393a12d285fc83d.gif

@timothy: leave it to spiderman...

@calhaus: Oops sorry - I read over them before. #1 and #3 are definitely bugs we'll fix, thanks. #2 is a design decision that we're reconsidering. as for #5, there is a new slider, it's just not very discoverable yet - you have to click and drag the picker in the sidebar. #4 is also on our radar, thanks.

Is there an extension to use the old remixer?

@ae: would it be posible to mark stamps as favorites or have some sort of listing of what stamps you use the most?

Here's the deal, this new layout sucks, period!

@bhudapop: That would be a cool feature - if you want, add it to our feedback page so others can vote on it, thanks! http://canvasnetworks.uservoice.com/forums/110153-general-feedback

@Anonymous: We removed the outlines on anything but white text for now - we're rethinking the text tool now though as it does need more work. Saving custom colors isn't gone for good either.

@ae: thank you

@ae: Now that, actually sounds good. As soon as the custom colors come back, I'mma remix again.

Sorry, to clarify, we're not about to bring the old custom colors back but we're certainly thinking about how to improve color selection. Thanks for the feedback!

@ae: can you bring the old remixer back?

BTW, I just added keyboard shortcuts for swapping and merging layers - N and M, respectively. Go hog wild :D

@ae: seriously though, the new remixer is cumbersome. Can we have the option to use the old one?

@Blackout: Sorry you're not feeling the new remixer. We won't be bringing back the old one.

We'll keep listening to feedback, user testing, and improving the Remixer, but this is the only one we're going to work on.

@ae: interdasting. thx

@ae: But as for saving custom colors...?

@Jiakko: This! I want!

@Jiakko: this is actually the top first most important problem in my life
with the fact you can't put a color you like anymore
eg : #5500FF

I just came up with a brilliant idea. If you insist on having our layer menu and our color menus pop out over our canv.as, then give us the ability to move them around and pin them elsewhere in the remixer. That way I don't have to worry about the things I need to see being covered. The best option ever would be if I could do that and also pin the color menu so it's always visible. I really miss the color menu being always visible and easy to access.

If you guys are set on using this clusterfuck of beveled edges and mobile site support, then I guess I have to try and meet you half way. I suppose you're probably going to make the palette box big and stupid for mobile use eventually though too, yeah? :( I'm going to be sad when canv.as becomes an iphone app and the new page is covered with fat ugly mobile phone finger paint.