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> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 19:02:53 +0100 > From: admin game-point net > To: strata_ranger hotmail com > CC: gimp-developer-list gnome org; gegl-developer-list gnome org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Shape layers for GIMP? > > On 08/09/2012 18:29, Richard Gitschlag wrote: > > There's a slightly faster manual way: Stroke the path onto a layer mask, > > this keeps the "shape" of the layer separate from its actual content. > > True, you still have no live preview (you have to fill inside/outside of > > selection with 0% and 100% to set the mask) linked to a path object, but > > it's non-destructive to the layer's constituent pixels. > > Destroying the constituent pixels isn't really what's taking up the > time. What's taking up the time is going through the following process: > > 1. Delete previous applied "effects layers". > 2. Modify path. > 3. Convert path to selection. > 4. Fill selection with colour. > 5. Apply inner shadow to layer. > 6. Apply inner glow to layer. > 7. Apply gradient to layer. > 8. [etc...] > > With a shape layer, assuming it had been set up already with the desired > effects, the above steps would change to the following: > > 1. Modify path. > > -- > Best regards, > Jeremy Morton (Jez) Then the issue here is not with "shaped" layers itself, but layer post-processing effects in general. From those steps I assume you're telling Photoshop that the "shadow" and "glow" are live effects that Photoshop applies for you automatically, and re-applies whenever you change the path source. GIMP indeed can not do that and probably won't be able to for some time. Otherwise, the fastest GIMP steps I can come up for managing a layer "clipping path" are this: 1 - Create desired path shape. 2 - Path to selection. 3 - Add layer mask, initialized with selection. Then if/when you need to change the layer shape, you simply: 1 - Modify path object. 2 - Same path to selection. 3 - Delete layer mask. 4 - Add layer mask, initialized with selection. This does not include other effects, of course, only the layer shape itself. (And perhaps we really need a command to reinitialize the layer mask. I spot no easy way of telling GIMP to copy from selection mask channel to layer mask channel...) -- Stratadrake strata_ranger hotmail com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. |