From: gespertino gmail com-------------- Layer Masks are essentially a secondary alpha channel which you can edit using standard paint tools (otherwise, only the eraser tool operates directly on a layer's alpha; other tools depend on your blending mode), and they are tied one per layer. QuickMask displays and allows you to see and edit GIMP's selection mask itself, also using standard paint tools. It is one per image canvas, independent of any layers and their stack or blending modes. Of course the visibility of the QuickMask on what masking color you are using vs. what colors are already in your image -- a red mask color isn't going to help if you have significant reds already in your image, say, but that's why the color is configurable. However, if your image has a wide swath of colors, you may end up having to reconfigure the mask color several times depending on what portion you're working with at the time. On the other hand, if both extremes of QuickMask's range had configurable colors, this would lessen the need to do that. And just to repeat, this idea would still support the existing behavior as either end of the range could be set fully transparent, depending on your individual process. (As a small aside, "good enough" does not mean "impossible to improve".) -- Stratadrake strata_ranger hotmail com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. |