Re: [Gimp-gui] About the "floating selection"

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi!

On 12/3/20 12:39 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-gui-list wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:20 AM Jehan wrote:
> > - When pasting on a layer mask, still make a floating selection (but
> > probably name it "Floating mask" because the name "Floating *selection*"
> > is weird anyway).
> I don't understand the workflow where editing a future mask separately
> in a whole different layer is required.
>
> If the contents of the mask need to be edited, this is done by
> displaying the mask over the drawable. There is a command for that,
> it's easy to locate.

lol did you check who sent this?

As you can guess, we kind of know this. 😉

> So if a mask is selected, paste right into the mask, enable that mask
> view mode, and edit away, then disable the mask viewing mode. End of
> story.

And then you lost the data which was behind the pasted data because of 
the merge. On the other hand, say you wanted to paste to another 
position in the mask, you can do this *before* the merge, and actually 
tweak your pasted data before merging. You can for instance refine the 
data bounds (fun stuff: make a selection while the floating layer is 
running to refine the actual pasted data). You can even transform your 
pasted data (rotate, scale, etc. all the transform tools work on the 
floating selection) without touching the existing mask.

Just make the test, and you should see what I mean.

If we drop floating layers for this one use case at least, we definitely 
lose some abilities for mask edition (well we can obviously reproduce 
them differently but far as easily). Only better workflow (as I can see 
right now) would be if there was multi-mask ability per layer (same as 
we have multi-layers).

Jehan

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