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Yours is one of these cases where the new (and somewhat controversial) save/export distinction in 2.8 is actually a good thing, since after outputting a flat JPG you find you now want to go back and update the layer composition - only to find that your JPG doesn't contain any layer composition, everything was merged into a single flat RGB surface. There's no way around it - you NEED to have saved an XCF copy of your image to record the individual layers; if you didn't, then sorry but the only thing you can do is try to recreate the layer composition from scratch again.
It is not necessarily "wrong" to export say a JPG/PNG copy of an image without saving an XCF workfile of it -- sometimes you really are finished with an image and don't need to go back and make further edits to it (and if the edits are extremely simple, like a photo crop/resize, then the amount of potential lost work may be an acceptably low risk), but if you think there's any chance of you coming back and tweaking it later, absolutely save an XCF version first. -- Stratadrake strata_ranger hotmail com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:57:15 -0500 From: ellimae288 gmail com To: opened to gmail com CC: gimp-user-list gnome org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] finding layers after file has been closed I totally understood what you both said - but I didn't know that I had to save it both ways - I only saved it, or exported it at a .jpg... Does that mean I can't recover the .xcf? On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Smith <opened to gmail com> wrote: what he said. that's what i meant when i said before that you would _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list |