Re: [Gimp-user] layers, new problem with old methods

[Donald Miller <damiller2 gmail com>]

Hello Experts

Because I started this thread, I should comment.

I once spent a year of intense image editing in photoshop. Now I
only occasionally use PS or GIMP, so esoteric capabilities
are far less important than ease of getting back into harness.
Simply combining image snippets is now easier in PS.

Keep all the features you want, but include easy startup for folks
who are not, nor want to be, experts in the software.

Regards,
 Don Miller   damiller2 gmail com
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 7:09:00 AM, you wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 20:21 -0500, Steve Kinney wrote:
> [...]
> >  You can only do two things with a float:  Make it a new layer by
> > using the 'add layer' command, or use the 'anchor' command to merge
> > it down into whatever layer or mask was already selected when the
> > float was pasted into the image.

> I'm sure you know this, but for others I'll add that this is not the
> whole picture - there's lots more that you can do with a floating
> selection:
> . erase parts of it (it has an alpha channel)
> . move it
> . draw on it
> . use levels/curves
> . smile upon it lovingly :-)

> Of course, you can do these things with a layer too.

> Liam